THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 14
“Get lost!” Fin threw him a pillow.
“You are forgetting it’s my house. I can throw you out like you just threw my pillow. When I tell you guys to stop running after quiet ladies, you won’t listen. Quiet ladies are ruthless, especially those that love you but know you don’t love them, so it’s even. Just throw her out and return to your carefree life.”
“Rex, just go.” Inspector Fin shooed him away before concentrating on the laptop.
Inspector Fin sighed and ruffled his already messy hair. Before his father died, he left his best friend’s daughter under his protection… Well, they were engaged from young. The girl had no family anymore either.
Fin didn’t intend to do anything with her but the spirit of beautiful ladies tempted him. Though she was at fault because she seduced him and now, she’s making his carefree life difficult. She wants a baby and he’s not intending for such a joke to happen.
Clicking on the send button, the laptop screen suddenly went blank.
Fin sighed. “So troublesome. You should know who you are messing with.” he took his phone and called Maverick.
“We got evidence on that witch that resides in your house. I tried sending it to you but it was intercepted by those people.”
“I’ll handle it from here,” Maverick responded before disconnecting the call.
Fin closed the laptop and lay on the couch to sleep. He was on break from work but cannot spend his time at his house. It’s not that he cannot get that girl to leave him alone but his family owes her family a huge favor, so for that, he’s tolerant of her.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
The week flew by in a blink of an eye. Maverick and Jeslyn returned to the Country.
On arriving at the house she used to stay, Jeslyn found that changes had been made. Everything, from the sofa to the painting was changed to give the house a more ‘lively’ vibe.
Jeslyn doesn’t have issues with the idea of redecorating the house but where her problem lay was– the perpetrator!
She knew Maverick wouldn’t give the order for the sitting room to be painted white. The paint on the wall before now was nude. The brown couches were replaced with white couches. The brown curtains were changed to gray curtains. The center table brown rug was replaced with fluffy white rugs.
Although the sitting room still looks classy and luxurious, it looked boring and dead, just like Vera.
Maverick seemed not to care about the changes in his house. Provided the interior decor (Vera) didn’t go near his floor, then she’ll be fine. Jeslyn is the madam of the house. If she cannot handle such things, then it’s a pity. With that in mind, Maverick left Jeslyn and the maid in the sitting room and headed to his room.
“Welcome back, Madam,” Riya smiled and grabbed Jeslyn’s handbag as Jeslyn stood by the door in wonder.
“Thank you,” Jeslyn released the bag to her.
“Where is Vera?” Jeslyn asked. The house smells of Vera, so she didn’t need to ask to know that Vera made the changes.
“Ms. Vera is in her room,” Riya answered.
“Ok… hope nobody changed my room and Valen’s room?” Jeslyn asked while the two were heading to her room.
“She wanted to but I stopped her.”
“Oh, she wanted to redecorate my room because my room was an eyesore?” Jeslyn asked a rhetorical question with her lips curled.
Anger was brewing inside her and Riya could feel it. Good thing she was on Jeslyn’s boat.
Getting to her room, it was just as she left it. After surveying the room, she turned and went to Valen’s room. It wasn’t redecorated. She nodded in satisfaction before heading downstairs to look for the butler.
“Butler Xuan, I don’t like this decoration. Call the interior decor and have them change everything back to how it used to be.”
The butler looked at her and smiled, “yes, Ma’am.”
“Also, from now on, if it’s not Chef May or I cooking what my husband eats, don’t serve it… give me the list of all the servants in the house and what they’ve been up to lately. I think there are surveillance cameras around the house, get me the videos from the time I left until now.”
“I’ll have someone send it to you in a moment.” The butler interjected.
“Good.”
The redecoration of the house didn’t take long. In no time, the house was back to how it used to be, thanks to the many workers that were brought in.
Jeslyn was in her room watching the CCTV footage. Despite spending hours doing it, she couldn’t find what she was looking for.
“Stupid me, if what I was thinking happened, would Vera leave any evidence behind?” Just when she was about to close her laptop, she saw an unfamiliar maid coming out of Vera’s room.
Jeslyn checked the rest of the footage but the lady couldn’t be found anymore.
Jeslyn called Riya into her room and showed her the maid’s picture. “Where is this maid?”
“I have no idea. I’ve never seen her before.”
“Oh, so she’s new,” Jeslyn said.
“I’m not sure. This face is a stranger’s. Unless she’s one of the guards who was disguised as a maid for some reason.”
“That sounds about right too. You may go… wait. How deep has Vera’s influence dug into the servants and guards?”
“She appeared to be kind and generous, so all the servants except for Chef May, Butler Xuan, myself, and a handful of servants, others were very enthusiastic and treated Ms. Vera like the madam of the house… actually, some called her that.”
“Compile the names of all the servants who aren’t loyal to this household and send them packing,” Jeslyn instructed. So that Vixen was pretending to not have a choice with but compel everyone else to see her as the madam of the house, interesting.
After she was done delegating tasks and watching the majority of the servants leave in tears, Jeslyn went to see Maverick in his study.
“Plum, you said you’ll have Rex send Valen home. Where is he? I want to see him.”
Maverick got up from his chair and took Jeslyn to one of the rooms on his floor where he warned her to not enter.
Inside the room, Jeslyn was shocked to know that it was a laboratory. She saw Valen lying on a bed with tubes on him and his eyes closed.
Her eyes started to sting when she saw her boy like this but she stubbornly held it in. She walked to him and sat beside the bed. Jeslyn held his small hand and slowly caressed it before turning to look at Maverick.
“Who cleans him up?”
“The nurses.”
“Can I make it my job from now on? I want to be a part of his recovery. Who knows, he might wake up to yell at me for washing him the wrong way.” Jeslyn smiled with tears in her eyes.
“Ok,” Maverick gave her the permission she sought. Funny how a father gives his wife permission to care for their child.
“Thank you, Plum.” Jeslyn turned back to Valen. Even though the child had been sleeping for months, he was still looking healthy. Just that color had drained from his once rosy skin.
“Valen, child… I’m finally here. Sorry for not coming for so long. Mummy needed to get her life back on track. You once said that mummy doesn’t sing well, but now, I’m certain you’ll be proud of me. I composed a song for you. I intend to also make it my debut song, but only if the song is strong enough to wake you up…. Valen, child, aren’t you tired of sleeping? Isn’t your back hurting?… That dark place must be cold and lonely. Come back to mummy. I miss our fights… Listen, your daddy cheated on me. I also want to cheat on him but only with you…” Jeslyn swallowed and wiped her tears.
“They say that children are their mummy’s greatest support. It’s true, Valen. Your daddy wouldn’t have dared to hurt me if you didn’t abandon me and go to sleep. Come back, please. I have a lot of things to report to you… including… Valen, mummy is so pitiful. My family left me, you abandoned me and now, someone wants to take you and your daddy away from me…”
Valen’s index finger moved. Jeslyn didn’t notice because she was too engrossed in her tale but Maverick noticed the change. He glanced at the monitor too and the numbers changed.
He quietly walked away to get Matt. When both men returned, they met Jeslyn singing.
Her voice and the sound stirred something in Matt’s heart but he immediately brushed it off and headed to do his job.
Maverick, on the other hand, was impressed at his wife’s massive progress. Valen would indeed be deeply ingrained in her voice when he wakes up.
Seeing doctor Matt approaching, Jeslyn got up and created a space for him.
Matt opened Valen’s right eye and flashed a small torchlight into it. Valen’s eyes shook and he tried to blink.
Matt did the same to the other eye and got the same response.
“Send him for brain scanning,” Matt instructed the nurses and doctors that were following him around.
They carried Valen from his bed and transferred him to a rolling bed, then pushed him into another room.
Jeslyn anxiously grabbed Matt’s white coat and asked in panic; “Doctor Matt, what’s wrong with Valen’s brain? Hope he’s fine?”
Matt looked down at her fair hand that was holding tightly unto his coat and gently took it off. “Let’s hope he’s fine after the test.” He walked away after that.
“Plum, wh– what does he mean by that?”
“Take a deep breath.”
“No, tell me, what does he mean?!”
Maverick pulled her into a hug. “Valen will be fine. He might have felt your grievance and wants to wake up.”
“Really? Are you telling me the truth? Maverick?”
“Mn,”
Jeslyn couldn’t contain her joy as she held tightly onto Maverick’s lab coat. She really hoped that Valen would wake up.
After forty minutes, Matt returned and smiled at Jeslyn. “Congratulations, Valen is awak…”
“Maverick, Valen is awake!!” Jeslyn jumped from the chair and flew into Maverick’s arms. Tears of joy streamed down her cheeks as she tried hard to suppress her happiness to not scream.
Seeing how happy Jeslyn was, Matt didn’t know if he should continue. But if he doesn’t, Valen will be in another trouble.
“Ahem…” Matt coughed to pull Jeslyn’s attention.
“Valen is awake but his bone marrow was damaged by the virus, so Mav, like we discussed, get others here to be tested.” Matt turned and headed back inside.
“What is he talking about?” Jeslyn frowned.
“It’s a bone marrow transplant. It’s nothing serious.” He said and Jeslyn breathed a sigh of relief. There’s no way that matching bone marrow cannot be found, right?
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
A few hours later, Matt was staring at the results he got from everyone he did a test on and couldn’t help but shake his head. “Mav, we can only wait until the newborn is out.”
“No need, test his mother,” Maverick rejected the idea.
“We already tested Vera, who else are you referring to?”
“Jeslyn.”
“Are you serious right now?”
“Just give it a try, will you?” Rex hissed.
“Alright. Get her in.”
Jeslyn didn’t ask questions when she was told to get a test. She readily agreed to be tested. She saw Valen as her son and would rather die than allow anything to happen to him.
Doctor Matt came out with the result a while later and much to their excitement, it was a match.
“How is this possible? Mav, Rex, what are you hiding from me?”
“Get her blood and do a DNA test with Valen,” Maverick said before heading out.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
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