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.

alone have 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 I was out earlier. Given the situation at hand, her poisoning is the only possible thing they could've been talking

eyes turned gloomy at the thought of

asked, “Is it

a helpless chuckle after a brief pause. “You

from Lucian for long, but she didn't

sorry I lied to you after promising

some kind of trick on us? Did he give you a fake antidote

“The antidote is real. It's just that...”

he pressed

out about her lies, Roxanne decided to not hide

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

anxiousness when he looked at her, but he soon regained his composure and said calmly, “Oh, I'm not worried. I could just go deal with him again if