Returning from the Dead: His Secret Lover

“Can I fly back home to receive treatment?” Edmund asked.

Right after he said that, the doctor glared at him angrily. “Are you serious? If you insist on boarding the plane, you’ll die on the way back!”

Edmund fell silent.

“All right, he’ll stay. I’ll pay the fees now!” She grabbed the notice from the doctor and left to pay the medical expense for him.

A few minutes later, Edmund’s subordinate arrived. He noticed that Edmund seemed pleased, though he was lying in bed. No one would’ve known that he had been beaten to a pulp a while ago!

“Mr. Edmund? Are you okay?” he asked carefully.

“Mm?”

Edmund put on a calm look and sat up to look at his subordinate.

“Have you settled everything?” he questioned tersely.

“Yes. You told me. Mr. Cooper would be there soon, but he didn’t show up, though I waited for two hours,” the man stated doubtfully.

Edmund looked away.

He was back to his usual aloof self. Impatiently, he said, “How would I know? Those men told me he would be there soon when they released me.”

to learn

me join them. I

it! His subordinate turned pale.

out and called Benedict, who

you here?

Benedict, who had just gotten

but he just told me he agreed to

expected, Benedict

gripped his smartphone as his chest heaved

he a fool? Why did he agree to work for them?” he

Mr. Cooper, those people must’ve tricked him. He told me they claimed you agreed to let him join, so he agreed

the Cooper family would agree to work for them.

allow any of the Coopers to work

own son

airport and hailed a cab

was. After his subordinate rushed out to make a phone call and returned with a contorted expression,

are you looking like that? Are you upset that

men lied to you? Mr. Cooper didn’t agree for you to join them!” the subordinate

Edmund went silent.

the receipt,

go talk