If Steve hadn’t been in this state, the competition might have been even more intense.
Upon hearing this, the little girl with twin ponytails looked at Paige with some surprise. How did this older sister know?
Monteo stood there, looking straight at Paige.
Paige smiled at him and bowed respectfully, “Dr. Monteo.”
Monteo definitely deserved this title. He had benefited too many people to count.
Hearing this, a hint of caution appeared in Monteo’s eyes.
Enrico also looked down at Paige with a dark expression in his eyes.
Paige felt uncomfortable being looked at like this and hastily said, “This is Dr. Monteo. He is a renowned doctor. I didn’t expect to meet him here, what a coincidence.”
“Are you sure it’s just a coincidence?”
A cold color flashed in Enrico’s eyes.
It’s over.
He’s upset again.
She quickly put her arm around his shoulders and, without regard for the situation, whispered, “I happened to meet Dr. Monteo at the mall the other day, but I didn’t even speak to him. I didn’t come here to chase after him.”
She was chasing after her husband!
“Really?”
Enrico sounded doubtful, and his face didn’t look much better.
“I swear,” she whispered.
“Then why didn’t you tell me you happened to meet him?”
Enrico put an emphasis on the word “accidental”.
Paige was about to explain when she was interrupted by the voices of the people around her.
The people gathered around her were all paying attention to the reaction to Dr. Monteo. Suddenly someone remembered, “Monteo? Isn’t he the miracle doctor who single-handedly lowered the price of the country’s sky-high drugs?”
Sheryl was even more dumbfounded. This old man is actually a miracle doctor? Then the little girl beside him really knows how to heal?
If she had just let the little girl give the candy to her grandson, would the outcome have been different?
But there are no ifs in the world, and nothing can be undone.
Seeing that everyone around him had gathered and Monteo, who didn’t want to show his true face, immediately frowned.
Seeing this, Paige quickly found the security team leader and said something to him, asking the security guards to escort Monteo away first, while she stopped the media and asked them to delete Monteo’s images.
…
It had already grown dark outside.
The lights were on in the quiet side room, and Paige and Enrico were sitting together, with Monteo sitting in front of them.
The atmosphere was particularly awkward.
Enrico sat with his arms folded, his chiseled face expressionless, his eyes deep and unruffled, but his aura betrayed him: he was not happy.
Monteo was not much better. He was obviously a little upset that he had been recognized. He must have done some kind of background check to find out what he looked like, and since he had, it meant that he was useful.
He was an old man, so what else could he be useful for? Naturally, it was his medical skills.
“Mr. and Mrs. Gustin, thank you so much, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to get out.” Monteo’s tone was a little cold.
“I don’t deserve your thanks. I was just being hasty and said the wrong thing. I’m sorry,” Paige said apologetically.
Paige’s attitude was really good, and Monteo couldn’t get angry with someone like this. He said bluntly, “I don’t know what you two are looking for me to do, but I don’t practice medicine, so you two don’t need to waste your time on me.”
Seeing that Monteo had misunderstood, Paige wanted to clarify. She looked silently at the man next to her, whose jaw was clenched in a tight arc, and the words she had on the tip of her tongue were swallowed back. “Dr. Monteo has misunderstood. It’s not me who wants to find you, it’s a friend of mine who wants to find you for help.”
She looked at the time on her phone, “He will be here soon, so please wait a moment, Dr. Monteo.”
Let Kevin handle it.
Her pursuit of her husband has been quite successful, but she can’t let it cool down.
“Fine, if you want to say it, just say it. I won’t suspect you if you use someone else’s mouth, will I?”
Enrico gave her a look, his tone flat without the slightest rise or fall.
“…”
Paige looked at him, “I really didn’t know that Monteo was here.”
“Oh.” Enrico’s reaction continued to be flat, as if he didn’t care at all.
“…”
Monteo lifted the teacup in front of him and looked at the two of them suspiciously.
Ever since he sat down, he had noticed that it seemed as if his presence had created a gap between the loving young couple. But how could it be? If he were a young man, it would be fine, but a person of such advanced years could still cause the young couple to have unnecessary misunderstandings?
Paige felt a little depressed when she saw Enrico like this. With a change of heart, she decided to give up.
Forget it, I’m already angry anyway, so I might as well solve the problem with Monteo first.
So Paige stood up from her seat and bowed respectfully to Monteo. She said solemnly, “Dr. Monteo, you can see the situation in the country. Because of the previous underreporting and deliberate disruption by the plutocrats, the epidemic has become serious. Even though strict controls are now in place, many people are still in dire straits. We urgently need a vaccine, so please come out of retirement and help us out of this domestic crisis.”
“…”
Monteo thought she had asked him for personal treatment, but never imagined it was such an important matter. His face immediately looked a lot better. “So it’s about that. Mrs. Gustin is worthy of being the figure who cleared the slums from Country A. She never forgets to care about her country and family. I was being petty.”
Hearing his voice become softer, Paige thought there was hope and looked at him with shining eyes.
Monteo raised his hand and waved it away. “However, I will not agree to this.”
“What are Monteo’s concerns? I will definitely find a way to solve it for you,” Paige said eagerly, as the team researching the vaccine really needed Monteo’s presence.
“I have been used to going it alone all my life, and I don’t like being with people, so if I have to be locked up in a research lab and work with a bunch of people I don’t know every day, it would be more difficult than death for me.”
Monteo paused and added, “However, I was also involved in the Ferris Wheel virus. If I ever develop a vaccine, I will definitely send it to The Capital first.”
Paige didn’t expect Monteo to refuse so bluntly. She frowned and said, “Dr. Monteo, everyone in the research lab has been studying the virus for a long time. If you take a look, it might be helpful in advancing the vaccine.”
“I don’t want to go.”
Monteo refused even more bluntly this time.
He just didn’t want to.
Facing such an elderly man, Paige stood there with her legs a little stiff. She had thought that it was fate for her to meet Monteo in this place.
“There is no business that cannot be done in this world, and the terms can all be negotiated.”
The man’s cool voice rang out in the quiet side hall.
Paige glanced over and saw that Enrico had lowered his arms at some point and leaned forward, his eyes staring straight at Monteo with a sense of oppression.
He actually helped her persuade Monteo?
Paige looked at him steadily, and warmth flowed in her heart.
Enrico, however, did not look at her, but only at Monteo.
“Compared to Mrs. Gustin, who is full of sincerity, Mr. Gustin is a businessman, and all he can talk about are conditions,” said Monteo, his voice a little colder. “Unfortunately, I don’t have any conditions, and I just don’t want to.”
“What if I force conditions?” Enrico sneered.
On hearing this, Monteo’s expression tightened, and he looked in the direction he had turned his head, and saw the little girl sitting on the steps in the distance with Gabriel.