Rafael could not take it anymore and shouted, "Mosby, just accept the challenge already! You've got decades of medical mastery—what's there to fear? Kill him with it!"

Quinton, ever the chaos-stirrer, chimed in again. "Exactly, Dr. Lake! Believe in yourself. Andrew is bluffing—no way he'd really go all in! But hey, if he does… well then, pretend I didn't say anything."

Mosby's apprentices all turned to glare at Quinton, seething with rage. Then, they turned back toward their mentor, bowing r