Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

184 Awake!

In a white hospital room, little Valen slowly opened his eyes and looked around the room with a few machines serving different purposes. Beside him were doctor Matt and a few doctors and nurses who were checking the monitors for the progress of his health. C

“Valen, you’re awake. Doctor Matt smiled.

“Uncle Matt, Valen’s weak voice sounded.

“How are you feeling?”

“I don’t feel pain anymore. I’m not feeling sleepy, nor weak either… but I’m hungry…Am I alright?”

Matt nodded when he heard that. “You are pretty much healthy now, just that you’ll be in a wheelchair for a few weeks to a month so your body can adjust in those weeks.”

Valen darted his eyes around the room but couldn’t find the person he was looking for, so he asked: “How is mummy?”

Your mummy is fine. She doesn’t know you’re awake yet. I’ll get your father to inform her.”

Valen slowly nodded. He tried to sit up but the needle on his wrist didn’t allow him free movement, so Matt helped him rest his back on the headboard.

“If you need anything, press the emergency button by your bedside… You can do that, can’t you?”

“I can… I need water.”

“Bring him warm water,” Matt ordered and a nurse walked to the side to pour Valen water from the flask that was sitting on a tray, placed on a light blue trolley.

After drinking, the TV was put on for Valen before Matt and the doctors left.

rosy lips stretched into a sweet smile. “I’m

hand a little above his head. He did the same to the left hand and moved his legs under the blanket before

were stiff and he couldn’t walk. At first, he thought he had become a cripple but after being assured that it was the side effect of the transplant, he breathed a sigh of relief. Now that he had confirmed that

be afraid of fighting for

at the TV on the wall in front of him as different schemes flash through his mind.

Jeslyn a lot behind his back but now that he was awake, he’ll take her back

at the TV, Valen intends to beat time with it until the person he was expecting shows up. news or

The

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remote that

change the channel, a face he wasn’t expecting to see so

owned the

than

face suddenly popped up. He almost cussed the old man for scaring him. How can he not smile and just

the door clicked open. Thinking it was who he wanted to see, he

that his father liked her. Then since she has been found, it means that his father’s happiness was complete, and

trying to make her

behind her, he crammed his neck to see beyond the door, believing

because she was blocking his view.

y-you’re finally

Valen was getting annoyed. He thought the first

go? This is how she’ll miss her glory and allow someone else to steal it.

at Vera, thinking she was the reason Jeslyn was not here. Didn’t uncle Matt he would inform his father to get Jeslyn? It must have been this stranger’s

say

Jes-”

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seen how bright