Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 391: An epidemiChapter

Phoebe was ready with the retort, which was to loudly oppose her mother, but her grandmother beat her to it.

"Your proposal is denied." Grandma Mayfair shot Jennie a stern gaze. "My Maureen’s boyfriend is an ordinary man that is not from our families. Phoebe vetted him and he is a good man who will make her happy. I believe that they will be married soon." Her eyes leveled to meet those of her daughter who almost chocked on a cookie on hearing her mother announce that Mr. Alton was her boyfriend.

"Mother!" came Maureen’s surprised outcry, her exasperated facial expression mirrored that of the rest of the members of the family except Phoebe who only chortled.

Maureen sighed, "Mom, could you please stop with the crazy talk. How come I wasn’t aware that Mr. Alton is my boyfriend. We have only gone on one date, don’t rush things. If he is not right for me, we will find another match, at most I will settle for an arrangement with someone from the founding families." Her eyes drifted to the television. "Pheebs is that not your company they are talking about? Someone increase the volume." Her eyes drifted to Oman then back to the television.

It looked like there was an ongoing press conference the minister for health was making and announcement that presently in Fog country and its neighboring countries there was a notable increase in persistent cough infections. He mentioned the figures which had been recorded by hospitals and informed the public that the cough was extremely deadly to children below the age of ten.

He urged the public not to worry and encouraged parents with children below the age of ten to have them vaccinated with the Ivy vaccine that had been purchased from DP research laboratories. It was being supplied to all hospitals in the country, but the quantities were not many which is why children would be prioritized first, followed by sick adults.

Everyone turned to Luke as the press conference drew to a close and the normal morning new resumed.

"Is it an epidemic?" grandma Mayfair asked.

Luke nodded, it could be considered that since the hospital he worked in had received over thirty sick children, all with the same cough. "It has been two weeks since some of us noticed that there was a problem.

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Some of my seniors in the medical world suspected that there was more to this cough than what met the eye but people don’t like to hear words like epidemic so it was kept hush hush by the government until it could not be hidden anymore because it is spreading too quickly."

"Pheebs, how in the world did you guys do it? Damn, you are going to be rolling in money." Andre chimed in with some excitement.

A scoff escaped from Phoebe’s lips. "Are you seriously mentioning money when there is an outbreak that could possibly kill many children?" A note of disappointment crept into her voice.

The smile vanished from Andre’s face mostly because of the disgusted glances that were thrown his way, he waved his hands in denial. "Oh my God, I am not such a monster, you should all not look at me that way. What I mean is that I am happy that DP research made a vaccine which is going to save many lives.

The money is a welcome bonus, come on, when has making money, the right way ever been a bad thing? The researchers that made the vaccine need to be paid, you need to buy herbs and equipment to make medicine. It is only justified that you make money from your research." He echoed with seriousness and dry honesty.

Even though Phoebe did not approve of his initial words, she could not blame him because there was no death yet as a result of the cough. She recalled that she had good news to share.

"Everyone, my plan with David was successful and right now, Dickson must be furious." She saw the questions in their eyes and expanded on her words. "There has been talk about the cough in some medical circles, so everyone has been improving their medicine or researching something new.

We deliberately leaked the trial results and a fake recipe of the Ivy cough vaccine to a person that Dickson bribed at DP labs. Apparently, he used all the money he got as an investment from DP holdings to mass produce a cough vaccine using that recipe.

He tweaked it by changing a few ingredients, but fake is fake, and this is going to be huge loss for DC pharma. We told you that we would cripple him in all ways and now you can tick financially off the box." Phoebe jutted her chin upwards as Andre clapped dramatically.

Grandma Mayfair coughed dryly. "It was a very good plan; his company cannot recover from such a hit. When word gets out that his vaccine is fake, he will be done in the medical research field, nobody will ever trust him again. You laid down a trap and he fell for it like the idiot that he is." she smirked

"Still, one cannot cripple a Saxon financially at least not completely, they get millions of dollars monthly from their family vault." Aunt Maureen extinguished the happiness in the room.

Edward raised his hand and called for everyone’s attention. "No, we should give Phoebe and David credit, this was a good move, even if he gets money from elsewhere, he is not as financially strong as he was before and he will not be able to sit on the board of the Saxon group. They will kick him out to avoid being included in a fake medicine scandal and Like I said last time, by the time I am done with him, uncle Rufus will take him off the family register."

Luke laughed, the sound had an edge and mockery to it. "That’s not enough but we should all do our best to end him. The best part of this is that Katherine will be mad as hell too when she realizes it’s David and Phoebe’s product. I want to be there the day she finally learns to whom DP holdings belongs."

"She will explode." Andre snickered.

They made jokes for a while and then Luke excused himself, the hospital was about to be flooded with patients sick or not with cough related symptoms.

"Mother what do you think about working at David’s orphanage?" Phoebe suddenly raised a question which was unexpected.

Jennie frowned, no surprise to Phoebe at all. Her mother was like Sabrina, she was not built to suffer, she was born for the soft life. Phoebe was suggesting this because her mother was not employed, and she had a big and kind heart.

"Do not worry mom, you won’t have to strain yourself physically just do what you can, and David is going to ask grandma Saxon to help out too so you won’t be bored and alone. All you have to do is make sure that things are in order, you do not have to be there all day. Its temporary, just until we find suitable replacements. Please, please, please." She pouted her lips in a cute fashion, but her eyes glistened with desperation.

"Alright but only until you find a replacement." Jennie’s lips twisted to form a smile, she couldn’t say no to her pleading daughter, not when she was acting cute.

Phoebe clapped triumphantly. "Thank you, mother, I am sure that those cute children will warm your heart that you will not want to leave them."

Jennie laughed with unease and hoped that Phoebe would find a replacement for her much sooner than later, she did not really like to work. "If you say so." came her voice which had traces of uncertainty.

"Mom, let’s go to the orphanage now and assess the situation, David is already there." Phoebe pushed her chair back and stood; her eyes moved to stare at her aunt who was still sitting. "Aunt you can go and start your duties at the cafe, Rosette will teach you the ropes." Phoebe ignored the echoes of gasps that came from some family members.

"No way!" Andre whispered.

It seemed Maureen has not told everyone that she was sticking around for a while. To Phoebe, it was good news so why was everyone gasping as if the grinch had come to town?