Mission To Remarry

“Madilyn. She's worried about me and kept asking how I'm doing,” Roxanne replied with a smile.

Lucian nodded and asked casually as he sat down beside the bed, “I noticed that one of the doctors was out when I arrived. Did he tell you where he was going?”

The smile on Roxanne's face was frozen in place when she heard that.

She wasn't expecting Lucian to even notice such details, let alone ask about it.

After taking a few seconds to regain her composure, Roxanne replied as calmly as possible, “I'm not sure. I'll be fine as long as there are people around. It doesn't matter if one or two of them step away for a bit.

She then let out a helpless sigh and added, “I've already regained consciousness, so you don't need to have so many of them standing by. You should let them head back and get some rest.”

Lucian seemed to be in deep thought as he retrieved an apple from the grocery bag and slowly peeled it.

me buy them from a store so far away. I know she probably needed some time alone, but I can't seem to figure out why... Hmm... Her reaction and that of the experts outside the ward all seem rather suspicious. She must've told them something while

turned gloomy at the thought

he asked, “Is it true that the poison has

chuckle after a

Lucian for long,

lied to you after promising to not keep secrets from you just earlier,” she continued with

flames of anger began to burn within his eyes. “Did Jack pull some kind of trick on us? Did he give

antidote is real. It's just

tone grew increasingly colder as he

found out about her lies, Roxanne decided to not hide anything from him.

dosage he gave was incomplete. I would need at least four to five times more of what he gave me in order to completely rid my body of that poison. I had a discussion with the experts earlier.

his composure and said calmly, “Oh, I'm