Chapter 259

Kate slept straight through to 5:00 pm. Malcolm, who had kept contradicting Valerie earlier, insisted on staying because he wanted to know the truth. He refused to believe that a plain little pill could bring down a three-day high fever to normal levels in under 20 minutes. The moment Kate woke up, Malcolm and his assistant checked her thoroughly. Then, his expression went slack when he stared at the bloodwork results. He'd assumed that the fast-acting fever cure was a banned drug loaded with hormones. But based on the data in hand, all of Kate's metrics were rebounding at a stunning pace. Malcolm wasn't the type to cling to a dead certainty. With the truth right before him, continuing to argue would only make him look unreasonable. "Ms. Collins, I owe you an apology. Even though you're young, your grasp of pharmacology puts me to shame," he said. He had to admit that it was nothing short of a medical miracle for a patient to recover this much in half a day. Valerie nodded. "Apol