The Ceo’s Convict Wife

Chapter 991

Lillian could only knock on the door and ask, “Callum, are you okay? Should I inform Dave and have a doctor come check on you?”

However, the response she received was a profound silence. After some time, she finally heard a hoarse voice coming from the room. “I-I’m fine. N-No need to get… the doctor.”

Every word Callum uttered came out with such difficulty.

When Lillian continued to inquire, all she heard was Callum’s voice. “Stop… talking. I want to be alone! Lillian, consider it… as my plea to you.”

Lillian stopped talking and quietly stood guard at the room door.

Callum had no idea how he got through the night. It was as if he had been hollowed out. “This is my mother’s way of treating her son, huh?” he commented inwardly.

When the sunlight streamed in through the curtains and bathed him in its glow, his eyelashes fluttered slightly. Then, he slowly opened his eyes.

He was disheveled and worn out. It had been a while since he felt this way.

Callum took a set of fresh clothes and entered the bathroom, allowing the warm water to wash over his body.

His mind flashed back to the events upon returning to the manor the night before.

He had come dangerously close to harming Lillian and the baby in her belly the night before.

Callum did not expect that the one causing him the deepest pain would be his biological mother.

flashed in Callum’s eyes at the thought of that.

to the extent that she thought she could manipulate me as she liked,” he

a child. He was no longer Ysabel’s pawn. Her

believed Ysabel was seething with anger at that moment.

his clothes and opened the room door. As soon as the door opened, he was momentarily stunned.

her and was covered with a blanket. The noise from Callum opening the door caused her to startle awake. Lillian instinctively opened

washing its face! He could not help but find

stay outside my room door

in his chest. It spread through his veins. Right then, he

woman always managed to

her exclaim, “Callum, are you okay?

rose to her feet. Her hands touched all over his body. She even tiptoed and reached out to feel his

now,” answered

that the temperature of his forehead had returned to normal. He was not burning up like the

you eat something you shouldn’t?”

and stared

The way you were yesterday… It seemed similar to a novel plot. Did someone set you up? Did they want to force themselves on

Lillian was brilliant or naive. At times, she seemed rather naive. Yet, in moments like this, her guesses were surprisingly

me. But, there won’t be a next

spoke, his expression darkened, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

for a while. All she felt

deliver a fatal blow in