Everyone fell silent upon hearing this.
Luna, Joshua, and even Charles stared at Rosalyn with wide eyes.
Finally, Joshua was the first to regain his composure.
"How...could Nikki have managed to get her hands on a drug you invented?"
Logically speaking, neither Rosalyn nor Charles had even known of Lucy being alive until the day
before, so how could they know who Nikki was, much less allow Nikki to obtain a drug that Rosalyn
formulated? How could Nikki have gotten her hands on this?
"Tused to have a friend..."
Rosalyn sighed and began to explain, "
This happened a long, long time ago, but one day, one of my doctor -friends got in touch with me and
told me he had a patient who was so devastated about her husband's passing that she suffered a
miscarriage.
"Even though this patient of his had adopted a child not long after, she was depressed for a long time
and kept wanting to take her life.
"Besides that, at one point, her health began to deteriorate, so she became even more determined to
kill herself because she didn't think her life was worth living anymore.
"There had been many occasions in the past when this woman begged my friend for help, hoping that
he'd be able to give her some medications to help end her misery..."
Rosalyn let out another sigh.
"Thankfully, my friend was a good doctor and didn't prescribe her any dangerous or illicit drugs that
would make her suicide attempt a success.However, he still could not talk this woman out of her plans,
so he got in touch with me in hopes that I'd be able to help him formulate a drug that'll put the drinker to
sleep for a short period.
"He had been planning to lie to this woman, claiming that this drug was a poison that would kill her in
seven days, thereby allowing her to get her things in order before she passed.
"At that time, my friend insisted to me that this woman wasn't a cold-hearted person.Instead, he just
wanted to use this to make her realize how much her death would impact her children.
"He was even prepared to send this woman to the hospital as soon as she went into her coma, where
she would be treated allowed to rest.Because of this, he'd call her every day to check whether she had
taken the drug or not, but...in the end, this woman willingly gave up on her plans to commit suicide and
never took the drug."
Luna immediately bit her lip after hearing this story.
She knew who the woman in this story was, but...this was too much of a coincidence.She could not
believe that the doctor who looked after Lucy had been a friend of Rosalyn's.
It was unbelievable how intricately these two women's lives were weaved together, and yet, they had
never met each other at all.
Not only that, but Rosalyn never knew that this suicidal patient was, in fact, Lucy.
At the thought of this, Luna instinctively turned to glance at her father.
Charles was staring at Rosalyn, his brows knitted in a frown.
Perhaps he, too, was finding this a little hard to believe.
Rosalyn curled her lips into a bitter smile.
"I've always kept in touch with this old friend of mine, but I never asked him too much about his
work...so I never expected the drug I formulated would have fallen into Lucy's hands."
She let out a sigh and added, "I can't help thinking that if I had been a little more curious and asked him
some more details about this patient and her condition...things would've turned out entirely different."
A glimmer of regret flashed through Rosalyn's eyes as she said this.Charles sighed and quickly pulled
Rosalyn into his arms.
"This isn't your fault at all; you don't have to blame yourself for this."
Rosalyn was always like this.
As long as something bad happened that had even remotely anything to do with her, she would
constantly blame herself and tell herself how things could have been different if she had done more.
She would take responsibility for everyone else's actions and try her best to help share everyone's
burdens.
It was as though in her mind, nothing mattered more than other people's needs.
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