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.

closed her eyes to sleep and

Valen has been cured, what do you intend for your wife? Valen’s own was a bit easier to treat because the virus didn’t take too long in his body and also, 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 fight against the Virus. Increasingly taking the suppression pills will not only damage her health, but it would also ruin her reproductive system… the pills not only suppress the virus, but it

said her memory

or deliberately drove her mind into having temporary selective amnesia.

He was sure that a cure would be found for her no matter what. Even if it means curbing

answered the call and waited to hear Rex’s words..He disconnected the call after hearing what Rex had to say. Standing

and got inside his car. Code two passed him a laptop. Looking at the images. displayed on the monitor, he frowned slightly. It was Vera trying to open

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

placed it

found Damien?”

nowhere to be found.”

“His faction?”

tendered an apology to us and the Xu family when

“Mn.”

wasn’t his wife’s enemy, he

got to a private establishment. Maverick walked

an old man standing with his back towards the door while looking out the window. His hands were

door opened and closed, the man didn’t turn around. “You kept me

like Maverick’s. But compared to Maverick’s

chair and sat on it. There was food on the table

poison the food?” The man still didn’t turn but knew that Maverick was

to drink

“Where is Celestine?”

you never came. Your cousin was right. Snatching

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