When I Met You novel Chapter 18

Susan reached out to grab Ruby into her embrace, kissed her, and said, “Okay, then you take the snacks to your room and I’ll speak to your godmother for a while.”

“Okay.” Ruby grip a bottle of yogurt in her mouth, grabbed the snacks, and skipped towards her room with the snacks.

Once Ruby was inside her room, Susan sat on the sofa, sighed, and relaxed.

“Here you go, have a drink.” Tina gave Susan a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and said to her, “Why are you here during office hours? This isn’t like you. Aren’t you worried that Edward will find out?”

“Edward went to meet his true love.” Susan took a sip of the juice, looked at Tina, and then sighed again.

Tina looked at Susan with disdain, “Then aren’t you jealous?”

Susan rolled her eyes at Tina and took another sip of the juice, “What right do I have to be jealous? I can’t even handle my own matters now.”

“What?” Tina frowned at Susan.

Susan appeared helpless, “Jarvis is Ruben’s son and Edward is Ruben’s younger brother. Do you understand such a relationship?” After Susan said this, she looked like she had lost all hope in life.

Tina was eating lychee and almost swallowed the pit. She quickly spitted it out and said to Susan, “Ha ha ha, Susan, you… haha… then what do you intend to do?” Tina had not met Edward and seen his character but she had heard of it.

As for Jarvis, Tina had seen and guessed that he must be an incomplete version of Edward.

Susan looked helplessly at Tina, “What can I do?” After saying this, Susan’s phone rang and Susan took a look at it. It was an unknown number and she quickly answered it.

Jarvis’s voice came over the phone, “Where are you?” He went straight to the point.

Susan didn’t know how to face Jarvis. She straight away ended the call without giving it a thought. She thought that Jarvis would call again but he didn’t.

Just as Susan thought that Jarvis had given up, she received another call and this was from a renowned private hospital which Susan had once considered sending her mother there. Unfortunately, the costs were exorbitant and hence she didn’t.

She frowned and hesitated but answered the call, “Hello?”

Susan frowned as the caller said, “Hi, Ms. White, I’m Troy Morton of Grace Hospital.”

“How do you do? Mr. Morton?” Susan felt strange from Troy’s tone but answered very politely.

“Ms. White, a few years ago I noticed the results of your medical thesis. May I ask where are you working now? Are you interested in working at our hospital?”

What he said shocked Susan. She had always wanted to work at a hospital again but previously all the hospitals had rejected her due to the rumors spread by Kendra.

She had continued to study over these years except that she had never harbored the hope of working in a hospital again.

“Did… did you make a mistake?” Susan couldn’t believe what she just heard and asked but Mr. Morton sounded very sincere, “No, I’m sure of this. I would like to invite you to work at my hospital. I had previously seen some thesis by you and you have some interesting views on the heart and brain.” Once he said these, Susan was absolutely dumbfounded.

It was real!

“I…” Of course, she was willing! Susan could never dream of having such an opportunity!

“Are you available? You can come to our hospital for a visit first.”

“Okay.” Mr. Morton’s reputation was very good in the medical field and he was very senior in age. Even if it wasn’t for work, she should visit him out of respect.

After Susan ended the call, she looked at Tina nervously.

“What happened?” Tina could see that Susan was nervous and asked. Susan related to Tina what had just happened and Tina was particularly excited.

“Go! Haven’t you always wanted such an opportunity? Go go go!” Tina immediately encouraged her.

Susan wanted to mention her doubts but Tina already pushed Susan to get up, “If you want to enter this field again, then this is the best opportunity. Hurry up, I’ll call for the babysitter to come over to look after Ruby. I’ll go with you.”

Tina noticed Susan’s hesitation and said, “What are you waiting for? Let’s go. What will you survive on after your divorce? If Edward really has a true love, once you divorce do you think that you can continue to work as his secretary?”

Of course not. Tina was right. Susan already knew that she would not be anywhere close to Edward after the divorce. After Tina’s reminder, she knew for sure that she couldn’t remain as his secretary. If that was the case, she could only go to work at a small company and in that case, she will not be able to provide for Ruby and herself.

Susan looked at Tina and said, “Okay, you don’t have to go with me, I’ll go by myself.” After saying this, Susan said farewell to Tina and left.

She took a taxi directly to the Grace Hospital and then contacted Mr. Morton. It was Mr. Morton who came out personally to receive Susan.

Susan went with Mr. Morton to his office to chat. Susan did not have any experience with doing hospital rounds to assess patients and so he suggested for her to start at the outpatient ward and also do some rounds assessing the patients. Her salary was higher than those in the same field but was according to the norm at the Grace Hospital.

Mr. Morton seemed to be very professional and impressed with Susan and she agreed to work at the hospital. This had definitely addressed her immediate concerns especially when she was about to divorce Edward and needed to look for another job.

Except that Susan could not start immediately at the Grace Hospital. She needed to explain to Edward and ease the transition. Hence, Susan set the date of commencement to be a fortnight later while she used this time to resign from Edward’s company.

Susan gave Edward a call when she left Grace Hospital.

Edward sounded casual, “What’s the matter?”

“Where are you, is it convenient for me to look for you?”

“I’m in the office.” Edward hung up the call after telling Susan where he was.

Susan felt that if Edward was at his office, then he should be alone and Vanessa shouldn’t be there. However, once Susan arrived at his office, she saw Vanessa once she opened the door.