Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom
Chapter 183

183 Return to the family

"I feel tired and my bones hurt... I think I'm developing the flu?" Jeslyn replied weakly. 1

Maverick pressed the emergency button by the side of the bed. "It should be the side effect of the transplant."

"I think so too..." she paused. "How is Valen? Is he awake yet?"

"He fell back to sleep after coming to see you yesterday." Valen couldn't stop asking to see Jeslyn when he woke up, so he was wheeled to Jeslyn's ward.

"Yesterday? For how long have I been sleeping?" Jeslyn's brows creased in annoyance.

"Some days... Don't worry, Matt said it's not serious."

She sighed deeply before nodding.

The door clicked open, revealing Matt and a few doctors.

After examining her, Matt nodded and said: "You feel like you're getting the flu, don't you?" Seeing her nod, he smiled. "You are fine. It's just the side effect, so don't worry, the symptoms will go away after a few days."

"Thank you," Jeslyn thanked him.

Matt injected her and after he was done, he left with the team of doctors.

Maverick and Jeslyn talked for a while before she started to feel drowsy.

Maverick watched as she slowly closed her eyes to sleep and he remembered what Matt said to him. after the transplant.

"Now that Valen has been cured, what do you intend for your wife? Valen's own was a bit easier to treat because the virus didn't take too long in his body and also, and he was given good medical care. However, Jeslyn had been a carrier for eleven years and was also eating suppression pills. I'm afraid hers won't be easy to take care of... that aside, she has to stop taking the suppression pills. I'll work on better pills that would rather strengthen her immune system and help fight against the Virus. Increasingly taking the suppression pills will not only damage her health, but it would also ruin her reproductive system... the pills not only suppress the virus, but it also suppresses her memory."

"I thought you said her memory was wiped?"

"Yes. The attempt was made twice. I guess the doctor either failed or deliberately drove her mind into having temporary selective amnesia. If not because of the suppression pills, she would have long regained her full memory."

Maverick tightened his hold on Jeslyn's hand. He was sure that a cure would be found for her no matter what. Even if it means curbing the world and turning it upside down.

While in thought, his phone rang. Looking at the ID, it was Rex. He answered the call and waited to hear Rex's words..He disconnected the call after hearing what Rex had to say. Standing up, he planted a sof kiss on Jeslyn's forehead before heading out.

Maverick left the house and got inside his car. Code two passed him a laptop. Looking at the images. displayed on the monitor, he frowned slightly. It was Vera trying to open his red room door.

An evil glint flashed through his eyes as he watched. He saw her pause a few times before finally running off.

Maverick closed the laptop and placed it on the empty seat beside him.

"Have you found Damien?"

"He's nowhere to be found." Code 2 answered.

"His faction?"

"Emilee is doing a good job. She tendered an apology to us and the Xu family when she took over. The Yu faction seems to be pleased with her."

"Mn."

Such a pity. If she wasn't his wife's enemy, he would have made her take the seat forever.

The car continued in silence until they got to a private establishment. Maverick walked inside the restaurant and someone came to walk him to a private room.

Inside the room was an old man standing with his back towards the door while looking out the window. His hands were folded behind him.

Even when the door opened and closed, the man didn't turn around. "You kept me waiting."

The man's voice was deep and almost scary, almost like Maverick's. But compared to Maverick's voice, Maverick was a boy.

Maverick pulled a chair and sat on it. There was food on the table but he only took a glass of water.

"You are not afraid I would poison the food?" The man still didn't turn but knew that Maverick was

about to drink water.

"Where is Celestine?"

"I have been scheduling a meeting with you for months but you never came. Your cousin was right. Snatching one of your friends would make you crawl out." The man turned around.

His broad back blocked the sunlight penetrating the room through the window. His face couldn't be seen as he walked energetically towards the table.

"I heard you killed Judge. The family can avert the punishment coming your way if you accept my

offer."

Maverick shifted his sight from the water in front of him before raising his gaze slowly to look at the old man.

The man was advanced in his 70s-80s. His traditional attire told one of his love for his culture. His head of white hair was a witness to how long he had been on earth. His face was the definition of an ice block. So cold and frightening. From head to toe, there was nothing to leave an impression that he was a kind man.

"Where are you keeping Celestine?" Maverick asked again.

"Your friend is safe at the moment. I haven't ordered her to be killed yet. Come back to the family with your brother and take over from where your father stopped."

Maverick stood up. "If I don't see Celeste in three hours, you'll be stepping on my toes." He turned and headed to the door.

"Your wife..."

Maverick paused in his steps.

"She's involved with the half-heart. Should the world know, what do you think they'll do to her?"

Maverick's muscles tensed and he gritted his teeth. The hand in his pocket was balled in a tight fist. "Chairman Lu, on the account of my father, your son, I'll let this slide." Then he walked out. 1

A while later, a man as young as Maverick walked into the room and sat in front of the old man.

"I told you he won't budge, didn't I?"

"He will. He finally has someone he is willing to die for. Send that girl back to him, we don't need her anymore. Keep an eye on his wife instead." The old man narrowed his eyes at the door. "Yes, grandfather." The young man said before making a call. "Release Celestine and keep an eye on my Cousin's wife.”