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“Dr. Wilson, congratulations. Before the surgery, I was shortsighted. I owe you an apology.”Associate Director Morales exhaled lightly, his expression grave.“Come now, Associate Director Morales—everyone has the right to their own judgment. That’s not a fault.”Joseph smiled as he spoke.“I shouldn’t have underestimated you. You’ve already worked too many miracles.”“I hope you go further and higher from here.”Morales shook Joseph’s hand again.“Thank you.”With a faint smile on his face, Joseph accepted another round of applause from the room.He remained at the hospital a while longer. When Peggy woke, he briefly explained the situation to her, made sure she was stable, and only then left with Fiona and Lindsay Anderson.“By the way, didn’t Heidi say yesterday she’d swing by?”They had stopped by the parking area when Joseph turned to ask Fiona.“Her? Heartless as ever. She texted this morning that she was off shopping with two close friends, and I haven’t heard from her since.”
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“How many years of practice does it take to move that fast?”“Who trained this young man? His technique is astonishingly seasoned.”“With skill like that, he shouldn’t be a nobody.”The discussion refused to die down.“Professor Wilson has cleared the hardest hurdle,” Director Lorraine said at last, visibly relieved. “As long as he proceeds by the book from here, we should be fine.”“I told you he would,” Tristan Flores said, a bit smug. “He never takes on a case unless he’s sure.” He knew Joseph’s true prowess—most here had never seen it up close. Tristan had, more than once; his confidence didn’t come cheap.“He actually did it,” Deputy Director Morales murmured, watching Joseph transition smoothly into the second phase. His expression had shifted; he looked uncomfortable, but he held himself together.“To think he’s that young,” he muttered after a beat.“Deputy Director, Professor Wilson won’t hold anything against you,” Lorraine said gently. “He’s an exceptional young man.”Moral
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At Morales’s challenge, those behind him lowered their heads, faces tight with embarrassment.They couldn’t do it; if they could, Joseph wouldn’t be needed.For a moment, no one had an answer for the deputy director’s barbed remarks.“Deputy Director Morales, there’s always a higher peak,” one expert said at last. “We may not be able to, but we believe in this young Professor Wilson. His ability is beyond dispute.”“Exactly. Just because we can’t doesn’t mean no one can. The world needs those who dare to push the frontier—and Professor Wilson is one of them.”“Well said. To be boldly prudent—worthy of praise.”The murmurs swelled. Morales’s tone had always grated. Even the mildest among them couldn’t help but push back now.“Deputy Director, the patient and Professor Wilson have both chosen to proceed,” said a suited administrator in a measured, authoritative voice. “Let’s watch and see.”Morales fell silent, though his expression showed he remained unconvinced.On the screen, Joseph’
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“Because he’s a doctor,” Charles Martin said at last, after a long silence.“You’re a doctor too. Everyone here is. What makes him different?” Peggy asked, still puzzled.“Joseph is a true physician. He treats medicine as a calling and holds ethics as the heart of a doctor’s character,” Charles replied. “He won’t let personal grievances with me make him hold back on your care.”Hearing that, Peggy managed a wan smile. “If even his rival respects him, that says it all. Professor Wilson must be a good man.”“More or less,” Charles said with a nod.“Peggy, your surgery starts at two. We’ll take you to prep now,” a head nurse announced as she entered, glancing over Peggy with a steady, professional calm. “It’s going to be a long operation. Is there anything you need to do first?”“I’m ready,” Peggy answered. “From here on, I’ll follow your lead.”At her word, the head nurse signaled several nurses to wheel Peggy’s bed out. Charles followed close behind.Meanwhile, Joseph was already in th
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Before long, the group filed into the elevator.Exiting on the ward floor, they followed Dr. Forrest to Peggy’s room.By now Peggy had been transferred to a standard ward, shared with two other patients.When Joseph and the others entered, the two patients and their families could only stare, stunned.Anyone who came to Nova First Hospital had some sense of which doctors carried real weight—who among them were nationally renowned.And the team trailing behind Joseph today was practically a roll call of the most respected orthopedic specialists at Nova First Hospital. It was an impressive lineup by any measure.Yet all these luminaries were clustered behind a young man named Joseph, and that alone spoke volumes about his standing.Peggy, lying in her bed, was equally taken aback. Had something dire happened to her? Why else would so many doctors show up?What’s more, most of them looked seasoned and formidable—exactly the sort of elder physicians called in for thorny cases.But the one
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Stunned by the sudden kiss, Joseph stood rooted to the spot, watching Heidi walk away with a vacant gaze. It was a long while before he came back to himself.He touched the spot on his cheek where her lips had brushed, a faint, rueful smile tugging at his mouth.Some things truly lay beyond his control. His relationship with Heidi, by the looks of it, was drifting toward a place he couldn’t steer.And from the way Heidi had interacted with Mason Alvarez and Alice these last two times, they clearly had reached some sort of understanding among themselves.After lingering in a daze for a moment, Joseph finally returned to the villa.The next day, just after eleven, he headed out after lunch to pick up Lindsay Anderson.Peggy’s surgery was not a simple procedure.Even a straightforward operation required advance preparation at the hospital.He had reminded Lindsay Anderson and Fiona of this the day before.When Joseph arrived downstairs at Lindsay Anderson’s building, she came down almost
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