The Ex and Her Riches

Nico belatedly looked up, only to find a pair of bloodstained hands with slender fingers tightly gripping his wrist.

Maverick had woken up.

That was not all. He had also recovered most of his strength after receiving the 023 antidote injection earlier.

He lay on the chaise lounge and turned his head to look at Nico. A faint smile curled on his bloodstained lips as he chuckled and said, “I’m not going down so easily, so pull yourself together.”

“Boss!” Nico’s eyes flashed with shock and delight, but then he continued to cry, “You scared me to death! I really thought you were gone!”

Swain, who was considerably younger than Nico, had been scared witless, too.

At that moment, the two men burst into tears in front of Maverick, completely dispensing with their image. After a while, they started laughing with relief as tears continued to stream down their faces, making for a rather comical sight.

Maverick gently patted Nico’s shoulder, comforting him, “I was just exhausted. The S404 RNA virus caused my heart and pulse to go into temporary cessation, but I heard everything you said.”

“Then why didn’t you answer me?” Nico was furious and angrily pounded on Maverick’s arm.

Stupid boss! He made me cry like a baby! I completely humiliated myself!

Maverick furrowed his brows and let out a pained grunt.

“Sorry, sorry, I shouldn’t have hit you!” Nico looked distressed. To punish himself, he hit his own right arm with his left fist.

Maverick sat up and said, “All right, tell me what’s the deal with this suppressant.”

Nico wiped the tears from his face and turned to look at Swain.

Swain nodded, sniffed, and reported earnestly, “Professor Yancey was shocked to learn that you were infected with the S404 RNA virus. This suppressant cannot cure the disease, but it can temporarily inhibit the virus, thereby allowing the body to recover for a short period of time. The effects of the medication can last up to a week at most…”

One week. Maverick considered this. That means I can stay in Fairlake for another seven days at most.

Nico chimed in, “Boss, you must go back for treatment this time. Professor Yancey has already started working on the antidote, and they need you to return for blood tests. Don’t you want to recover and have a long and happy future with Ms. Shalders?”

Maverick pursed his lips and made no reply.

He had promised Gwendolyn to disappear from her world after a year, and she still had evidence of this in her phone. To stay by her side forever was no easy endeavor, and it required some forethought.

pondered on this and remembered the plan Swain had come up with the

suddenly felt someone tugging on his clothes. He snapped out of his reverie

are you doing?”

a healing ointment for S404 burns. The least you could do is let me apply it

That makes sense.

suit jacket, then proceeded to shrug off

defining lines of his muscular back

shade of red even though it had been three days since the viral infection. At this point, the wound had already festered, and the surrounding skin and flesh had begun

someone as bloodthirsty and ruthless as Nico could not help inhaling sharply at the

water from the bathroom. Then, using a towel, he first wiped the bloodstains off Maverick’s back, then used tweezers to remove the rotting flesh surrounding the

broke out in a cold sweat, his veins

for the man and remembered the tranquilizer gun they had brought with them. “Boss, should I give you a sedative? This can hurt

023 antidote is working. I

choice but to grit his teeth and apply the

did not remain idle, either, and seized the opportunity to clean up the bloodstains on the

caught a glimpse of several figures outside the villa gates who

eyes widened as he

Maverick frowned. “So soon?”

glanced out the window again. “She came back here on foot! I don’t see Charles

choice but to speed up in applying the

just about to step through

still lying

from Bay Hill, her anxiety intensifying

had stopped hating Maverick ever since he rescued her at Crane Bridge,

them to be estranged in the future. She would never consider remarrying him, let alone returning to the Wright family to endure

not mean she

the garden, only to stumble upon Elven and the others lying unconscious

and Justin were

villa been

to examine the scene, and through his keen observation, he noticed that all

they were all knocked out by tranquilizers,” he

the other two put their guards down and lure them out of their hiding spots, thereafter knocking out all three of them at once. It could only be accomplished by

Find a way to wake them up, then ask them

the villa, headed up to the second floor, and pushed open Maverick’s bedroom

He was wearing only a thin silk

his eyes widened in surprise. He quickly fastened the last two buttons at his collar and asked, “What are you doing

a little worn out