Chapter 283 Retreat

Zack said in a low voice as if he saw through Kathy’s thoughts, “You are the person that I trust the most
right now and you have experience with this sort of matter. This drug will be our flagship product next
year, there is no room for mistakes.”

“But grandfather…”

“No buts, there are still three months left. It should be more than enough time for you,” said Zack, he
was irrefutable.

“Go meet Bertie in the afternoon, he’ll take you to the lab.”

“But grandfather, I want to stay with you.”

She wasn’t here to solve problems happening at Booth Group.

But it was obvious that her grandfather’s main intention for her to be here, was so that she could help
Booth Group out.

“You wouldn’t need to take a hand in this matter if you want me to go to the lab instead. I don’t have
much longer, I don’t really want to run about and deal with Booth Group’s problems on my death bed…”
Zack sounded bleak and desolate.

Kathy’s heart ached even though she knew that he was just trying to egg her on. She yielded to his
request.

“I’ll go, grandfather.”

“Okay, I’ll be at peace knowing that you are a part of this matter.”

Kathy didn’t look so good when she walked out of the room.



What Zack told her just now meant that she couldn’t avoid coming into contact with Bertie.

She knew that Jennifer controlled part of the Booth Group’s industry and the other part was still in
Zack’s hand.

She also knew that Zack trusted Bertie a lot. He was getting old and had temporarily handed his part of
the industry over to Bertie.

Joseph would be furious if he found out that she needed to work alongside with Bertie.

But she didn’t want to hide it.

She called Joseph without hesitant.

Joseph’s masculine voice could be heard from the phone, “You miss me already?”

“Joseph, there’s something serious that I need to talk about.” Kathy took a deep breath, “There’s some
issue with the new drug at Booth Group and my grandfather wants me to help out at the lab.”

“And you think that I will disagree?” Joseph could tell from her tone of voice.

“Yes, because Bertie will be there,” said Kathy nervously.

“Well, I cannot prevent that from happening, right?” said Joseph, his voice was surprisingly gentle.

Though Kathy could feel a hint of anger in his voice.

Kathy bit her lips, this wasn’t what she wished for.

“I couldn’t say no to grandfather.”



“Mrs. Joseph, I trust you. But you’ll have to hope that I’ll be able to control myself,” said Joseph half-
jokingly.

“What would you do?” said Kathy teasingly.

“Bring you away,” answered Joseph without skipping a beat.

Kathy’s heart was pumping. She believed that Joseph would do that without hesitation.

She knew that even though he always seemed gentle and mature, he could be over-bearing and
forceful when he wanted to.

“Don’t get jealous so easily.”

“No can do, Mrs. Joseph. I will not allow any male to get near you.”

“I’ll be having male classmates in my class when university starts.”

Even though it was beyond logic, it still made Kathy’s heart melt.

“I’ll kill a hundred.”

Kathy snorted, “Don’t be like that.”

Kathy went to Booth Group in the afternoon.

She talked to the R&D personnel for a while and headed to the lab together.

She was once a part of the research and development of a certain drug, but she wasn’t the person in
charge. She was clearly not experienced enough for this.



The medication that Booth Group was developing was named “HIOD”. Kathy looked at the report and
saw a familiar name, Edith.

She was the main developer of the drug.

She suddenly remembered that the Hunt family was in country B. Of course, Edith would be here as
well.

Edith was surprised to see Kathy, as Kathy walked into the lab.

She took off her mask and her assistant introduced them to each other, “Professor Wesley, this is
Kathy. She was sent over by people from the Booth Group to be in charge.”

“Why are you here, Kathy?” said Edith coldly.

“Didn’t you hear what your assistant just said, Ms. Wesley? I am the person in charge of Booth Group.
This drug is developed by Booth Group, hence I’m here.”

“Weren’t you in City N?”

Kathy laughed sarcastically looking at how displeased Edith was, “It doesn’t matter where I am. It
shouldn’t affect your work.”

She put on a lab coat and left Edith alone.

According to her grandfather, she needed to find out what was wrong with the medication in three
months. They should carry-out the fourth clinical trial soon and put it on the market by the end of this
year.

Edith stared at Kathy from yonder, she asked the assistant standing next to her, “How did I not hear
about this?”



“I also just found out about this myself. The president of Booth Group literally just notified us just now.”

“What’s her relationship with Booth Group?”

“I heard that she’s the president’s granddaughter.”

Edith frown deeply, granddaughter?

How did Kathy and the Booth family have such a connection?

She investigated Kathy’s background before and found out that she was born into a normal family,
there was no way that she was a part of the Booth family, a prestigious family.

But now…

“Go look into it, I want all information regarding Kathy.”

Edith’s gaze was locked onto Kathy. Could it be that Joseph was here as well since Kathy was here?

But Joseph wouldn’t want to see her.

“Professor Wesley, these powder couldn’t be combined…” Edith’s train of thoughts was interrupted by
her assistant’s voice.

She snapped back into reality and realized that the specimen that she prepared was decayed.

“Is there more of the new drugs?”

“We’ll have to wait till tomorrow. The new drugs in stock have been taken away by Kathy,” said the
assistant quietly.

Edith’s face darkened, she looked at the time and realized that it was almost evening.



Tomorrow then.

Bertie came in from outside when Edith was about to leave.

“Why are you here, Mr. Marshall?” Edith halted in her track.

Although Bertie was one of the person-in-charge, he never came by the lab before.

“The president ordered to accelerate the progress of the development of the new drug, I’m here to take
a look,” said Bertie plainly.

He then went into the lab.

Edith saw that Bertie went up directly to Kathy.

Her eyes turned frigid and cold.

Kathy grimaced when she saw Bertie, “Mr. Marshall, please put on a mask before coming in.”

Bertie smiled aptly, “It’s getting late. Come with me, I’ll tell you more about the new drug.”

There was an office room in front of the lab. Kathy sat on the sofa, she was holding the documents
about “HIOD” on her hand.

“Do you know why your grandfather wants you to take part in the R&D of this new drug so badly?”
asked Bertie.

“Mr. Marshall, the drug was already past the research stage and I wasn’t part of it. It’s now in the
clinical trial phase.” Kathy tried to correct him.

“Well, it’s not complete yet. You are here now and you’re considered to be part of the research team. I
believe that this drug will cause a stir in the medical community when released. Booth Group will be



able to win popular trust if people find out that you are one of the main researchers.

Kathy pursed her lips, she understood what Bertie was trying to tell her.

Her grandfather never gave up on forcing her to inherit his position in the company.

“Mr. Marshall, I only promised grandfather to work on HIOD and see it until the end. There’s no need to
think about other things, please mind your own business.”

“Really? Do you think you can retreat smoothly afterwards?” Bertie squinted his eyes.

“I’m positive,” answered Kathy without any hesitation.


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