A Replacement Bride

Chapter 87

"Professor Muller…" Joaquin furrowed his brows as he looked at Theodore. Just as Joaquin was about to ask Theodore something, Theodore's phone rang. After answering the phone, he frowned as he reminded Beatrice to cooperate and to receive the treatment. He then left hurriedly without speaking to Joaquin.

Beatrice glared at Theodore hatefully as she was furious at him for taking Katherine's side even when she was badly injured. What's so good about her? Why is everyone around me taking her side?

The jealous Beatrice pretended to groan in pain when she saw the distracted Joaquin. Hearing that, he snapped out of his daze and turned over to look at her. As he looked at her painful expression, he thought that her condition had worsened and immediately pressed the call button. Soon, Wesley was seen rushing into the room.

Seeing that, Beatrice hated how Joaquin started caring less about her ever since he was engaged to Katherine. She was mad at him for not making Katherine come over to treat her injury when she was badly wounded. She really couldn't fathom what went wrong as she had planned meticulously to fake the car crash, but in the end, the car crash happened, rendering her badly injured. The thought of it made her blood boil.

"Johdy…" She was interrupted by his phone's ringtone. With that, he took his phone out, and his expression changed the moment he looked at it. He turned around and greeted Wesley before leaving the room without hearing what she wanted to say.

"Johdy…" She was stunned and looked at him with disbelief, as she couldn't believe that he had actually left her alone when she was already badly injured.

She became hysterical and started screaming while throwing a pillow at Welsey, who was checking her injury. "Get out! I don't need you to pretend like you care, and I don't need you to treat me! Get out now!"

Wesley, whose head was hit by the pillow, frowned and was irritated as he looked at her grimace. He glanced at her coldly before leaving hurriedly with her medical chart in hand. Beatrice, who was left alone in the room, was hysterical and threw a tantrum as she couldn't feel her lower body. She was anxious and mad because Theodore refused to help her.

On the other hand, Theodore headed straight to the research institute after leaving the hospital. Unfortunately, he bumped into Katherine at the entrance, and both of them seemed glum.

"Kathy, I…" he muttered. The leakage of experimental data this time round was a serious blow to them as originally, they were preparing to have their research patented, especially the experimental medicine that they were working on this time round. However, they did not expect that something as horrible as a data leakage would happen.

"It's not really your fault, so you don't have to apologize to me first. What's the current situation?" Katherine asked as she pressed on her forehead. This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

"This time around, the leaked data was obtained by SQ Laboratory in Somar, and they have been researching that particular reagent as well. They managed to get their hands on all of our experimental data and samples of our reagent. I'm afraid…" Theodore seemed worried.

"Samples of the reagent?" Katherine stopped walking.

"It's my fault." Theodore apologized.

Katherine took a deep breath before both of them entered the meeting room. All of the researchers who participated in the experimental drug test were present. All of them had their heads down and had

guilty looks on their faces.

After taking a seat, Katherine went straight to the point and asked, "Can someone explain why there is data leakage? And how did they get their hands on the reagent?"

The Sa-1 reagent was provided by Laboratory 3 in Fontan, and all of the quantities were strictly controlled. On top of that, Theodore had also imposed strict control whereby it would only be retrieved if they had to use it on their patients. However, this was a severe incident as their samples were handed over to their competitor. Everyone in the room looked at each other without speaking a word, and no one admitted to the mistake.

Katherine waited calmly for an answer while taking her phone apart and assembling it into a microcomputer. She was retrieving the data and surveillance records in front of everyone. While waiting for the results, she lifted her gaze and looked at them. "We will give you a chance if you voluntarily admit to it. But if I was the one who found out who did it, it would bring about great consequences."

Katherine usually looked very easy-going and easy to get along with, but when she got serious, it made everyone shudder. Especially the daunting murderous aura that she exuded, which gave people goosebumps.

"Miss Cornell, we really don't know how it happened. We believe that none of us would leak the data intentionally." Dina got onto her feet and made a comment that represented the feelings of everyone present.

Hearing that, Katherine glanced at her before looking at the progress of the data download, and it was already at 99%. The culprit would soon be revealed. Since no one admitted to it, she didn't see the point of questioning them, as it would just be a waste of time without having the evidence on hand. The last 1% took around ten minutes to be downloaded, and after looking at the results, Katherine raised

her brows surprisedly and looked over at Theodore. Based on the result that she had generated, it showed that both the data and the samples were Theodore's doing.

"All of you can leave now. Professor Muller, please stay back for a chat." Katherine swiftly disassembled the microcomputer and assembled it back to a phone before placing it on the table.

The other researchers stared at each other before leaving the meeting room. Theodore could tell that Katherine already knew who the culprit was from the looks on her face. Although it was all within his expectation, he felt suffocated.

His face was pale as a sheet as he sat on the chair, and it took him a while to confess to her. "I think it is Beatrice. I never expected her to do something like that, but I expected as much when I received a phone call about the data leakage."

"Nevermind. Actually, I amended the data that all of you had. It would be useless for them even though they managed to get a hold of it. As to the reagent, no one would be able to get it easily without my consent." She shook her head and stopped talking as she looked at the disappointed Theodore.

Whether Beatrice was the one who did it or not didn't matter anymore. Before this, Katherine had implanted the Trojan virus, which had a self-destruct program in everyone's computer. Once the leaked data file was opened or duplicated, the self-destruction program would be activated. Not only will the original data be destroyed, but it will also destroy all the data on the other party's computer.

"Professor, you should arrange for Beatrice's amputation soon." Katherine, who had walked over to the exit, suddenly paused her steps and reminded him.

Hearing that, the weary Theodore nodded and made a call when he was out of the room after Katherine left.