The story of Arthur Griffith frantically pleading for a doctor in the snow, only for Natalie to appear and save his wife and child, had already gone viral. The mother and son were safe.


    The news went viral, bing a trending topic and sessfully overshadowing the buzz about Joanna''s award.


    Joanna probably never imagined that the car crash she''d arranged to stop Natalie from getting Susan to the hospital would backfire so spectacrly.


    Instead of hurting Natalie, it suppressed her own fame and turned Natalie into a hero doctor, praised by everyone.


    Meanwhile, Joanna, having been exposed to the freezing ocean, was now lying in a hospital bed with an IV drip, her frail body recovering.


    Sebastian looked at Natalie and exined, "Natalie, there''s no need to investigate. Joanna''s people did this. She was behind what happened to Susan. Sean found the people who took Susan in the underground parking garage, but they spotted him. That''s why they took him, too—to silence him."


    Natalie took a deep breath. Joanna''s brazen kidnapping and attempted murder were only possible because Sebastian endlessly indulged her.


    She scoffed, "So? What''s your point? Are you trying to get Susan to forgive Joanna for what she did?"


    Sebastian gave a bitterugh. It seemed nothing he said would ever make her trust him again.


    "Natalie, I''ve already exined about the design drafts. I never gave them to her. As for what she did today, I won''t go easy on her. But it''s not as simple as we think. She has powerful people protecting her, and she was with me at the time. She can deny everything, and the two men who took Sean will surely take the fall for it all."


    Natalie stared at him, saying nothing.


    But the suffering Susan had endured...


    Just as the thought crossed her mind, Sebastian''s low voice cut in. "I already threw Joanna into the ocean. I made her suffer everything Susan went through."


    Natalie remained silent. She turned to Susan. "Susan, you just took your medicine. Get some sleep."


    Susan replied, "Okay, I''m fine, don''t worry about me."


    "Alright." Natalie then left the room.


    Sebastian followed her out. In an empty corridor, he blocked her path.


    Natalie was on her way to see Hailey Lawson. Seeing Sebastian in her way, she frowned. "Is there anything else, Mr. Griffith?"


    "Is Susan alright?" he asked.


    Natalie shook her head. "She''s fine. Just sick from the cold, she''s on an IV drip."


    Sebastian rxed. That woman, Joanna, was truly vicious.


    They looked at each other, and a heavy silence fell between them.


    Sebastian was the first to speak. "Natalie..."


    But her icy gaze made the words die on his lips.


    "I have things to do," Natalie said.


    "I''ll wait for you. We can go back together," he offered.


    Natalie shook her head. "Don''t..."


    She wanted to say she would never return to his ce again, but the image of her brother''s toying smile shed in her mind, and she held her tongue.


    "You should go. Don''t wait for me. As for Joanna, with you protecting her, can''t touch her right now. But one day, i watch you both fall into hell together."


    Wicked people always get what''sing to them.


    She refused to believe that a venomous woman like Joanna could live a long, happy


    life.


    She shot Sebastian a defiant re.


    The gesture made him chuckle, but


    a deep sadness settled in his heart.


    The Natalie who once


    d eyes only


    for him, the Natalle who had fought


    so hard to save his life, now wished him dead.