Chapter 78 The Dinner

After receiving a positive response, Sophia thanked Lila profusely and turned to leave. Left alone in her office, Lila stared at the steaming crab cakes on her desk but realized she had lost her appetite. Her gut was telling her that something might happen tonight. As soon as Sophia rounded the hallway corner, her ingratiating smile faded, replaced by a cold, calculating sneer. That new doctor was barely in her 20s. What right did she have to steal all the attention the moment she arrived? The director of the hospital was clearly favoring her, and Sophia, who had spent half her life clawing her way through this hospital, was now supposed to submit to this nobody. Over her dead body! Tonight was the perfect opportunity to deal with the newcomer. Gerald Simmons, the company president partnering with the hospital, was infamous for his lecherous ways. If that pretty face of Lila's could be traded for a deal, Sophia could get the job done and ruin Lila in the process. Then, she'd