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 to him.

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

thought you said her

twice. I guess the doctor either failed or deliberately drove her mind into having temporary selective amnesia. If not

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

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

car. Code two passed him a laptop. Looking at the images.

evil glint flashed through his eyes as he watched. He saw her pause a few times

the laptop and placed it on the empty

you found Damien?”

be found.” Code 2 answered.

“His faction?”

a good job. She tendered an apology to us and the Xu family when she took over. The Yu faction seems to

“Mn.”

wife’s enemy, he would have made her

private establishment. Maverick walked inside the

with his back towards the door while looking

the door opened and closed, the man

and almost scary, almost like Maverick’s. But compared to Maverick’s voice, Maverick

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

poison the food?” The man still didn’t

to drink

“Where is Celestine?”

came. Your cousin was right. Snatching one of

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