Wooing My Ex-Wife

Chapter 185 Still Alive 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.

He pondered on this and remembered the plan Swain had come up with the last time.

in thought when he suddenly felt someone tugging on

reverie and saw Nico

you doing?”

on your back can’t be treated by ordinary medicine

has provided a healing ointment for S404

let me apply it on your

That makes sense.

hesitate to unbutton

jacket, then proceeded to shrug off

between the defining lines of his muscular back was a palm-sized

of red even

this point, the wound had already festered, and the surrounding skin

It looked grotesque.

as Nico could not help inhaling sharply

to fetch a basin

towel, he first wiped the bloodstains off Maverick’s back, then used tweezers to

his veins bulging

a pang of sympathy for the man and remembered

I give you a sedative? This can

” “Don’t worry.

antidote

handle

no choice but to grit his teeth and apply the

and seized the opportunity to clean up the bloodstains on the

of several figures outside the villa gates who were running

paused his cleaning and took a proper

Shalders is back! Ezra and Justin

glanced out the window

came back here on foot! I don’t see Charles

Nico had no choice but to speed up in applying the ointment

just about to step through the

gasped dramatically as he

no way we can cover this up…” Gwendolyn ran all the way back from Bay Hill, her anxiety intensifying with every

hating Maverick ever since he rescued her at Crane Bridge, and

best for them to be

him, let alone returning to the

that did not mean she was prepared

only to stumble upon Elven and the others lying unconscious

and Justin were both

villa been burgled? Justin stepped forward to examine the scene, and through his keen observation, he noticed that all three of the unconscious men had a pinprick

Shalders, they were all knocked out

Gwendolyn’s expression grew somber.

and the other two put their guards down and lure them out of their

be accomplished

them to the

them up, then ask

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

found Maverick sitting on the edge of

only a thin silk shirt that he was currently

saw her walk in, his eyes