"I am not sure yet. I don't know when things will end. I will dine with them next time."
Winnie did not tell him the specific time she would leave, nor did she accept the invitation to dinner.
She wanted to leave without being disturbed by Brian.
"Last night..."
"Two kids are outstanding, those parents are jealous."
Winnie interrupted the words of Brian.
She would not dwell on the past.
"Winwin..."
"I can't see clearly here. I'll go to the other side."
Brian wanted to explain what happened last night, but Winnie kept a distance from him.
It was Monday, Oscar and Penny went to the hospital to see a doctor.
At Penny's request, they took her previous cases and went to another hospital. Penny hoped that it
could give a different examination result.
She knew it was a long shot, but she was hoping against hope.
After a morning of examination and the results of the first two examination, the doctor finally came to a
conclusion.
"The results given by these two hospitals are unquestionable and indeed it is advanced cancer."
The doctor's answer was undoubtedly another sentence of death for Penny and her hope was
completely extinguished.
"Doctor, can I have surgery?"
Penny showed her panic.
"Yes, but..."
The doctor could not go on. The next words were a fatal blow to the patient, which was cruel.
"Just tell me, Doctor. I can take it and I'm prepared."
Penny knew the reason for the doctor's hesitation, she knew she could accept it.
Still hesitating, the doctor looked up at Oscar standing behind Penny.
"You can tell her, doctor, she knows her illness better than anyone."
Oscar was helpless, he could not lie to Penny at this moment.
"Well, surgery and chemotherapy are feasible, depending on the patient's own wishes. But you've got a
lot of spread, and surgery to remove just one organ is useless. And you're not going to be able to
handle it if you're not feeling well in the chemotherapy."
"That is to say there is a very high risk of surgery, and it may leave you with less time than conservative
treatment. And you may die in the surgery."
The doctor was afraid the patient could not bear it, so he did not tell her the worst possibility.
"I suggest conservative treatment based on my understanding on your condition. Your pain-sensing
nerves aren't sensitive, so the pain is not obvious to you, so you don't have as much suffering as
others, and you can live a bit longer."
"Just treat it conservatively, be optimistic and you'll live longer."
The doctor gave the same advice as the other two hospitals.
Penny was completely hopeless, that was to say, she could only wait for death.
She had no idea how she got out of the hospital, let alone how she got home. Now she was in her own
bed, and she still could not shake off the fear of death.
She was gonna die. She had run out of life before she was thirty.
She still had a lot of things to do, she had not defeated Winnie yet, she could not die in this way.
What should she do?
Winnie said goodbye to the two kids and then drove directly to her company.
After arranging her work, she hurried to the police station, so she did not have lunch.
"This program has been hacked. It will take some time."
Winnie said while operating, and got herself involved into the work. But without lunch, her stomach was
growling.
"Didn't you have lunch?"
Officer Lee asked Winnie.
"No, I will eat tonight."
Winnie was sure she could hold on.
"Aren’t you going tonight? Do you have time for dinner?"
Officer Lee knew where Winnie was going and what time her plane was in the evening.
"That depends on when this task can be completed, if I can finish early, I can have dinner in the
canteen before I go to the airport. Otherwise, I'll have to eat dinner on the plane."
Winnie had her plan, but she did not know what she would encounter during the operation, she was not
sure when she would finish.
"Ok, seize your time."
Officer Lee shut his mouth and didn't bother her anymore.
Thankfully, the virus was not as complex as Winnie thought, so she had solved it before dinner.
"I can have dinner now. I haven't had food in the canteen for a long time. I really miss it."
Winnie completed her task, and in the process, Brian had not showed up, so she was relaxed.
"I'll have the food delivered to your office. I want to talk to you."
Officer Lee said and got someone to get food for them from the canteen, and then he went to Winnie's
office with Winnie.
"You want to tell me about Richard?"
Winnie was smart and she could guess what Officer Lee wanted to tell her.
"Yes, but there is still no news from Richard. I want to talk about Penny's abnormal behavior.”
"She discreetly looked for the camera in the house before she made a phone call. That means she
knows we had cameras in place, but she failed to find them."
"But she still went outside. There are no cameras outside, but we found some video of her outside."
“Of course she couldn't be heard, we just saw her make a hurried call with the nanny's phone, but we
don't monitor her phone so we don't know what she said.”
Officer Lee told the story of the day.
"Who did she call?"
Winnie think it is very simple to find out.
"Thomas."
Officer Lee answered without hesitation.
"Thomas again? What is there between them?"
Winnie frowned, puzzled.
She did not know Thomas well, only that Brian and Stella did not get along well. So she did not know
what was going on between him and Penny.
"I don’t know, we have checked Thomas when he went to the prison to see Penny, but nothing was
suspicious. Now Thomas appeared again, and Penny called him secretly, it proved that there was
something wrong."
"We checked Thomas's phone records, and they had no other calls expect for this."
Officer Lee told her the general situation, which confused Winnie.
"Then carry out in-depth investigation on Thomas."
Winnie gave her suggestion, and it would be Officer Lee to make the decision.
"We do not dare to investigate further for fear of alerting him."
As Soon as Officer Lee finished speaking, lunch was brought in by his colleague.
"Officer Chambers, let’s eat first, otherwise you will run out of time."
Two men sat down to eat.
"Well, don't mind the rest of it. See if you can find a way to put a hidden camera outside Penny's house,
so that she will have no secrets and we won’t miss information."
Officer Lee knew it was useless to say that to Winnie, for she needed to go to school. He just wanted
her to help install the cameras.
"Yes, but not today."
Winnie stopped eating and began to think of a way.
"Officer Lee, I'll ask Oscar to find a way to take Penny out and get the nanny away. Then you let our
colleagues go in and install it."
Winnie felt it was the fastest way, or it would delay for a long time if she did not when she came back.
Some important information would be lost during this period of time.
"Ok, tell me when you contact Oscar, I will be ready."
Two people settled things down before they quietly had dinner.
"Officer Lee..."
Winnie wanted to ask Officer Lee for help, but at that hour, Finn came in.
"Director Poole."
"Director Poole."
Both of them greeted Finn.
"You haven’t left yet?"
Finn asked Winnie.
"Soon. I was just about to ask Officer Lee to take me to the airport before you came in."
Winnie raised her request to Officer Lee.
But before Officer Lee could respond, Finn had already made an answer.
"I'll send you there. I'm off duty."
"Thank you."
Winnie smiled, no matter who sent her, it was good that she did not drive herself to the airport.
She didn't want to give Brian another chance to pick her up.
On the way to the airport, Finn drove steadily, and there was soft music playing in the car, which did not
sound suitable for talking about business.
"Did my state last night scare you?"
Winnie mentioned what happened last night, for she felt it necessary to explain with Finn.
"No, but I am surprised. I didn't expect you to cry, I thought you were tough."
Finn wanted to know why Winnie cried, but he could not ask about her privacy.
"I am sorry, but I am a woman, I have difficult time too. Do you think I am a man?"
Winnie felt presumptuous to cry in front of Finn. She felt that Women had the right to cry.
"You are a beautiful woman, even if I am blind, I can’t regard you as a man."
Finn said jokingly, so that Winnie would not be embarrassed because of that happened last night.
"Thank you. I am indeed a woman, but I cannot take the title of a beautiful woman."
"Something happened last night, and I was sad. It was your fault, by the way, or I could hold back tears
if you hadn’t lent me your shoulder."
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