The Ex and Her Riches

Half an hour later, Gwendolyn and Cedrick returned to the Harris residence at Mount Tranquil together.

Kieran and Treyton still had not arrived, while Sienna was pacing back and forth before the door as if she’d been waiting for them.

She hurried toward them the moment they stepped out of the car. “You’re finally here, Gwen.”

Gwendolyn noticed her swollen eyes and inquired calmly, “How’s Dad?”

Sienna shook her head. “Not good. The doctor says he’ll probably last around two days at most. But we’ll have to wait for Kieran’s diagnosis when he’s back.”

“Okay.”

They strode into the mansion.

The door to Marcus’ bedroom was open, and a man was sitting before his bed.

Gwendolyn had not seen Asher for around seven to eight days.

He looked completely different from before.

He’d lost a lot of weight, and his skin was dull. Moreover, the stubble on his face gave him a weathered look, making him seem to have aged a decade, although only several days had passed.

Gwendolyn had no idea, nor was she interested in knowing what he’d gone through.

“Could you please excuse us? I wish to talk to Dad and don’t want to see you here.”

Her voice was devoid of emotion, as if she were talking to a stranger.

Asher’s eyes were lowered as he departed the room in silence.

Despite his efforts to appear normal, Gwendolyn astutely observed a slight limp in his gait as he walked by her.

Is it his knee?

“Are you sure you’ve been obediently reading scriptures at the ancestral hall for the past few days?” She directed the question at Asher.

He froze and opened his mouth to speak up for himself.

Yet no sound came out from his lips as the words were trapped in his throat. As such, he left the room defeatedly without uttering a word.

and hasn’t spoken for several days. He’s recently been hand-copying scriptures and has gone for an

refused to comment

expression. “I’ll wait for Kieran and Treyton at the entrance while you

“All right.”

Marcus’ bed after Sienna was gone. She rested his wrinkled hand against her face

like some time to speak privately with Dad as

inclined his head understandingly and excused himself, shutting the

straight to look for Asher after exiting

was holding onto the banister

on an act without Gwendolyn around, and it was evident that each step was excruciating at the snail’s pace at which he

hall’s tiles were cold and hard. Therefore, his knees were swelling with pain

voiced

and quietly observed Asher, noting how challenging it was for him just to get down a level, so much so that

take

hide everything you’ve done as atonement for your crimes from

turned back and met

there any point

temper, whom

were bedridden, she would interpret anything he said as

hand to continue his journey down the

you did all this even if she saw it with her own eyes. While Evelyn was the main culprit, you were the one who hurt

wordlessly

at his back and shook

wound on his left hand from peeling fruits throbbed in

get it disinfected and

hastily, one after the other two

a beeline to Marcus’ room and conducted a full-body

the side and offered assistance

a nerve-wracking half an hour,

Sienna, and Cedrick were all seated on the couch in the

to her feet. “Kieran,

clot in his skull that hasn’t been removed from the last time he took a fall. It has now spread and is affecting his central nervous system. He will be brain-dead soon. Even if we insisted on operating on Dad,

the hall was shrouded

from her and

dashed to her side and wrapped