Seeing the Professor’s number, Georgia suddenly realized something.
Back then, Emilia had asked her to help look after Aston, but with all the events surrounding her for this
while, she’d actually forgotten about it.
Had Aston come back to the country already?
Her instincts told her that Professor Lee’s call had something to do with Aston.
Georgia took her phone, went outside into the garden, and took the call.
“Hello, Professor Lee.”
“Are you done with what you’re busy with, Georgia? I saw online that Robert wasn’t dead.
Congratulations.”
Benjamin Lee’s voice was as gentle and kind as always. Georgia smiled.
“I’m almost done, Professor. I was thinking of when to talk to you about coming back to work. I’ve got a
small lab at home myself, but I don’t have a lot of large-scale lab tools here. Besides, it’s hard to
achieve anything being shut up alone. When I’ve resolved one pressing matter, I’ll come back to work.”
Hearing Georgia say that, Lee was pretty happy.
“I was worried you wouldn’t come in to work, too. But Robert’s not gone, and thinking about it, you’ll
definitely recover. Back then when I saw news of Robert’s death, I didn’t dare call to ask you if you
were willing to come back.”
The two chatted about their respective situations, and Lee finally moved on to the matter at hand.
“You know how Aston’s come back to the country, right?”
Georgia nodded.
“I know he’s come back recently, but I’ve been too busy on my end to notice which day it’d been. Is he
back at MU already?”
“I’d been happy he came back when you couldn’t, and I’d even assigned some extra tasks for him
hoping he could finish them early. But something’s been off with him ever since he came back. It’s not
that he’s not taking his experiments seriously. It’s that he’s taking them too seriously. Aston’s almost
shut himself entirely into the lab and isn’t going home at all. He’s just up and resting in the lab.
“I’d tried persuading him and telling him not to go at it so hard. Our lab doesn’t have any set objectives
anyway, and health is the most important. He wouldn’t listen at all, and I could only let him be. I can
guess at what happened to him and how he’s trying to distract himself with work. But this morning, he
hadn’t even gone in to work when the other lab staff gave me a call and said that Aston’s fainted in the
lab. He’s in hospital right now. From what the doctors say, he’s worked several all-nighters in a row.
With the weather being especially cold recently, he went and came down with the flu, so he’d lost
consciousness right then and there.
“Aside from that, the doctors also found that his stomach is acting up again. Stomach bugs are
especially serious right now, and he needs to heal up inside the hospital. I already visited him once,
and that son of a gun actually wants to leave right away and go back to experimenting in the lab. I
stopped him right away, but looking at him, I don’t think he’ll listen to me. I remember you always had a
good relationship with Aston, Georgia. You might have gotten a bit distant before, but go visit him and
persuade him, will you? Something seemed off with him ever since you two went overseas together,
and I think you might know what happened. Please talk to him. No matter what it is, he can’t hurt his
own body. He’s got a long life ahead of him.”
Professor Lee’s voice was heavy, and it seemed like he really was worried about Aston.
Emilia had expected such a result. No wonder she’d asked Georgia all that when they chatted and had
to have her look after Aston, in case he really did run himself ragged.
“Where’s his hospital ward, Professor? I’ll go see him.”
There was nothing else to do this morning, and Georgia felt like she had to see Aston and talk with him.
Not just because Emilia asked her to. Aston was her friend and now her cousin, too. She couldn’t leave
him like this.
After hanging up, Robert walked to Georgia’s side.
“Why did Professor Lee call? Is he rushing to have you back at work now?”
Georgia smiled.
“You’re half right. There’s one other thing. It’s got to do with Aston. Oh, right, Aston’s my cousin now.”
Georgia explained her mother’s relationship with Aston.
“When is his birthday? Between the two of us, who’s the elder?”
Robert suddenly asked. Georgia went speechless for a while. She actually didn’t know.
“Forget who’s the elder. Aston’s in hospital right now, let’s go meet him. It’s just right; you can go meet
him too. After all, he still hasn’t seen you after you came back from the dead.”
Georgia had Ivan look after Annie, and she drove to the hospital with Robert.
On the way, Georgia explained briefly why Aston was sick, and also talked a bit about Kayden and
Laurence.
After all, Robert still didn’t recall those things right now, and Georgia could only give a rough outline of
what had once happened.
“Speaking of it all, Laurence probably still blames me for this. Back then, I misunderstood you, got him
involved and he lost his legs. That’s why he kept trying to take revenge on me.”
Robert summarized that much from Georgia’s recollections, looking a bit guilty.
Georgia hurriedly shook her head at him.
“We’re all somewhat responsible. I feel like I owe Mr. Knight too. But we were all victims. If Emma and
Owen hadn’t lied back then about the perpetrator of the car accident, let Eden go free, and framed me
for being the person who killed your sister, all this wouldn’t have happened between the two of us, and
innocents wouldn’t have been involved. Eden is the one most to blame. Emma and Owen were only
accomplices.”
Speaking of that, Georgia spoke of another thing.
“You didn’t ask about it when I went out last night, but Sierra has already admitted to me that she’s
Emma Lane.”
When it came to Robert and Georgia’s past and relationship with Emma, Robert had only gotten a brief
understanding with his own investigation. He turned to Georgia, incredulous.
“Why did I take a liking to Emma Lane in the beginning? Even having her be my fiancé for five
years?”
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