"What suggestion?" Ethan worriedly asked.

"Well, we were hoping that Mr Ryan would perform the surgery after his return to Ireland and after seeing her reports he too felt he would be the right person to do this task. But unfortunately there has been a complication with the patient he is working on in the US and he therefore would be staying there for longer than intended so he has some alternate suggestion he would like to discuss with you two" The doctor explained.

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William got worried and looked at Ethan who nodded his head agreeing to the doctor's request.

"Okay, I'll set up a call between you two in two hours?" The doctor suggested and Ethan agreed.

"Can I also attend this meeting please?" William requested Ethan after the doctor left leaving them alone.

Ethan smirked at him, "Look at you pleading with me. I am really enjoying this Mr. Richardson"

"Please Ethan, I am doing everything that you are asking me to, can you please let me attend this call. After all it is about Liz's situation" William ignored Ethan's taunts and requested him keeping his ego aside.

"Fine, you can attend the call" Ethan didn't intend to let William out as it was related to making a decision about Liz's life.

No matter how much he loathed William, he was after all Liz's husband so he allowed him.

After two hours, the doctor called William and Ethan to his room.

The two men sat on the two chairs across the doctor who placed his laptop in front of them.

William saw an old man on the screen who looked intellectually sharp.

"Hello Dr Ryan" Will and Ethan greeted him.

"Hello. I saw the reports of the patient. A surgery is needed for her condition to improve. I hope the doctor who is in-charge of her already informed you two about it"

"Yes he did" William spoke and Ethan kept quiet.

"Yeah, so this surgery is very sensitive and it would be better only if a doctor who is experienced in it performs this surgery. I really hoped to be back to Ireland in two days and then take over your wife's case but unfortunately I have to prolong my stay in the US" Dr Ryan informed them and the two men got worried.

Seeing their worried expressions Dr Ryan tried to comfort them.

"But there is nothing to worry about it, that is why I called you two. I have two solutions to this problem and it is upto you which one you would prefer"

"Sure doctor, what are the solutions?"

"One option, we can ask one of the neurosurgeons working there to operate on her but none of the surgeons there have any experience in this kind of surgery and it will be their first time. But I assure you we have brilliant doctors and they will surely do a good job.

Second option, my junior works in the same hospital chain but in a different branch. He assisted me in this type of surgery multiple times and he himself performed the same surgery on a few patients. Having him there to operate on your wife is as good as having me there. But it will add onto your expenses as he is a renowned doctor and he would be flying to Ireland for your wife's case.

Between these two solutions you can choose whichever one you are comfortable with"

"What are the chances of successful operations in both the cases?" William asked him.

"In case one 75% chances and case two 95%" Dr Ryan honestly told them as this was the reason he especially took out time from his busy schedule to make an informed call.

"Well then we would like to go with option 2, we don't care about the expenses" William committed and looked at Ethan who nodded his head as he too wanted Liz to have access to the best facilities and money was not a concern.

"Great then, I'll call my junior to discuss this further and I'll update the doctor in-charge of your wife's case. He will later update you on the status" Dr Ryan informed them.

"Thank you so much doctor" William and Ethan thanked him and left.

After the call, Dr Ryan called his junior.

…

Daniel, Rachel, James, Michael, Anthony, Patrick and Jessica went to James' home as he invited them all to have a serious discussion.

"Grandpa, so you have no idea why MN corporation would try to harm me?" Rachel frankly asked James.

"No dear, we are not even business rivals as we are in different sectors" James said.

"But the attacks look more personal, it definitely has nothing to do with business" Daniel shared his opinion which they all agreed with.

"Grandpa, did you have any past rivalry with anyone from MN Industries, can you try to recollect?" Patrick insisted but James confirmed he had nothing to do with them.

"Truth be told, when I asked one of my men to check the threatening message Rachel received during her reunion. He told me it was someone from the MN corporation who messaged her and this person was near Rachel at that time" Daniel informed everyone surprising them.

"Oh why didn't you tell me before?" James asked him.

"He informed me about it, grandpa, but I was not able to find any link between them and Rachel so we didn't inform you" Patrick answered him.

"Oh"

James didn't say anything as Daniel and Patrick were not irresponsible people, he was sure they might have taken the right decision at that time.

"Now what next? What should we do?" Michael asked everyone but all were silent as no one had any solution to this problem.

Just then Daniel's phone rang and he was surprised to see the caller.

"Excuse me, this is an important call" Daniel excused himself and answered the phone.

"Dr Ryan, how are you?" Daniel greeted his senior. There was a tinge of happiness in his tone which was evident to Ryan and he smiled.