THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 21 – 30
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 30
Yellow looked at her with pity in her eyes. If only Jeslyn knows that getting a divorce would make her already complicated life even more problematic.
Yellow thought of the brighter side of everything. It was good that the man she married was Alpha Chaos and not the Yu guy, or the Xu guy.
If she had married the enemy, what would they have done? It seems Pink has a reason for not wanting to tell her why she loved Jeslyn so much. Because the minute Pink saw news of Jelsyn getting in trouble, she immediately ordered for Jeslyn to be sent to prison to be with her.
Yes, to Jelsyn, the person who sent her to prison was her hidden enemy… the young Miss. But the truth is, almost everything was Pink’s doing.
Pink made the public lawyer given to Jeslyn behave like a c*nt in court. She made Emma busy and threatened Ava’s manager to not allow Ava to appear in court, preventing them from attending the testimony.
Pink also made the person in charge of the prison send Jeslyn to Pink’s cell even though Jeslyn was not supposed to be in their prison cell in the first place.
Sometimes, Pink purposely allows the inmates to bully Jeslyn just to make her shed her weak persona. However, all the prisoners who dared to raise their hands on Jeslyn, they are already below 6ft.
As for the Chen family, well, Pink didn’t do much to them. She only did a little something to put them in a stagnant position. They can’t grow beyond how they are.
“…Yellow!”
Yellow was pulled out of her reverie at Jeslyn’s scream. “What is it?” She asked.
“You were spacing out and aren’t answering my inquiries,” Jeslyn said with a sad pout.
“Sorry about that. What were you saying?”
“I… I can’t remember,” Jeslyn didn’t want to say because she was angry that she got ignored.
Yellow sighed and shook her head, “petty,” she smiled. “Oh, you talked about a contract. What were the terms?”
Jeslyn shrank until she became small inside her blanket.
Seeing this, Yellow couldn’t hold back her amazement and let out a peal of boisterous laughter.
“Little bunny, you didn’t read the contract before you signed it,” she said without a doubt.
Jeslyn nodded in slow motion.
“Hahahaha… What else should I have expected? So, what have you been doing since you don’t know what was expected of you?”
“Making trouble for that little villain… talking of that child, where is he?” Jeslyn could remember that she felt a small hand on her back before she lost her senses.
Her heart jumped when she saw Yellow giving her a pitiful look.
“W– What? What happened to him? Where is Valen?” Jeslyn started to feel anxious as she asked the questions without stopping to take a breath.
“Calm down, the little master is fine, but I don’t think your days in this house will be as quiet as it has been.”
“What do you mean?” Although she was told to calm down, Jeslyn couldn’t find herself calming down.
“Little master dislocated his wrist. He wouldn’t say what happened, but Pink suspects it has something to do with you because for the past five days, he has been coming here to give you a slap on your cheek… hahaha.”
“F–five days?!…” while her eyes widened in shock, Jelsyn’s hands hurriedly touched her cheeks and yelled, “you little demon!… But wait, you said his wrist was dislocated?” She frowned.
Jeslyn put aside the fact that she has been unconscious for five days and immediately settled with Valen’s situation.
“Yes. It’s been five days already, so he’s getting better, as for you, doctor Matt said you can’t leave your room until you start your treatment, because if you get another trigger by accident…”
Yellow paused and hesitated. Pain flickered through her cold eyes for a brief moment that didn’t escape Jeslyn’s eyes.
“What will happen to me?” Jeslyn asked, a little alarmed.
Seeing this, Yellow decided to not talk about it anymore and changed the topic.
“You should find a way to get those contracts you signed and read through them. Once your husband sends them to Spid, even if the world ends, he won’t change his statement. However, you still have a chance to make him change the statements that aren’t to your advantage.”
Yellow advised before she got up and hurried out in large strides to prevent Jeslyn from asking her another sensitive question.
“Hey, older sister…”
Bang!
The sound of the door getting slammed shut Jeslyn up.
She took a deep breath and shut her eyes to remember what the last doctor told her grandfather after her last attack.
“Chairman Lee, your granddaughter’s illness is not known, you have to prevent her from getting triggered, or else she won’t live past five years.”
Jeslyn opened her eyes and brushed back her silky smooth and long hair.
She had always known about her illness and had embraced it. However, if she doesn’t pay those people back, her soul will find no peace which was why her conscience was tormenting her.
Jeslyn partly blames herself for her family’s downfall. She feels that if she hadn’t let Ray into her life, things might have been different.
She also feels that if she hadn’t aggravated her grandfather, he wouldn’t have been so upset and his death wouldn’t have come so soon.
Jeslyn wiped the tear that found its way to her cheek before she got off the bed to go check on Valen.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 21 – 30
Inside Maverick’s study room…
Matt and Maverick were seen standing in the dimmed room.
Maverick had his back to Matt who seemed to be saying something.
“Her illness is a result of virus ingestion. The chemical has the properties of the Xu family’s ATOM.”
Maverick turned around to look at Matt, “ATOM?”
Matt nodded, “yes.”
Maverick knitted his brows in deep thought.
“Mav, how did your wife get to know about ATOM and the Xu family? Only the Xu family has such drugs in the whole world, so how did she get in contact with it?”
“How long has the virus been in her body?” Maverick asked.
“Around eleven years.” Matt cautiously looked at Maverick before he continued, “she shouldn’t have been able to survive this long unless she’s being given a suppression pill. She might be a test subject… like Va–”
“Shut up!” The air around Maverick suddenly turned cold and his face changed.
Matt sighed and took a step towards Maverick. He stared him in the eyes and said with caution. “How about we test the treatment on her? If it works, Valen will get well too–”
Maverick turned his back to Matt in silence.
After a long silence in the room, Matt shook his head and continued, “she’s a nobody to you. Why are you caring for her? Rex told me how you two got entangled in this marriage. Since it’s for a year, you should take advantage of the opportunity in front of you. Let’s use her to test out the treatments I came up with–”
“Matt…” silence dominated the room after Maverick spoke. “Take your eyes… off her. Or else, I’ll rip your sister apart.”
His words were unhurried. Drawing the words to make Matt understand his meaning which Matt didn’t fail to comprehend.
Matt is one of the best doctors and scientists in Country M. He’s a maniac when it comes to his profession.
The Xu family had produced a deadly virus called ATOM and for over a decade, Matt didn’t stop to find the antidote. Because he couldn’t make it, Matt became obsessed with the research and whatever opportunity he finds to get closer to the cure, he never gives it up.
“Fine, you don’t have to get my sister involved. I won’t touch Jeslyn, but–”
“Why are you still here?” Maverick asked without warmth in his voice. Not that he has ever spoken with warmth to anyone except Jeslyn though.
“Your health…” Matt paused to see if Maverick would be aversive to the topic. When he didn’t, Matt continued, “your lack of sleep is getting to you. You look strained. I know you don’t take the sleeping pills I leave for you, but Mav, you should take them so you can have a good sleep for once.
What would Valen do if something were to happen to you? How will he get to see his mother? Please Mav, I’m not asking you to do this for yourself, but do it for your son. He has every right to a healthy father.”
Matt sighed after his lecture. He knew that he was talking to an unfeeling robot, so he wasn’t expecting anything. After all, this isn’t the first time he had gone out of his way to advise Maverick but all his suggestions fall on deaf ears, always.
“Drop it there,” Maverick said curtly.
Matt was taken aback for a few seconds before he smiled and took out a bottle from his bag and placed it on the desk.
“What about Fin? When are you going to unblock him? It’s been a year already, Mav–”
“Aren’t you done here?” Maverick turned around and asked.
“Yes, I should probably leave now,” Matt said before he turned and walked out.
Maverick narrowed his eyes in deep thought for a while before he picked up his phone and dialed a number.
“The Xu family… disturb them for a while.” Maverick put the phone down after that. He didn’t state for how long the Xu family should be messed with, however, it was clear that Country M would be a mess for a while.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 21 – 30
Maverick sat on his seat and picked up a pen to write. Then he thought of something and put the pen down.
He pulled open the drawer attached to the desk. There were two mini boxes inside. One was red and the other was black. He took out the two boxes and opened the black one.
Inside it laid a leg chain. The chain has a small heart pendant with the letter “M” written on it.
Maverick held the pendant and brushed through the letter on it, lost in thought for a moment before he placed it back into the box, closed it, and put the box back.
He picked up the red box. As he was about to open it, he heard the doorbell to his study room.
Maverick raised his emotionless gaze to the door and slowly narrowed his eyes. Nobody except Rex and Valen comes to his study.
Valen can’t ring the bell and Rex can’t come without calling, so the only person that could violate his rule was…
He ignored the door and proceeded to open the box….
“Ding Dong! Ding Dong! Ding Dong!….”
Maverick closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He picked up a remote from the desk and clicked on it. The door opened and as he had thought, Jeslyn walked in Wearing bum shorts and an oversized white shirt that stopped a little above the black shorts.
Her pretty black hair was left in a messy bun.
Walking towards the desk in an elegant manner that cries to everyone that she was a rich heiress, Jeslyn stood in front of his desk.
She looked effortlessly exquisite, still Maverick didn’t look at her more than necessary.
Jeslyn coughed in her fist, feeling awkward all of a sudden. The confidence she had while coming here suddenly evaporated into thin air.
Looking at the most handsome man she had ever seen, Jeslyn’s cheeks slowly turned pinkish without her permission.
She tried to maintain a straight face, besides, she had seen him a few times, but the black shirt he was wearing was way too beguiling for her to take her eyes off him.
His crisp black shirt which he folded on the arm has a few buttons opened at the front, revealing his toned chest.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 21 – 30
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