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. But it wasn't helping. Her cance
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as I thought hard. There had to be something e
re this terrible disease hit. I remembered her smiling face from when
o pale and still, I knew we were out of optio
linking back hot tears. "I'm s
'd devoted my entire career and personal life
atex gloves angrily. My shoulders slumped as a famili
be tragically cut short before I
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ellow researcher, Liam Chen, watching m
happened?" he
making it hard to speak. "Emily's can
on my shoulder. "You did
I could still wasn't enough. Not when beautiful, promising
ch had made an advanced skin cancer patient's cells go into remission. For a few wonderful minutes, I
hat near success could never be replicated or developed further into an actual cure. Just another dead
when HE s
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he was, billionaire inventor Elijah Ford, looking
the society pages, always surrounded by parties and l
with an air of confidence.
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et Elijah in my small, dismal research lab. Maybe the answers I had
his unusual propos
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t female oncologists was a regular occurrence for
ituation. This couldn't be real. Was it some elaborate prank? But
ired. And currently, he seemed to want me as his wife, despite kno
sal?" I managed to ask, curio
stion my resistance. "Then your chances of curing cance
e proposed was unbelievable, unthinkable. Selling my vow of scientific dedication for a life of
fancy business card across the table. It seemed to
," he said smoothly. "
t of the lab, leaving me with the weight of the w
rent paths. One promised wealth, success, and the chance to fulfill all my medical dreams. The other path would
tement. I had a feeling my answer would change the co
own such medical promise. It now seemed to wink at me, jus
reality would I u