Bab 28: 028. The Bastard

"Mr. Jones, are you asking for Dr. Campbell?"

An intern doctor who passed by saw Adam Jones and approached him, asking

"Yeah."

"Dr. Campbell has already finished her shift. She left not long ago."

"Finished her shift?"

Adam Jones furrowed his brow, nodded his thanks to the intern doctor, and turned to leave without saying another word.

As he pulled out his phone, his fingers hesitated before dialing Elly Campbell's number. It was the first time in years that he had reached out to her, and an unexpected sense of nervous tension gripped his chest, though he couldn't explain why.

Beep!

After two rings, the line went to a busy signal.

"Damned!"

He muttered a curse under his breath, gritting his teeth in frustration. Undeterred, he redialed the number, only to be met once again with the irritating sound of a busy signal.

"Damn Elly Campbell!"

"Sir."