Chapter 43 CHAPTER 43
This was not the device he used for ordinary calls, not the one patients contacted.
Not the one colleagues knew, not the one the public ever saw.
This phone was different, Private, Rarely used.
Reserved for conversations that were never meant to leave a trace in the open.
He looked down at it for a second, his thumb hovering over the screen. There was no hesitation in him anymore, only calculation. If someone had chosen to attack him in the shadows, then he would answer from the shadows as well.
He unlocked the phone.
Scrolled once, then stopped at a number with no name saved beside it, immediately he pressed call, the line rang once.
Twice.
Before someone finally answered.
The voice that came through the speaker sounded surprised cautious, almost amused, but with an undercurrent of curiosity.
“I honestly wasn’t expecting you to call me at a time like this.”
Dr. Kai’s expression remained hard.
“Well,” he said coldly, “I wouldn’t call you unless someone had taken it upon themselves to destroy my career.”
He paused, letting the weight of that statement settle.
“And that,” he continued, each word clipped and deliberate, “is the kind of thing that will force me to reach out.”
He turned slightly and looked out the office window, though his gaze was not on the city below. It was somewhere else entirely—on the shape of his revenge, on the people who had humiliated him, on the narrative he intended to crush before it hardened into truth.
Then his voice lowered further.
“And you know very well that if my career is literally destroyed, you also wouldn’t have the jobs that are going pay you like I do.”
At once, the man on the other end of the phone gave a short, dangerous laugh.
“Saying no more?” he replied. “I understand you perfectly. In fact, I understand you very well.”
There was a pause, and then his tone sharpened.
“But now I’m curious—who is this person that wants to take food off my table? Who exactly is bold enough to try something like that?”
His voice dropped into something darker, almost amused by the audacity of it.
“Doesn’t this person know what you are capable of? Doesn’t this person know that with one single call, you can turn day into darkness? Or is she simply ignorant?”
Dr. Kai’s jaw tightened as he listened.
Then he answered in a cold, steady voice, “It seems she is not aware. That is exactly why I called you—so you can make her aware.”
He moved around his desk slowly, each step measured.
“She is walking on a road she has no business trespassing on. And if she does not retreat, that road is going to consume her.”
There was a beat of silence on the line.
Then the man spoke again, and this time there was open interest in his voice.
“So you want to tell me this person is a woman?”
He gave a low whistle.
“A woman? Then she is even bolder than I thought. Just imagine that kind of confidence. She must really be looking for trouble.”
His tone turned mocking.
“She must think making noise for herself is the same thing as having power. Well…”
He chuckled darkly.
“With Black Dragon involved, we are definitely going to teach her a very good lesson.”
Dr. Kai said nothing, allowing the man to continue.
“So you have absolutely nothing to worry about,” the man said smoothly. “Just forward me her picture and leave the rest to me. I’ll handle it personally.”
His confidence was chilling.
“And I can assure you—before the next twelve hours pass, you will have your answer. You’ll get your result. Whatever you want done can be done.”
Dr. Kai’s eyes narrowed.
He was silent for a brief moment, choosing his next words carefully.
Then he said, “For now, only threaten her.”
The man on the other end paused.
Dr. Kai continued, “She is a close associate of a friend of mine. If anything serious happens to her too soon, my friend will dig deep to find out what happened. And I do not want unnecessary attention on me at this stage.”
He stopped walking and stood still.
“So yes—threaten her. Shake her. Make her understand that she is not untouchable.”
His voice grew colder, harder.
“That alone should be enough for now.”
Then he added, with a dangerous calm that made the words even more sinister, “But depending on how she responds, I will give you the next instruction.”
His grip tightened around the phone.
“Because right now, what I want is for her to be crushed.”
He inhaled slowly, the anger inside him deepening into something more calculated.
“And also that hand she is using to practice that nonsense she calls ancient healing…”
His voice became a whisper edged with venom.
“I want that hand destroyed.”