Chapter 19
Theodore and Katherine came out of the hospital room shortly after and headed into the office.
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He handed her the scientific data he hadpiled recently and said, "Right now, we''ve only got one
patient in the clinical trial, so there won''t be enough statistics to determine if this medication can help
regenerate brain cells in patients who are in a vegetative state. I''m still working on getting more next-of-
kins to agree to let their loved ones participate in our research."
Katherine nodded as she flipped through the documents. "Take your time. The world will be shocked
once this medication isunched, but arge-scale promotion is unsuitable for now. Make sure you look
into everyone who agrees to the clinical trial. A single bbermouth can put you in grave danger."
They had run the test on white mice previously and gotten satisfactory results.
Alex Rosenburg, who had been in a vegetative state for three years, had woken up after they had used
the medication on him, which meant it had to be effective to some extent.
"I''ll be in Hovington for a while, so give me a call if you need anything," Katherine said as she handed
the papers back to Theodore.
Seeing that she was leaving, he grumbled, "Are you actually going to marry into the Levisays? Why
bother with the Cornells when you can do more good for mankind instead?"
He could not understand why Katherine insisted on personally taking out the trash that was the rest of
her family when she could easily have someone else do the dirty work for her.
"You don''t get it," she said with a dry smile. There was no describing the anger that came over her
each time she remembered her mother''s agonizing death. Everything Jorge had stolen from her mother
and the Olsens, she would make him pay for it in kind.
"I''ll get going now," Katherine said. She nced at her watch and figured Rosemary would be home by
now. She smirked and waved goodbye to Theodore, then headed out of the research institute.
An hourter, the ride she had booked through an app pulled up outside the Cornell Residence, and
she disembarked.
As she looked up at the brightly-lit architecture in front of her, a wicked smile curled on her lips.
Presently, things in the Cornell household were in a mess. An angry grimace twisted Lisa''s features.
Abandoning her image as the ever-loving and demure housewife, she looked as if she wanted nothing
more than to tear Katherine into shreds right now.
Katherine walked in with her hands in her pockets, looking perfectly insouciant.
The butler was holding his breath as he appraised her anxiously and could not help fearing for her
safety.
"Katherine, I can''t believe you have the nerve toe back here!" Lisa snarled the moment she saw
Katherine walk through the door. Her nostrils red as she marched up to the girl and made to p her.
"You might want to reconsider pping me, Lisa. I''m the youngdy of this family, and I''ll be thedy of
the Levisays household soon." Katherine did not dodge as she said this breezily. She even turned her
cheek as though to challenge Lisa, whose hand froze in mid-air, just inches away from striking.
Lisa glowered at Katherine viciously. She wished she could quarter the girl, but Katherine was
untouchable now that she was about to marry into the Levisays.
"Why would you do something like that to Rosemary? She goes all out to throw you a weing party,
and this is how you thank her? How could you be so evil, Katherine?!" Lisa snapped, trembling with
anger. Now that hitting Katherine was out of the question, she resorted to hurling abuse at her instead.
Lisa could not even imagine how terrified Rosemary had been when she nearly got vited at a ce
like that.
For years, she had made sure that Rosemary was brought up like a youngdy of nobility. The girl was
going to marry into an elite family one day and be the matriarch, but not if she was ruined!
"What did I do to her? Has there been some sort of misunderstanding, Lisa?" Katherine feigned
innocence, though she was secretly cheering when she saw how outraged Lisa was.
There were few things in life she enjoyed more than watching Lisa being rendered helpless against her.
"Misunderstanding? Oh, no. Don''t try to fool me. You were the one who gave Rosemary that wine even
though you knew it wasced—" As though realizing that she had slipped up, Lisa quickly paused and
bit her own tongue.
She shot Katherine a sharp look and snapped, "Regardless, you shouldn''t have abandoned your sister
in a den of vices like that in the first ce! What if something had happened to her?"
"Den of vices, you say?" Katherine blinked. An innocent expression etched itself upon her pretty face
as she pointed out unassumingly, "Lisa, it was Rosemary who brought me there in the first ce. I
couldn''t possibly have forced her into bringing me there, could I? Also, she was the one who insisted
on downing that wine. Did she tell you I made her drink it?"
Lisa choked on her own rage, her words dying on the tip of her tongue.
Katherine was right. Rosemary was the one who had asked her out to the bar, and the former had
initially rejected the invitation at first. Now that thetter had gotten herself into trouble, she had no
reason to me anyone, and certainly not Katherine, but herself.
Lisa could not understand how anyone could be so infuriating. Katherine was neither passive-
aggressive nor hostile, but the effortless way in which she shot down the usations directed at her
was agitating all the same.
As things were, Lisa had nothing on Katherine. She had to swallow her pride and admit defeat.
This was the first time since bing the matriarch of the family that she was put in her ce. Gritting
her teeth, she glowered at Katherine''s smug face, but she held back her anger in a bid to keep the
Levisays out of this.
"Why did youe home sote anyway? It''s unbing for a youngdy like you to stay out sote,
especially since you''ll marry into an important family soon. You wouldn''t want the Levisays to call you
out on your poor behavior, would you?" Lisa said snarkily, picking on the tiniest of Katherine''s ws
after losing out on the previous argument.
Katherine shed her a goody-two-shoes smile and replied solemnly, "You''re right. I''ll be going up to
my room now. I promise I won''t stay out sote in the future. I shall stay at home until the day I get
married."
Lisa looked as if she had swallowed a bug. She was trying to imply that Katherine had questionable
behavior, but thest thing she expected was for the girl to be so congenial about it. It was as if Lisa
had shot herself in the foot.
A yawn escaped Katherine as she happily marched up the stairs.
Not two minutester, Rosemary''s shrill cry filled the house. "Argh! Katherine, what the hell are you
doing?"
Katherine checked her nailszily as she looked at Rosemary with mild disinterest. "Dad told me I
could pick whichever room I liked in the house. I rather like this one, and I''m used to it too. Go pick
another room for yourself."
Rosemary nched as she gaped at Katherine incredulously. "You want me to give up my room for
you? Did you forget that I''m the real youngdy of the house? You have no right to make me do this!"
"Oh, really? In that case, you can take my ce and be inws with the Levisays. It''s Miss
Cornell they want, not some secondary heiress like me," Katherine drawled in a bored voice as she
assessed Rosemary with a raised brow.
At once, Rosemary felt as if there was a lump in her throat that she could not get rid of.
She ultimately gave up her room even though it had the best lighting and venttion in the house. She
knew she did not have a choice after Katherine had put her foot down on the matter.
Katherine''s changed, Rosemary recognized bitterly. She''s no longer that naive girl from five years ago.