Chapter 143 - Replaced

They walked over the private lift followed by Arthur and Daniel. Felix and Stefan were left to watch over outside the hospital just in case something came up. J thought that they are probably there to watch out if in case she sneaks out.

J walked out of Jacob's office leaving Arthur, Daniel, and Jacob. Jacob's office is on the tenth floor. The tenth floor of the hospital houses Jacob's office, Chairman John Parker's office and offices of the Board of Directors and a conference room so it is very rare to see someone walking in the hall of the tenth floor.

James provided Arthur and Daniel a room to do their work. Which they converted into a control room with a lot of monitors.

Before J left Jacob's office, he reminded her about the secret that she is supposed to tell him today. Which reminds her to call Lance.

Instead of using the elevator, she used the stairs instead of going to the eighth floor where the Department of Surgery is. Each floor has a door leading to the stairs, so J thought that it would be easier to reason out if someone caught her coming out of the door of the stairs.

She could just tell them that she preferred to use the stairs or she stopped by and visited Diana on the seventh floor so she used the stairs instead of the elevator to go up to the eight floor.

Arriving at the nurses' station she saw Head Nurse Jing and other nurses. She waited for them to leave the station before she made a call to Lance

After a couple of rings, he answered the phone. "Hey."

"Hey," Lance replied enthusiastically.

"Uhm... I've got something to tell you." J said nervously. She actually didn't know how to start saying that he got replaced by Arthur.

"Oh... is that something about me being replaced as your right-hand man?

J was dumbstruck. "How did you know?"

"President Martin called me last night to say that your husband has appointed someone from the Twelve Army as your right-hand man with an additional three more guards." J didn't sense any remorse at all from Lance.

"So, let me guess. Jacob finds out about your identity and he was actually fine with it. He even meets up with your parents. And that's how I was replaced as your right-hand man?" Lance has guessed correctly

"Uh... huh..." J felt guilty. J told him about what happened yesterday. "I'm sorry, I tried to convince him that I already have a right-hand man."

"I know. Don't worry. It was just the title. I mean, the job description of the right-hand man doesn't actually fit with me. President Martin was right. What I am actually doing is the job of an adviser, not a right-hand man. So technically, I am not replaced. I just got a more appropriate job title. And you just got yourself an actual right-hand man." J was relieved to hear that Lance was not affected at all by the replacement. In fact, it seems to have done it better for him.

"By the way, are you free today?" J later on asked.

"Hmm... I might have a meeting later this afternoon at AM Entertainment. But if you would say that you want to meet with me, I'll cancel all my appointments." Lance laughed at the end of his words as if it was just a joke.

"Actually, I would like to meet you at the end of my shift."