#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 60
*Two days later…*
At the hospital, Rex sat beside a gorgeous-looking lady wearing a flowy white gown. Her segzy red lips had a sweet smile gracing her flawless face as she spoke with Rex who was drinking a canned drink.
“She’s so pretty. Despite sleeping, her glow could not be hidden. It’s a pity. A face like hers will bring her fortune and misfortune in that toxic industry.” She sighed.
“Celeste, leave Jeslyn alone. She might look weak but you wouldn’t want to taste her tongue.”
“Oh, that’s interesting, tell me more.”
“That woman is savage. If she appears to be naive and brainless sometimes, it’s just a way of protecting herself.”
“Hmm … white lotus… the main ingredient to be successful in the industry. Impressive. I like her.”
“Do you have a choice?” Rex rolled his eyes.
Celeste rolled her Charming blue eyes at Rex before she asked: “When is Chaos coming?”
“He should be here any time soon.”
Just then the door clicked and opened. Maverick walked into the VIP ward. Celeste and Rex stood up and bowed slightly to greet him.
“Brother you’re here.”
“Chaos, long time no see,” Celeste smiled and Maverick nodded at her before he went to stand beside Jeslyn’s bed.
“Where is the doctor?” Maverick asked.
“I’m here,” a team of doctors walked into the room. Some went to examine Jeslyn while the others stood there taking records.
“When will she be awake?” Maverick asked.
“She should be awake by this evening or tomorrow morning. Her situation is not that bad. Her eardrum is perforated due to a loud explosion… ” the team leader explained.
Maverick turned his head in Rex’s direction. Rex nodded. He saw Jeslyn’s phone on the floor and when he checked her phone, her last received call was from Ray who happened to be ki||ed in an explosion. He connected the dots, that was how he guessed what happened to Jeslyn.
“Like I rightly stated, it’s nothing serious to worry about. A perforated eardrum or a hole in the eardrum as we call it goes away on its own after a few weeks. Probably two to three weeks. However, the patient has to come for checkups once a week to see if a problem is arising so we can get rid of it immediately.” The team leader said again.
“What does she need to do while waiting for her ear to heal and also, will it affect her singing career?” Celeste asked.
“She should prevent anything liquid or cotton buds except eardrops that I’ll recommend from entering her ear. She shouldn’t blow her nose too hard. Since she’s a singer, I’ll say she should heal completely before doing anything with her voice, because you singers sometimes get too carried away that you stretch your vocal cord or cause vibrating sounds with your throats which might affect her ear.”
“Ok, that’s doable. Aside from the eardrop, is there something else you can recommend for her to use? I believe it hurts.” Rex asked.
“Yes. She should take painki||ers. That’s all… Ehm, I took her blood sample because our policy is to thoroughly test a patient before commencing treatment. There’s a virus in her blood and it seems to be suppressed. How about you let us check what it is and immediately start treatment because… ”
“Discharge her now,” Maverick said with his voice deeper than usual.
“But…” The doctor was reluctant to let Jeslyn go. He was also a scientist and loves to experiment on new diseases. The patient seems to have that, so he was excited to test her.
“Hehehe, doctor, I was here all along and you didn’t ask me before drawing her blood, what if I accuse this hospital of having malicious intentions against my sister-in-law?” Rex beamed while Celestine chuckled.
The doctors looked flabbergasted at the three people in the ward. Maverick was pulling out the needle on Jeslyn’s wrist.
“Th– that’s not, that’s not…” the doctor tried to speak but no words came out. He was stunned by that accusation. If the management found out what he did, they will fire him.
Rex stepped forward and gently brushed the doctor’s white coat on the shoulder. “Don’t freak, be calm. We won’t hurt you.” He smiled and followed behind Maverick and Celestine who had left with Jeslyn in his arms.
A while later, inside the doctor’s office, the man could be seen talking to someone on the phone.
“Yes, I found a patient with a new virus in her blood bu… bang!”
The door to his office was pushed open and the doctor abruptly raised his head to see the blue-haired young man of earlier beaming at him. The doctor immediately stood up and ended the call. He looked scared and anxious.
“You should have locked your door with a key.” Rex raised the silenced pistol and pressed the trigger without a warning. A hole appeared in between the doctor’s brows. Rex smiled and waved at the man before he left the office.
In the car, Maverick stared at the woman sleeping on his lap for a long time before he brushed the strand of hair on her face away while saying: “Rossa, you don’t get tired of getting into trouble, do you?”
“She is a magnet that attracts trouble,” Rex said from the driver’s seat.
“Only a troublesome woman can stand beside Chaos, so it’s a goal.” Celeste said
“Just like how only a cool woman like you can stand beside me.” Rex winked.
“Rex Lu, are you aware I’m 5 years older than you?” Celestine raised a brow.
“I like older women. Being 25 doesn’t stop me from being your type.”
“I am taller than you,” she added.
“Credit to six inches heels.” Rex rolled his eyes.
While the two were bickering, Jeslyn was standing at the entrance of a hall where a grand party was being held. She could see a younger version of her, about 18 years old holding a knife to a tall cake decorated with cream pink color.
“Happy birthday!!” The people screamed. All of them were teenagers the party looked to be a party for teenagers. Jeslyn saw Christine who was by her side cutting a cake and raising it to Jeslyn’s lips.
“Happy birthday, older sister.”
Jeslyn could see herself opening her mouth to accept the cake before another young lady handed her a glass of wine. “It’s your 18th birthday today, it’s time to break the rule of ‘no alcohol’ in your life.”
Jeslyn could see herself avoiding the drinks she was being offered until Christine picked up a glass and handed it to her while others cheered her on.
She drank the wine even though she didn’t want to and the party continued until she started to sway. Two girls who had been really close to Jeslyn offered to take her into her room, after all, the party was over. They were just having after-party fun.
The two girls took the drunk Jeslyn to her room and left, but after a while, a room service pushed a cart into the room.
“Young Miss, is your party over? I brought the hangover soup Miss Christine asked me to prepare…”
While she was talking, the door burst opened and two hefty men entered the room. One dragged the waitress out and the other carried Jeslyn.
The waitress was taken to the top of the building. While she was scared and didn’t know what the stoic-faced looking man wanted with her, she heard him say:
“You did nothing wrong, blame your misfortune for being at the right place at the wrong time.” Then he grabbed her and pushed her down the roof.
The waitress’ scream was heard but before the people who saw her falling while screaming could do anything, she fell on top of a parked car and left her life behind.
Inside a dark room, Jeslyn was placed on the bed, beside a body whose figure wasn’t clear. The person touched her all over and she couldn’t help but respond with Mõ@ɲs.
The imaginary Jeslyn tried to see who the man her younger self was having s3x with was, but she couldn’t see through the darkness surrounding him.
Jeslyn woke up to a white ceiling. When she turned to her right, Maverick was sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and head resting on the headrest.
Jeslyn sat up and fixed her gaze on him. She didn’t think much of the dream. After all, this wasn’t the first time she was seeing it. That’s where the dream always ends.
Looking at the devilishly dashing man, everything Ray told her came running back into her mind.
‘Is he really Alpha Chaos? Did he do that to the Zhou family?’ the more she thought about all that, the more confused she became.
“Should I ask him?” She murmured to herself. Jeslyn was shocked when he opened his eyes. Her heart thumped faster when he got up and walked in her direction. His eyes were bloodshot and his face was filled with a murderous look.
This was not the Maverick she knew. She shook her head in her mind. She was never this scared of this man, but right now, she just wanted to run away.
On a second thought, he had never hurt her before, he showed her kindness and followed her with goodwill. So, why was her heart rejecting him? Was it because he is Alpha Chaos?
Alpha Chaos’ reputation is known far and wide to be bad. So was that why?
“Are you okay?”
Jeslyn flinched when she heard him ask and instead of answering, she nodded slowly.
“Is your ear still hurting? How did it happen?” He already knew what happened but wanted to hear it from her.
Jeslyn’s mind snapped and she gazed at him intently while reminding herself that he won’t hurt her. “Was it you?”
“What?”
“Ray, what happened to him?”
“Died in a car explosion.”
Jeslyn swallowed the lump that was forming on her throat with difficulty. “Wa– was it your doing?”
Maverick shook his head but Jeslyn was skeptical. She didn’t know if she should believe him or not but why would he lie to her? He has no reason to, right?
“Th– then, did you… did you ki|| his family?”
Maverick shook his head again.
“Wh–”
“Did he tell you who I am, and now you are scared of me?” Maverick raised a brow.
Jeslyn kept swallowing without answering. Wasn’t it obvious that she was scared?
“I– I… when did you… When did you intend to tell me?” She looked into his eyes, trying to find the warm Maverick she have known over 4 months but all she was seeing was a stranger.
“Are you scared of me, Rossa?”
Jeslyn lowered her gaze to the blanket that was half-covering her. After a long while of deaf silence in the room, she finally looked into Maverick’s eyes again and responded. “I’m not scared.”
Maverick stared back into her eyes. She was lying but he liked it. He preferred she told him that lie than the truth.
He shut his eyes and after a while, he opened them again and the eyes became more clearer and less imposing than earlier.
“Why do you care about Ray? Do you still like him?” He suddenly asked.
“I – I thought you did those things to him and his family, so I wanted to confirm.”
“My question hasn’t been answered, Rossa.”
Jeslyn opened her mouth and closed it a few times like a goldfish. “That question is weird,” she finally found an answer.
“Why?”
“Why not? He caused the death of my grandfather, he was helping my enemy.”
“What if I turned out to be worst than him? What if one day I ki|| someone dear to you, will you push me away?”
Jeslyn looked speechlessly at him. She doesn’t have anybody like that except … wait, Pink and Yellow…. She looked skeptically at him and her brows creased.
“Pink and Yellow might be your subordinates but I consider them my older sisters.”
“Will you push me away if I ki||ed them?” He asked again.
“If I mean something to you, you won’t hurt those I fancy. Unless they mean me harm.”
“And if they break my rules?”
“Then, I’ll beg for their pardon, or buy them from you.”
“I don’t lack money. What can you offer?”
“Name your price, I’ll do everything in my power to give it.”
Maverick flattened his lips before he nodded. “Fine. When the time comes.”
What kind of a person doesn’t have a trusted subordinates? Thinking of subordinates, Jeslyn remembered the Lee Butler and Nanny.
“Ehm, Maverick, can you help me find Butler Wong and Aunt Martha? They were the oldest workers in the Lee mansion. Ray said that those two didn’t betray me but were instead, protecting me. Please help me find them and send them over.
“Hmm.”
“So… how is Valen? Has he woken up?”
“He’s fine. He drifted back to sleep after receiving treatment.”
Jeslyn nodded and a smile finally settled on her lips. “Then– Vera? How is she doing with her memories?”
“She’ll get her memories back if she wants to. Worry about me. I’m your husband.”