Mission To Remarry

Old Mr. Lomax!

Colby's eyes were filled with shock at Lucian's words.

He even managed to hire Old. Mr. Lomax. Even more surprisingly, Old Mr. Lomax couldn't handle Roxanne's condition. Otherwise, Lucian would not have come to see me today.

“What else did the old gentleman say?” He was desperate to hear Peregrine's diagnosis.

Lucian shook his head, his expression dark. “Old Mr. Lomax is still perusing the medical literature for a way to cure Roxanne.”

Colby turned grim; his eyes thoughtful. “Let me mull it over. I will think of something.”

Mr. Lomax couldn't save her. I need to do

and over again in

furrowed as he tried to decipher any information he could from those words.

he could not think of any medicinal herbs that could match the drug's efficacy.

frustrated.

susceptible to the smells of medicinal herbs, including rare specimens that have passed through her hands. She would have noticed something if she smelled

at the sight of Colby's panic. “As you said, despite Old Mr. Lomax's skill, there isn't anything he could

up with something, Dr. Jarvis would be

“Why do

and that it would not be unusual for Roxanne to idolize him, but Colby's words seemed

something, Colby said, “I have worked with Dr. Jarvis to develop several medications that would undoubtedly be of great interest to the industry, some of which were based on Old Mr. Lomax's research. He should have had

had disappeared without warning years ago and left behind much half-done research. He had even released it to the world, hoping that somebody would