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 he remembered what Matt said to him. after

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

said her memory was wiped?”

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

for her no matter what. Even if

the call and waited to hear Rex’s words..He disconnected the call after hearing what Rex had to say. Standing up, he planted

images. displayed on

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

the laptop and placed it on the empty seat beside him.

you found

be found.”

“His faction?”

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

“Mn.”

pity. If she wasn’t his wife’s enemy, he would have made her take the

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

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

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

scary, almost like Maverick’s. But compared to

and sat on it. There was food on the table but he only took a glass of water.

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

drink water.

“Where is Celestine?”

months but you never came. Your cousin was right. Snatching one of your friends would make you

broad back blocked the sunlight penetrating the room through the window. His face couldn’t be seen as he walked energetically towards the table.