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.

she slowly closed her eyes to sleep and he remembered what Matt said

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

thought you said her memory

made twice. I guess the doctor either failed or deliberately drove her mind into having temporary selective amnesia. If not because of the suppression pills, she would have long

hand. He was sure that a cure would be found for her no matter what. Even

call and waited to hear Rex’s words..He disconnected the call after hearing what Rex had to say. Standing up, he planted a soft kiss on Jeslyn’s forehead

laptop. Looking at the images. displayed on the

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

laptop and placed it on the empty seat

found

to be found.” Code 2 answered.

“His faction?”

the Xu family when she took

“Mn.”

enemy, he would have made her take the seat

Maverick walked inside the restaurant and someone came to

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

when the door opened and closed, the man

man’s voice was deep and almost scary, almost like Maverick’s.

There was food on the table but he only took a glass

poison the food?” The man still didn’t turn but

to drink

“Where is Celestine?”

have been scheduling a meeting with you for months but you never came. Your cousin was right. Snatching one of your friends would make you crawl

through the window. His face couldn’t be seen as he walked energetically towards the table.