Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

313 No remedy?

Lolita coughed a few more times as she rubbed her neck. ‘Monster!‘ she thought. 1

Why would she even think that someone like Matt would be easy to woo? A person who is friends with Alpha Chaos!

However, no matter what, she’s just starting and would never stop until he accepts her or gets

married. With that thought in mind, Lolita’s lips broke into a beam.

After Matt left the hospital, he went straight to Maverick’s house.

Inside Maverick’s dimmed study room, Matt was seen sitting on a couch while Maverick was standing by the window and staring at the bright city.

“The suppression pills‘ experiment failed,” Matt stated.

Maverick froze. After a long time had passed without hearing anything from Maverick, Matt continued; “I tried the pills on those who just got injected and it worked. But for those who had it for years, it failed… A patient also died because of the experiment.”

Maverick finally turned around and asked; “You’re saying, she’ll die?”

Matt nodded. “If she takes the pills, she’ll die and if she takes the old pills, she’ll also die.”

Maverick stayed silent for a long time before he asked; “No other remedy?”

Doctor Matt shook his head, “No-”

“Then, what the f*ck are you doing here?!” Maverick frowned.

being told? That his wife would die?? Is Matt insane?!

I’m here to know what’s going on with her body

stone, Matt said.

to his seat. “She’ll be

the stone didn’t disappear from her ring?”

head in

“Or, has the ore returned

him like an idiot without answering.

when he saw that demeaning look. “Don’t blame me, it’s weird.” Then he changed the topic; “What do you intend to do?

Maverick

How did they set you as

said and pulled out a sparkling knife

eyed the knife before continuing: “May, this is more complicated than I thought. I’m sure

for now, the Rainborite ore has disappeared. The stone on Jeslyn’s ring should have left too, but it stayed. It’s something to worry about now because The SIN has gotten involved. If they can’t get the Ore, they’ll want the

the knife and it stabbed into the bull’s eye

to start a fight with them? They are not the Dark–Age organization that can’t kill you because they need you! The SIN

if Nancy loses her son

horror. “Y–yo-

knew that The SIN faction which is more villainous than the

until the mission has been accomplished. They don’t care if they sacrifice half of

anywhere. Even though the stone was broken into different pieces, once the Ore disappears, it takes along the rest of the tiny stones that were used by the

Rainborite stone stayed with her when others

while later, Matt finally asked what had been bothering his

Is there a sign of a missing page, missing words, or anything at all

it, didn’t

Matt sighed and stopped talking when he saw Maverick about to get up from

chair.

board. Pulling out the knife, he said; “That’s