Gael frowned, “Yanni!”

Yanni sneered. Then, she let the smile gradually fade. She looked at Gael as if she were staring at an unreasonable stranger.

“Please call me Ms. Yanni or Dr. Yanni. You should also recognize your status, Mr. Gael. You’re merely a family member of a patient in Lockwood Hospital. You're not even an officially recognized one. The biological parents can treat you as a mere outsider.”

Gael was provoked and blurted out, “Emilia is divorced.”

There was a deathly silence in