Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

119 Finding her path

Maverick’s phone rang as he was about to get down to business even when Jeslyn was pushing him away. He stared at her red and swollen lips before getting up to pick up the call. After listening to the other party for a while, he hummed before going out, not forgetting to give Jeslyn one last look. Jeslyn breathed a sigh of relief and sat up. Her hair looked messy from struggling and her chest heaved up and down in quick successions. “Why is he calling me Rossa? He thinks I’m Rossa? This will be harder than I thought… Maverick, you’ve gone crazy!” She cried out and brushed her hair out of her face.

Maverick entered one of the rooms he prohibited Jeslyn from entering. The room was a laboratory with weird and familiar hospital equipment. On one of the beds was Valen and on the other was Vera.

Vera had some brain testing equipment fixed on her head while Matt took her blood sample for testing.

Maverick took the lab coat he was offered by Rex and walked to stand beside Valen’s bed.

“How is it?” He asked.

“Vera’s brain report shows that her brain was tampered with.” Matt explained.

“Can it be fixed?”

“Yes, but it will take about 3 to 5 years or probably forever, but if her mind is stimulated with enough memories of her past, especially those activities she loved doing, the process will be quicker and that will be greatly appreciated.”

“What about Valen?”

“The research is in its final stage. Once it’s successful and doesn’t fail like the rest, we will immediately carry out the operation. Meanwhile, he has to remain in bed until that time.”

Maverick frowned and Rex asked. “Has he drifted into a coma?”

“I’m afraid, Yes.”

“Why? Was it because of the activities he did?” Rex asked worriedly. Hope Jeslyn won’t get into trouble?

“Partially. You shouldn’t have taken him out of the Country. The temperature is different, the water is different, the food, air and everything is different. He inhaled too many bacterials due to the

contaminated air.”

“For how long will he be like this?” Rex asked. His brother was just staring at his son. Rex wasn’t even sure if Maverick heard what was being said.

but if he stays asleep longer than that, then, I’m afraid…”

ut his eyes and took a

was so tightly clenched that veins popped out

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was just like always…

ok? Except that when she faints, she wakes

supposed to take her dose last week or her condition would

at Maverick with fear in his eyes. After Maverick told him yesterday that Jeslyn is Rossa, he changed the direction of their investigation and now they seem

investigation was futile. It seems all her data was saved under the name, ‘Rossa. So Rex was scared that

island, his brother caused so much mayhem in the

check on her,” he finally opened his mouth but didn’t take a step away from

took Matt to Jeslyn’s room and after testing her, he returned to Maverick with the result. “She has taken

with clenched

the moment, she is fine but some time from now she will need to stop taking it because it will kill her when

Matt left, Maverick ordered Rex, “get her into the red

headed out of

sat crossed leg on a couch with

on the table.

Rex walked into the room with a lady in turn. He also took a seat on an empty couch and waited patiently for his brother to

everything.” Maverick said coolly.

boss?” The lady looked on with uncertainty.

would be sad, a bullet would

couldn’t play with words anymore. Besides, she Matt come out of

protecting her from him, Maverick investigated and found out she was the reason

way

she

Jeslyn tightly against Queen and was still doing it even now, so Maverick got to understand that Pink cannot hurt Jeslyn and the only reason why she could go all out in a Country she knew too well, just to protect ‘a friend’ of her ‘boss’ wife’was for

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takes the dose. When the dose wears off, she faints and sleeps for a

ask her where she got the dose from because he

is she to you?” He asked.

while before she opened her mouth. “Rossa is my…”

tears on her cheeks. She wiped them off and tried to return her face to its natural state but couldn’t. She stopped and fa ced the wall to let out the emotions she had been buckling up for so long. “I failed

that you? What are