Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

183 Return to the family

“I feel tired and my bones hurt… I think I’m developing the flu?” Jeslyn replied weakly. 1

Maverick pressed the emergency button by the side of the bed. “It should be the side effect of the transplant.”

“I think so too…” she paused. “How is Valen? Is he awake yet?”

“He fell back to sleep after coming to see you yesterday.” Valen couldn’t stop asking to see Jeslyn when he woke up, so he was wheeled to Jeslyn’s ward.

“Yesterday? For how long have I been sleeping?” Jeslyn’s brows creased in annoyance.

“Some days… Don’t worry, Matt said it’s not serious.”

She sighed deeply before nodding.

The door clicked open, revealing Matt and a few doctors.

After examining her, Matt nodded and said: “You feel like you’re getting the flu, don’t you?” Seeing her nod, he smiled. “You are fine. It’s just the side effect, so don’t worry, the symptoms will go away after a few days.”

“Thank you,” Jeslyn thanked him.

Matt injected her and after he was done, he left with the team of doctors.

Maverick and Jeslyn talked for a while before she started to feel drowsy.

sleep and he

was given good medical care. However, Jeslyn had been a carrier for eleven years and was also eating suppression pills. I’m afraid hers won’t be easy to take care of… that aside, she has to stop taking the suppression pills. I’ll work on better pills that would rather strengthen her immune system and help

you said her memory was

failed or deliberately drove her mind into having temporary selective amnesia. If not because of the suppression pills, she would have

on Jeslyn’s hand. He was sure that a cure would be found for her

disconnected the call after hearing what Rex had to say. Standing up, he planted a soft kiss

the house and got inside his car. Code two passed him a laptop. Looking at the images. displayed on the monitor, he

he watched. He saw her pause a few times before finally running

placed it on the empty seat beside

you found

be found.”

“His faction?”

an apology to us and the Xu family when she took over. The Yu faction seems

“Mn.”

wife’s enemy, he would

they got to a private establishment. Maverick walked inside the restaurant and someone

with his back towards the door

door opened and closed, the man didn’t turn

was deep and almost scary, almost like Maverick’s. But

a chair and sat on it. There was food on the table but he only

not afraid I would poison the food?” The man still didn’t turn but knew that Maverick

to drink water.

“Where is Celestine?”

you for months but you never came. Your cousin was

penetrating the room through the window. His face couldn’t be seen as he