“Roxanne, you’re finally awake! You have no idea how frightened we’d been. I thought… I thought you…” Madilyn trailed off, unable to finish her sentence.
Roxanne had just woken up from her coma, so the gears in her head were slow to turn. After a while of recollecting herself, she recalled what had happened before she fell unconscious.
“Was I unconscious for that long?” she asked in disbelief as she shifted her gaze from Madilyn to Lucian. When she saw how haggard he looked and noticed the red veins in his eyes, a wave of guilt crashed into her. “I’m sorry to have worried you both…”
Then she tried to sit upright on the bed. However, she had been in a coma for three days, so she did not have the strength to do that. “Just lie down on the bed. How do you feel? Do you feel unwell anywhere?”
Madilyn knew what Roxanne was trying to do, and she quickly pressed her friend back down on the bed. Roxanne had no choice but to do as Madilyn said. She then asked worriedly, “Where are the kids? I was unconscious for so long. They must be freaking out.”
She remembered how the children had tears streaming down their faces the last time she fell unconscious. Every time she thought about that, her heart would ache. I wonder how they reacted to this….
Lucian caressed her cheek in a soothing manner as he said to her, “They don’t know about this yet. I told them you went on a business trip and will only be back tomorrow night.”
Roxanne relaxed a little at that, but her attention was back to his exhausted look. Slowly, she reached out to touch his face. Lucian let go of her.
“Have you not rested these days?” Roxanne asked, her brows furrowed as guilt appeared in her eyes. It was her first time seeing Lucian looking so tired.
Although Lucian had also been worried the last time she was unconscious, it had not been long before she woke up. However, she learned that, this time, she had been out for three days.
She was sure that Lucian had not rested during these days. His bloodshot eyes and eye bags were a clear sign of that.
“I’m just glad that you’re awake. Nothing else matters. It’s just a few days of sleep.” Lucian chuckled, unbothered. He reached out to grab Roxanne’s hand and squeezed it. “I’m glad that you woke up in the end.”
During the few hours of waiting, he had come up with a plan to deal with the Damaris family. Luckily, Roxanne had woken up. Another wave of guilt washed over Roxanne. “I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have been stubborn.”
If she had known that things would turn out this way, she would have gone to the hospital in the afternoon when she felt unwell. She might not have made them worry so much if she had done that instead, and she might not have ended up this way.
Lucian continued holding onto her hand gently and carefully. His voice was deep and soothing as he said, “Nothing matters as long as you’re fine and well. This isn’t your fault. In fact, it’s mine.”
It’s his fault? Roxanne was confused. She did not know why Lucian would say that. Did something else happen while I was unconscious?
After saying that, Lucian dropped the topic and started asking about how she was instead. “How do you feel now?” It was then he realized that he had not summoned the doctor, so he turned to Madilyn and said, “Could you please call the doctor?”
Madilyn bobbed her head, and when she went out of the room, she asked Elektra to go with her. Lucian had been blocking most of Roxanne’s vision, and Elektra had been subconsciously standing away from Roxanne’s line of sight, fearing that she would make Roxanne upset.
Roxanne did not notice that there was a fourth person in the room. It was only when Madilyn led Elektra out did Roxanne see her.
“She’s…” Roxanne started, turning to Lucian in confusion. She did not think much about it, thinking Elektra was Madilyn’s friend. After a moment of silence, Lucian said honestly, “She’s my friend.”
Roxanne stiffened. “I don’t remember seeing her around.” Regardless of whether it was six years ago or six years after, the only friends of Lucian she knew of were the two from the Queen family. She had never heard of the other woman in the room.
Lucian explained, “She’s the Lane family’s daughter. The Lanes are family friends of the Farwells, but before you married into the Farwell family, the Lanes went overseas to develop their business. They didn’t come back during that time, and we didn’t contact each other either. She just returned to the country two days ago.”
Roxanne nodded in understanding. “Did she come to meet you?” Right then, she noticed the clock on the wall. It was already six in the morning.
No one would come to the hospital for a chat with an old friend at a time like that. Furthermore, it seemed that Elektra had been around for a while..
Hesitation flashed past Lucian’s eyes. Roxanne knew him like the back of her hand, so she instantly figured out that something was up. Grabbing his sleeve, she asked, “Also, what happened to me? I remember diagnosing myself before I went into a coma, and I was showing signs of poisoning…”
However, she had no idea when she had been poisoned. A look of shock flitted across Lucian’s eyes. He knew that Roxanne was medically skilled, but he did not know she was as capable as this.
The doctors he had hired could not do anything about her case, but she had managed to figure out the cause of her condition just by taking her own pulse. “If you realized that, why didn’t you tell me about it?”
Roxanne lowered her gaze guiltily. “I… I didn’t think it’d be this serious, and I didn’t want you to worry about me. In the end, I still made you worry so much.””
Lucian was exasperated, but there was nothing. he could do about it. “You have to tell me right away if you feel unwell in the future.”
Roxanne nodded meekly. “Have you found out what kind of poison is in me? You must have, right? I wouldn’t have woken up otherwise.”
If she learned what kind of poison had been in her system, she might be able to figure out when she had been poisoned. Lucian nodded. “Jack used an essential oil to poison you, but they haven’t come to a conclusion as to what was in the poison.”
“Jack?” Roxanne was baffled. “Why would he do that?” The Damaris family is a family of doctors. Why would they let Jack poison me with the medicinal herbs? Moreover, how could Jack be so vicious? What is he trying to do?
Roxanne’s surprise was something Lucian had expected. Nevertheless, he did not plan to hide anything about Jack from her. He wanted her to find out how dangerous Jack was so that she would stay far from him.
“Every time you talked business with him, he had been using an aroma lamp to diffuse the poison he made. The poison only takes effect after a few times of exposure,” Lucian revealed Jack’s nefarious plan. A thought popped into Roxanne’s mind when she heard that. “No wonder…”
“No wonder what?” Roxanne met his eyes and said, “I clearly rejected him about the collaboration with Damaris Group, but Jack suddenly came to the research institute and asked to have a talk about it in the car. I caught a whiff of something in the car, but I didn’t dwell on it at that time.”
It must have been the last dose of poison from Jack. Upon realizing that, Roxanne found a chill running down her spine when she thought about Jack’s face. “I thought he was benevolent because he was a doctor, but now I’m starting to doubt my beliefs…”
She could not believe a Damaris would be that devious. “That’s why I said it’s my fault that this happened to you.” Lucian’s guilt and self-blame were visible in his eyes.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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