Georgia nodded. She'd thought the same, but she hadn't considered how to begin probing Riley.
Now Ivan had said that he was going to see the man personally, which solved that issue.
She couldn't accept Robert being unconscious anymore.
After finishing the discussion, Ivan flew on a private jet back to the country.
Jason continued to busy himself online, along with the running of Robert's company in this part of the world, while Wilson helped Georgia deal with the lingering problems after dealing with the Wimbledon family.
The war was over, but there were a lot of problems yet to be resolved.
Georgia wasn't free to do so, so it all fell on Wilson's shoulders.
For the past few days, Robert had gone in and out of a high fever. It wasn't a normal viral infection, or a fever from a cold or flue either. It was simply from his abnormal blood concentration causing repeated inflammation, and all sorts of abnormal elements in his body.
"You promised me you'd wake up before you went to sleep, Robert. It's been a week. If you don't wake up, I'm not going to bear it.
"Wesley and Annie are both crying. They're begging to see you and talk to you every day, while all I could do was lie and say that you were asleep, or that you were too weak to speak. But the kids aren't idiots. Every time, they see my red eyes. Can you really bear to leave the three of us? If you don't wake up, I'm just going to start dating online, you know! Don't think I won't!"
Georgia threatened him by his bedside, but Robert still didn't wake.
His face was red, and he'd just been injected with the latest organic medication that Antonio and the rest of them had developed to stabilize his body.
But that only treated the symptom and not the cause. Only the fever was being suppressed, but his mess of a body wasn't fixed at all.
"I know you're hurting. But at least wake up and talk to me so I can rest easier. You made it through being shut in Jayson's lab for that long. You can make it this time too, can't you?"
Georgia spoke, eyes red, but the man on the bed still had his eyes shut.
After a while, there came a knock on the door, and Georgia went out. Antonio was standing there.
"Your cousin's here."
Georgia wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and followed Antonio out, meeting Aston in the living room.
They'd found a few reliable people for research, and Georgia had asked Aston over.
Back then when they'd been experimenting, they'd meshed well with each other. With Robert in this condition, they needed a lot of manpower to process data and figures, so Georgia had asked Aston over.
She trusted him.
"Is the situation serious?"
Aston noticed Georgia's swollen eyes. He only knew the basics from the phone and hadn't looked at the data yet. He wasn't that apprised of the situation.
Antonio sent a large mass of experimental data and all sorts of documentation and reports on Robert's body straight to Aston.
"Look at this data for now. We haven't any leads at the moment and can't make a breakthrough. See if you can bring something new to the table."
Aston nodded, flipped across the information, and pored over them, in detail.
Georgia stopped staying silent and took up the data to look over all of them again.
She felt like they were in a dead end. Maybe it was the anxiety causing her to lose her rational thoughts, or maybe it was the worry causing her to be incapable of staying calm.
But especially in a situation like this, she had to keep the pain and anxiety tamped down, then find a way to resolve things.
After all, Aston had to look over the data all over again, so she might as well do the same and exchange thoughts with Aston. Maybe they'd come up with something.
In the day where Georgia was busying herself, Elsie and Vanessa wheeled a certain child around the garden, walking.
Sam was already half a year old and could sit in a stroller now, beaming out at the world every day.
A six-month-old child had all sorts of curiosities towards the outside world, so after waking up every day, Vanessa would take the kid out for a walk.
The child liked where there were a lot of people, and children near his age, especially children a year or two older than he was.
So they occasionally went to the sorts of parks where children played, with slides and swings, where there were a lot of other kids.
But today, Elsie and Vanessa didn't go to those crowded places.
They only walked around the garden pushing the child around. Both of them looked worried, while Sam stared as carefree as always at the plants of flowers around.
It was winter, but G City had always been warm, and there was some greenery that still bloomed in the season.
"We called Georgia all of two times these past few days, and it was short every time. Georgia looks busy even now and still hasn't gotten in contact, which only means that Robert's condition hasn't improved. Should we go over there to visit her? She's not going to make it on her own."
After Vanessa said that, Elsie frowned too.
"Georgia's busy right now. She's a researcher at heart and probably is staying with that bunch all the time in the lab. She has to greet us if we go over, and it'll delay her schedule. She also has to get people to guarantee our safety over there. Let's not."
"You're right. We'll just make trouble if we went over. The two of us don't have experience in that field and we can't help business-wise either. But we can't contact her for fear of delaying her, and we don't know her situation right now. What should we do?"
Elsie thought about it, then turned to Vanessa.
"Wilson might be busy, but he should still have the time to chat with us over video. He's going through night right now. I'll ask him what the situation is like right now so we can rest easier too."
The two took out a phone and video called Wilson straight away.
After a while, Wilson's face appeared on screen, and Elsie noticed the dark bags under his eyes straight away.
Seemed like Wilson was too busy to get enough sleep.
Elsie still remembered that back then, when Wilson was working hard for her and occasionally lost sleep, even for a whole day, his eyes never get bags.
How many days had he stayed up at this point? Elsie felt a surge of heartache, but Wilson got straight to the point.
"Did you need something? I've got a lot of things on my plate on this side."
Vanessa spoke swiftly.
"We know that Georgia's busy and needs to stay in the lab. We didn't want to distract her with calling, so we're asking you. What's Robert's condition? Any improvements?"
Wilson sighed.
"Robert's been unconscious all throughout and in intermittent fevers. His condition is complicated. He's the only one in such a situation in the entire world, and any form of treatment carries a risk. Their hands are tied on that, and I'm not in their line of work, so I can't do anything to help, and I don't know what to suggest. So for this while, I've been assisting Miss Lane with office business."
That had Elsie and Vanessa even more worried. Robert's condition hadn't improved at all and Georgia didn't know what to do. Vanessa couldn't picture how sad and anxious Georgia had to be right now.
"Is there any way we can help Georgia, Wilson? She's going through too much alone. And the kids? How are they doing?"
"Annie and Wesley are safe over there in that kingdom, and Miss Lane's mother has gone over to take care of the children. They're stable for now."
Just as Wilson finished explaining, there came a knock on his door.
Office staff had come over with a few documents for Wilson to sigh. Seeing him frown and order those people around, Elsie sighed.
"Never mind. If you're this busy, I'll hang up for now. Get a good night's sleep. The way you look, you can't have eaten or slept well. Georgia still needs you. You can't collapse beforehand."
Wilson looked up and smiled mildly.
"I've got it. Don't worry about me."
After saying that, the two ended the call.
Elsie and Vanessa brought Sam with them in their worries, heading back to the mansion. The two of them didn't have the appetite to eat anything, and they had the butler tell the chef to make something light.
Sam had fallen asleep and they put him in the bedroom.
The two just sat there in the living room, not even wanting to talk.
But the two of them hadn't even said anything when Elsie saw Alfred's mother bring a woman in.
The woman was a tall individual, with pale skin.
Elsie hadn't seen this person before. She found it strange when Vanessa took her hand and murmured in her ear.
"This is the princess of Svero, Elsie. I hear this is a proud person with an ill temper. Keep your own temper reined in and don't go against her. Of course, she might not be looking for trouble."
With that, the two stood and walked up in front of Isabel. Vanessa smiled at her mother-in-law.
"Why did you bring Princess Anna here, Mom?"