Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 123: Rory Linden Calls Him "President Harrison
Rory Linden glanced at Evan Hollis beside her and took the initiative to explain the situation.
"Yeah, a young girl in the village was too embarrassed to come see a doctor, so I decided to make a house call. Dr. Hollis said it’s not safe in the countryside at night, so he came with me."
Sean Harrison asked, "Are you heading back now?"
Rory Linden: "Mhm."
A brief silence fell over the phone call...
"Watch out, there’s a hole here."
Evan Hollis’s voice cut through the quiet background noise.
His voice was very close, as if he were speaking right next to the phone.
And that was indeed the case.
As Evan Hollis spoke, he leaned in close.
He grabbed Rory Linden’s arm, forcing her to stop.
The light from the village streetlamps wasn’t very bright.
Rory Linden looked down and saw that there was indeed an uneven hole at her feet.
She stepped over it before saying to the man beside her, "Thank you."
Evan Hollis: "You’re welcome."
Their back-and-forth exchange sounded particularly grating in the night.
After a long moment, Sean Harrison finally said, "I have something to do. Get some rest when you get back."
Rory Linden felt she should say something more, but after all the words swirled in her head, she only managed to get out a single, "Okay."
When she reached the dormitory entrance, Rory Linden first called Sherry Walsh.
She needed to send Maisie and her mother to Veridia for medical treatment.
Even though she had bought them tickets, it was their first time going to Veridia, so they would need someone to pick them up.
She couldn’t go back anytime soon.
The only person she could ask for a favor...
...was Sherry Walsh.
Rory Linden briefly explained the situation.
"No problem! It’s a small thing!" Sherry Walsh readily agreed, then immediately added, "Anyway, now that Gary Sinclair is locked up, when his daughter gets here, why don’t you persuade them to sue him as well? They can stack the charges and get him a longer sentence."
"Is that possible?" Rory Linden didn’t know much about the law. "But Maisie is so young. Wouldn’t that cause her more trauma...?"
In Rory Linden’s eyes, Maisie’s situation was far more pitiful than her own.
In a way, she was truly the luckiest of Gary Sinclair’s victims.
Although she had nothing to do with the crimes Gary Sinclair committed.
But...
She still wanted to help them.
"It’s worth a try. Extortion gets you a decade or so at most. Forcing a girl under fourteen to have relations with him... the maximum penalty is death."
Sherry Walsh offered her opinion:
"A scumbag like Gary Sinclair is just wasting the country’s resources by being alive. It’d be better if he were dead."
Having been friends with Rory Linden for so many years, Sherry Walsh knew quite a bit about her biological father.
"Then you can try asking them after you pick them up. If they’re not willing, just forget it."
Rory Linden was genuinely afraid of causing Maisie any more psychological trauma.
"Oh, right. A while ago, you asked me to look into Sean Harrison, didn’t you? I had my dad check."
"And the results?"
Rory Linden couldn’t help but feel nervous.
She was terrified that Sean Harrison had done something illegal.
"In the past, he..." Sherry Walsh deliberately drew out her words. "Has no criminal record."
"Can’t you just say it properly!"
Rory Linden was left speechless by her friend’s attitude.
Sherry Walsh laughed. "Anyway, that’s what my dad said. He said Sean is a real gambler in business, but naturally, he ends up winning more often than not."
"I see..."
"Anyway, that’s all I can do to help. As for his actual personality, my dad doesn’t have any way of looking into that."
"This is enough. Thank you."
As far as Rory Linden was concerned, it was enough to know that Sean Harrison’s business dealings were clean.
Whether they ended up together or not,
she hoped the rest of his life would be smooth sailing.
At least...
...he wouldn’t face any jail time.
After hanging up with Sherry Walsh, Rory Linden called Stella Yates.
Although she was a doctor at Elysian, she didn’t have the authority to let non-members receive treatment there.
Even if she had that kind of pull, having Maisie and her mother come to Elysian for treatment was definitely not a good option.
In comparison, going to the top-tier hospital where Stella Yates worked was a much better choice.
Rory Linden explained Maisie and her mother’s situation again.
Stella Yates also readily agreed.
Once she had made arrangements with them, Rory Linden finally bought the bus tickets for Maisie and her mother.
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「The next day.」
The medical team was scheduled to move to another village.
The two villages weren’t far apart, but the mountain roads were difficult, and the drive would take over two hours.
After breakfast, Rory Linden was still dragging her luggage toward the meeting point.
Her phone, in her pocket, kept dinging nonstop.
It was the sound of WeChat notifications.
Rory Linden pulled out her phone.
To make communication easier, the members of the medical team had privately created a group chat without the team leader in it.
For three days, there hadn’t been a single message in the group.
In the time it took her to pull out her phone, three or four new messages had already come in.
[Which hospital sent someone new? And he’s a handsome guy.]
[How handsome could he be? Are you serious?]
[Totally serious. You guys have to come see. I don’t even think he’s a doctor, he looks more like a celebrity. But I don’t know many celebrities, so I can’t tell who he is.]
[Sneak a picture.]
Rory Linden wasn’t interested in some handsome guy.
In her eyes, Sean Harrison was handsome enough.
It would be hard for any other handsome man to catch her eye.
Rory Linden put her phone away and continued dragging her suitcase toward the bus.
Along the way, her phone kept buzzing with notifications from the group chat, but she didn’t look.
Until...
She reached the side of the bus and saw a few young doctors and nurses hiding to one side, peering in a certain direction.
She followed their gaze and...
"Sean... Sean Harrison?!"
Seeing that familiar face just a few meters away, Rory Linden thought her eyes were playing tricks on her!
The man spotted Rory Linden in the crowd at a glance and strode toward her without hesitation.
All eyes followed the man, watching as he walked toward Rory Linden.
"Y-You... What are you doing here?"
Rory Linden glanced around as she spoke.
There was only the bus and the medical team members around.
She didn’t see the luxury car he usually rode in, nor did she see any other vehicles.
At that moment, Sean Harrison also scanned the surroundings.
He didn’t see Evan Hollis.
The man’s lips curved into a slight smile as he asked her, "What, you don’t want me to be here?"
Before Rory Linden could answer, the medical team leader ran over. "President Harrison, President Harrison, my apologies. I’m late."
Sean Harrison said, "It’s fine. I just arrived myself."
Seeing the team leader approach, the crowd that had been watching from the side for a while finally had an excuse to draw closer.
One of the nurses asked, "Team Leader, hurry and introduce us to this handsome man."
The team leader glanced at Sean Harrison before introducing him to the group. "This is Sean Harrison, President Harrison, a director of the Zhenxing Foundation. He’ll be joining our rural medical outreach program for the next two days."
Every rural medical outreach trip was funded by various foundations in Celestria, which provided money, medicine, and medical equipment.
This time, it was indeed the Zhenxing Foundation.
Rory Linden hadn’t expected Sean Harrison to be a director of this foundation.
Just as the team leader finished his introduction...
Evan Hollis came jogging over, pulling a suitcase.
He didn’t seem surprised to see Sean Harrison. With his usual smile, he asked, "Mr. Harrison, did you come here specifically to see Dr. Linden?"
Everyone’s gaze shifted to Rory Linden.
Before the man could speak, Rory Linden took a step back and explained earnestly to Evan Hollis, "No, President Harrison is here on behalf of the Zhenxing Foundation to supervise this medical outreach trip."
