“Celeste!” When Isolde heard the door locking, despair flashed across her eyes. She had an important surgery to do. However, Celeste locked her in. Isolde suspected that Celeste was trying to ruin her career.
Isolde began to negotiate with Celeste. “Listen to me. I have an important surgery to perform. So could you please let me
out?
“After I finish this surgery, I’ll return to this warehouse to repay everything you’ve endured last Saturday. Is that okay?” Celeste was unmoved by Isolde’s begging. She stood at the door and asked Wesley, “Do you have the remote controlling this warehouse?”
Wesley answered, “There’s no remote control for the air conditioner in this warehouse. There’s only a switch. It’s in the morgue. Do you want to take a look?”
Celeste grunted and followed Wesley to the morgue. A chill instantly enveloped her body when he pushed open the door. Celeste shivered from the cold. “What’s the temperature in this morgue?”
“It should be around -4°F. Why?”
“Nothing. It’s just… I feel especially cold in here!”
The morgue was considered the coldest place in the hospital, so it was normal for her to feel cold.
Wesley rubbed his arm. He turned on the cold air in the morgue. “This is the switch for the air conditioners in the morgue and the warehouse. This one is for the morgue, and this one is for the warehouse.”
Celeste looked at the air–conditioner button before her and asked Wesley, “When will Isolde’s surgery be performed?”
“Around nine o’clock in the morning.”
Celeste nodded and said, “It’s only about ten minutes before that time. I’ll go with you to perform the surgery on her patient. “But before you go, inform the hospital staff that everyone is forbidden to release Isolde before 3 pm.”
Wesley agreed and went upstairs to inform everyone according to Celeste’s instructions.
After he left, Celeste turned on the air–conditioner in the warehouse. She set the temperature to 10°F. This temperature allowed Isolde to survive for six hours without fainting.
As long as Isolde didn’t faint, the moment the warehouse door opened, she could find any man to help her with her physiological needs. Celeste was curious. Last Saturday, Marcus was the one who found her, and she wondered who would notice Celeste in that warehouse.
After she went up from the basement, Celeste received a call from Marcus. She swiped to answer the call. “How did you know I got my phone back?”
“I called out of curiosity and didn’t expect you to answer. Did you go to the hospital?” Marcus knew that Celeste left her phone in the hospital. If she answered, then she had gone there to retrieve it.
“Yeah.”
“Have you started your internship at the hospital?”
“You could say that.”
When Marcus wanted to ask something, it was already nine o’clock. Wesley had prepared the patient’s cases and handed them to Celeste.
Celeste read the files and said to Marcus on the other end, “I have something to deal with here. If you have anything to say, wait for my call in the afternoon.”
“Okay.” After that, Marcus hung up Celeste’s call and continued to read his documents.
Meanwhile, Celeste put down her phone and continued reading the patient’s case in her hand. “Heart transplant and vascular tumor removal?”
Wesley nodded. “That’s right. This surgery is not easy because the location of the patient’s vascular tumor is relatively dangerous. We need to make a deep incision to reach the tumor’s location and save him.”
Celeste continued to flip through the documents in his hands. “Since this surgery is so difficult, why did you let Isolde do it? “Do you think she can perform this surgery wit
Successfully unlocked! Originally, Wesley was entrusted with the surgery. However, the patient’s family did not trust him because he was old. They feared Wesley would have problems with his eyesight and made a grave mistake. Hence, Isolde was entrusted with the
task.
This was because she was his disciple and had undergone such surgery before. In addition, with him helping her, her
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chances of success in the surgery would be much higher than his.
Wesley didn’t mind with such an arrangement. To him, as long as the surgery was successful, it was fine.
Wesley returned to his senses and replied, “The patient’s family requested Isolde to do it.”
The patient’s family seemed to trust Isolde, and Celeste smiled coldly. “This surgery is challenging, even for me. If you let Isolde do it, the patient could die!
“After all, he’s old and is more sensitive to anesthesia. If we can’t successfully remove his tumor and transplant his heart before the anesthesia dissipates, he’s likely to die.”
When Wesley heard Celeste’s words, he gulped in fear. Even she considered the surgery to be challenging. He could only imagine how big the risk was to perform the surgery.
“I’m curious. How confident are you with the success of this surgery?”
Celeste thought and replied, “About 60% at most.” This was because the patient’s age and current condition. In addition, she had to avoid using certain drugs and anesthetics.
The complexity of the surgery had greatly increased. If the patient was younger, Celeste had 80% confidence the surgery would be successful. But for this one, she only had 60%.
It was not a problem to keep the patient alive for the time being, but it was difficult for Celeste to predict if he would wake up after the surgery.
After Wesley heard what Celeste said, his expression instantly became solemn. “Promise me that you’ll protect this man’s life no matter what because he’s important!
“If anything happens to him in our hospital, everyone in our hospital will be buried with him.”
Every patient would sign an agreement with the hospital before performing the surgery. The agreement stated that the hospital would take full responsibility if a problem occurred with the patient after treatment.
Of course, they must conduct a full observation before concluding it was the hospital’s fault. Therefore, Celeste should perform this surgery carefully to avoid a lawsuit.
Celeste closed the medical record in her hand and said, “It’s getting late. Let’s perform the surgery now. After all, from the looks of this man’s condition, he needs immediate medical attention.”
Wesley also felt the same way and could not afford to delay it anymore, so when Celeste said she would perform the surgery, he agreed without hesitation. The two went to the changing room to change their clothes before entering the operating room.
***
At that moment, in the warehouse. After being frozen for nearly half an hour, Isolde began to shiver from the cold.
“Celeste, if you want to lock me up, go ahead. But how can you turn down the air conditioner to twelve degrees Celsius? Don’t you know this temperature can kill someone in six hours?”
Hearing no response from outside, Isolde knocked on the door and said, “Celeste, I’m begging you. Can you let me out?”
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