Chapter 154


    Elise felt as if Madeline had given her a physical p with her words.


    “You girls keep chatting, I’m going to look for Dn. I’lle visit you again at night,” Noah said as he


    noticed his cue to leave. He was secretly pleased to find out that Madeline had been vying for his


    concern, as revealed by Elise just moments ago.


    Of course, his self-satisfied smirk did not go unnoticed by Madeline. She knew the douchebag was


    probably having some delusional, narcissistic thought about himself once again. Then again, there was


    no harm in letting him know how she felt. She had once loved him so much that it ended up costing a


    life. It was only natural that she had her guards up now, she told herself.


    …


    Wayne quickly approached Noah as soon as he saw his boss leaving Madeline’s room. “Sir, you


    guessed right. There was indeed a secret path at the bottom of the mountainke. Lone Wolf must


    have used that path to escape!” he informed Noah.


    “Get the special forces to search the city thoroughly. I want him alive,” Noah instructed.


    “Yes, Sir. I’ll get on it! But Sir, didn’t you say that the Lone Wolf wille for us himself if he was still


    alive? Why do we have to search him out?” Wayne asked out of curiosity. After all, the Quincy’s special


    forces was a secret operation. The Quincys never mobilized them unless it was absolutely necessary.


    For Noah to request their services, something big must have happened.


    “He has something I need. Just do as I say,” Noah responded curtly. Noticing Noah’s solemn


    expression, Wayne did not dare to poke any further. He quickly left to carry out Noah’s orders.


    Once Wayne had left, Noah took the elevator up to the top floor, where the hospital’s director’s office


    was situated. This hospital was a branch of the Imperia Community Hospital. It was a public medical


    research hospital but privately funded by affluent benefactors. Most of the patients who came here


    were either from wealthy families or had aplicated disease. Apart from the director’s office and a


    resting lounge, the rest of the top floor was upied by sophisticated medicalbs almost like the one


    that Dn Felch ran.


    Andy Jones was as passionate about medicine as Dn Felch was, but Andy was much better at


    management and innovation. Under Andy’s care, his medicalbs had produced many medical


    prodigies. He was a capable doctor himself but building an entire army of doctors who each had their


    own strengths was a much more impressive achievement. He could utilize any one of these doctors in


    different situations, and they could band together when a situation demanded for it.


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    Dn was a little envious of Andy when he first visited Andy’sb and noticed the teamwork between


    his doctors, unlike Dn who had always worked solo. However, he was not in the mood to dwell on


    his insecurities today as he had just gotten hold of Madeline’sb report. Together with Andy, they


    holed up in Andy’s office as they pored through the results of the report. As Noah entered Andy’s office,


    the two men were sitting quietly in front of aputer, looking through a screen filled with


    indecipherable numbers.


    “Dn, any update?” Noah’s voice cut through Dn’s thoughts.


    “Yes, uhh, no… Not really…” Dn mumbled dazedly as he nodded his head one moment and shook it


    the next.


    “Yes or no?” Noah huffed impatiently. “Andy, you tell me then,” he turned his head to the other man in


    front of theputer.


    “Hmm, yes and no,” Andy replied hesitantly, sharing the same opinion with Dn.


    Noah’s expression only got darker by the minute. Noticing this, Dn quickly snapped out of his stupor.


    “Noah, don’t be too worried. For now, we can at least confirm that Madeline is fine,” Dn made his


    diagnosis, but he was not speaking with his usual rxed ir.


    “Yes, Noah. There’s nothing wrong with Madeline as of now,” Andy agreed, nodding his head.


    “As of now? What does that mean?” Noah pressed.


    “ording to herb results, Madeline seems to be suffering from some kind of post-traumatic side


    effect that causes intermittent seizures. She had experienced one of these severe seizure attacks


    recently. In most cases, it would have been fatal, but her body had trace quantities of a type of drug


    that relieved the seizure,” Andy exined. “However, this drug can only be taken in small doses, and it


    only serves to relieve the seizure effects, not cure it. Once the effect of the drug wears off, the post-


    traumatic side effects will onlye back stronger. That’s why Madeline was bleeding from her nose


    and mouth, and how she ended up unconscious.


    “Post traumatic side effects? A recent seizure attack…?” Noah grew more confused and agitated as he


    listened to Andy’s exnation. Was it the time when he took Thomas away? They had been talking


    through the phone, and he had thought she finally conceded that he was right when she went silent on


    the phone. However, when he rushed over, he found himself at the scene of a car ident, with


    Madeline nowhere in sight as she was captured by Lone Wolf.


    It was him who caused Madeline to seize up while she was driving! It was him who caused her to get


    kidnapped! It was him who gave Lone Wolf the opportunity to inject her with a drug that made her


    condition worse! His heart raced as he realized the gravity of his actions, and he felt something


    bubbling in his throat. Without warning, he heaved and coughed out a huge amount of blood on the


    floor.


    “Noah!” Dn eximed in shock.


    “Sir!” Andy echoed.


    Dn rushed over to support Noah who had almost fallen over. “Noah, don’t worry. I promise you we’ll


    treat Madeline back to health no matter what it takes!” he reassured Noah out of desperation.


    Andy quickly came to their aid too. The both of them sat Noah down on the sofa and gave him some


    breathing space. Slowly, the redness in his eyes and the angry veins in his neck began to subside.


    Andy went out to theb to get some medication for Noah while Dn stayed behind, not daring to


    leave his side.


    “Dn, it was all my fault. I tried to scare her by taking Thomas away. I caused her seizure, allowing


    Lone Wolf to take her away! It was all me! I promised to make it up to her and treat her well, but I


    ended up hurting her the most…” Noah was a blustering mess. “It’s all my fault!!” he cried out, his eyes


    welling with hot tears.


    Dn Felch had only seen Noah this weak and dejected once in his life. That was the day he thought


    Madeline had died. Noah had gone through plenty of tribtions as a child, going up against his


    scheming uncles. As a result, it had hardened and detached him from most things and people.


    However, on that day five years ago, that same man had stood on the ledge of the top floor of the


    Golden Dome building, ready to meet his wife in the afterlife. If it was not for Colton’s cries, Dn was


    certain Noah would have made the jump. Today was the second time in his memory that Dn saw


    Noah in such a state. Dn held on to his arms as he sank into a pit of worry.