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.

as she slowly closed her eyes to sleep and he remembered what Matt said to him. after

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

her memory was wiped?”

her mind into having temporary selective amnesia. If not

Jeslyn’s hand. He was sure that a cure would be found for her no matter what. Even if it means curbing the world and turning

rang. Looking at the ID, it was Rex. He answered the call and waited to hear Rex’s words..He disconnected the call after

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

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

and placed it on the

you found

be found.” Code 2 answered.

“His faction?”

apology to us and the Xu family when she took

“Mn.”

she wasn’t his wife’s enemy, he would have made her take

continued in silence until they got to a private establishment. Maverick walked inside the restaurant and someone came to walk

man standing with his back towards the door while

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

almost scary, almost like Maverick’s. But compared

was food on the table but he only took a glass

The man still

drink

“Where is Celestine?”

you never came. Your cousin was

the window. His face couldn’t be seen