I moved back home. With James suspended from duty, he took charge of all the household chores and looked after me meticulously. Whenever his phone rang, he would report to me immediately. James often remarked that it felt like we were back to our early married days, but I simply smiled without a word. Only I knew that we could never return to that time.

After a peaceful period, James became busy again. Public opinion gradually calmed down, and the hospital reinstated James in his position as his stem cell experiment became their flagship project. It was as if the incident of the kidney transplant had never happened.

James resumed...