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.

his rosy lips stretched into a sweet smile.

moved his

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

be afraid of fighting for

to step down.” He squinted his eyes at the TV on the wall in front of him as different schemes flash through his mind.

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

the TV, Valen intends to beat time with it until the person he was expecting shows up. news or whatever documentary they were showing

The

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the remote that was placed beside

channel, a face he wasn’t expecting to see so soon popped

owned the

other than his great-grandfather’s face.

old man for scaring him. How can he not smile and just jump into

before he could press a random button on the remote, the door clicked open. Thinking it was who he wanted to see, he turned his head towards the door with a smile but seeing the lady who hurried

this woman before and they said her name was Vera- his mother. Why was she here? He heard that his father liked her. Then since she has

trying to make her

beyond the door, believing that

Vera because she was

finally awake…”

from my sight!” Valen was getting annoyed. He thought the

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

turned his angry eyes 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 fault;

say

Jes-”

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bright the lights can be,