A Replacement Bride

Chapter 158

"Me?" Xavier pointed to himself in bewilderment as he blinked at Katherine innocently. "I don't recall having any stuff to do."

She shoved a set of keys into his hand and urged, "I'm sure you have. Now, hurry up and go back home, as in your apartment upstairs. Come back down for dinner later. Bye!"

Just like that, Xavier was practically frog-marched out of the door, and he was still in a daze as he stood out in the hallway. He glanced at the keys in his hand, and it took him a while to register what had just happened. Did Katherine just give me an apartment? One that's worth a dozen million?

At the thought of this, he couldn't care less about the reason why Katherine had been so eager for him to leave. He hummed happily as he went upstairs to check out his new abode.

Meanwhile, there was an amused smirk playing on Joaquin's lips as he gave Katherine a knowing look.

She cleared her throat and turned to address him primly, "Don't you have work to do or something?"

"The only work I have today is to stay here and keep Grandma company," Joaquin answered matter-of-factly.

He looked and sounded so serious that Katherine paused in surprise. A second later, she said, "Fine, then. Stay here and take care of her for me while I head out for a bit."

She had to drop by Theodore's research institute and go through the results of the latest clinical trial. At the same time, she was going to assess the patients' conditions and how they were reacting to the drug.

"Where are you going?" Joaquin asked curiously.

"The research institute," Kathereie replied frankly.

"Be safe," he said.

on a change of clothes and left home

arrival, she made a beeline for the laboratory first to review all the patients' data that had been

saw Katherine in the laboratory. "A few of the patients who have recovered have already been discharged, but Mr. Muller brought

here." Katherine asked as she

answered dutifully, "Mr. Rosenburg and Mr. Rhodes. They were both discharged yesterday after Professor

pulled out Alex's folder. Her face turned grim when she read

not at all noticing the shift in Katherine's expression. Without another thought, she bustled off to

another patient's medical record. She flipped through the folder, then took the record with her as she

becoming more conspicuous.

his mouth with a tissue. Then, he stood up and gave a self-effacing laugh as he asked, "What

seat and cut to the chase. "Dina told me that two patients were

he caught the look on her face. He resumed his seat and pressed anxiously, "Is

stared at the man in front of her sullenly and asked, "But do you think you could get Alex to come

a

back for further observation," she said solemnly. A grim look registered on her features as she elaborated, "The results might have been favorable in his case, but you failed to consider that he was comatose for nearly twenty years after he took a bullet to the head. We can't discharge him and guarantee that nothing will happen to him, nor that he has fully recovered. He must be kept here for at least three months of observation, and it's only after he does not display any complications that we can declare him as

this, and without wasting another second, he pulled out his

part in the clinical trial because we trusted you. You promised us that the medication your research institute came up with could revive brain cell activity, so why is Alex's condition deteriorating? What did you do to him?" He faltered, and all the color drained from his face as he asked urgently,