An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 7

“Is he awake?”

Everyone was stunned when they saw Andrew return to consciousness. The doctors were dumbstruck when they noticed the monitors showing Andrew’s vital signs were all normal. Who would have expected a young man like Dustin to cure an unknown disease that had stumped the entire specialist team? This was unheard of!

“That’s amazing! Grandfather is awake!”

Ruth burst into tears of happiness when she saw her grandfather’s recovery. Natasha also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Mr. Rhys, I don’t know how to thank you for this. From now on, you are the Harmon family’s honored guest!”

She bowed deeply to Dustin.

“You’re welcome, Ms. Harmon. It was no trouble at all.”

Dustin gave her a small smile. However, Dustin’s humble words irked Dr. Jansen. He and his team had done all they could to cure Andrew, but this punk called it “no trouble at all?” Clearly, Dustin was insulting them indirectly!

“Hey, you! What’s up with the centipede? Why would there be a centipede in my grandfather’s body?” Ruth spoke up.

“This is not a normal centipede. It’s actually a venomous curse.” Dustin turned to Andrew. “Mr. Harmon, where were you recently? Have you eaten anything out of the ordinary?”

“You’re spot on. A few days ago, I was at Millsburg for a party and drank some wine.” Andrew nodded.

“If I’m not mistaken, you must have been cursed,” Dustin concluded.

“Cursed?”

Andrew was taken aback. The rest of them stared at each other in surprise. After all, it wasn’t every day that someone got cursed.

“Don’t spout nonsense! It’s illogical that this could be a curse! If you ask me, Mr. Harmon must have ingested centipede eggs by mistake!” Dr. Jansen interrupted.

any normal centipede eggs would have been digested by the stomach’s acid! It’s fine if you are

Jansen shut up when he

for your diagnosis. I will investigate this

before, however, she had no personal experience. Who would have thought that her grandfather was suffering from

you should feed him this prescription for five days to remove the toxins from his body.” Dustin scribbled on some

you so much, Mr. Rhys.” Natasha took

since there’s nothing more

see you off.”

do with

mentioned that he was going to eat those insects. Since he was the one who requested it, we shall fulfill

Dr. Jansen

another hospital room, a similar scene of chaos was

me? Please, you have

with his head bound up tightly. Only his nose and

even with him for you!” Florence comforted

it is unthinkable that Dustin had the nerve to physically assault both of you!” A handsome young man dressed in a suit spoke up. He

went mad and hit my son like

Was he such a crazy person?” Chris frowned. “I know some thugs who can teach him a lesson.

be great!” Florence

him. Fracture a bone or two!” James snarled in

he is

was it possible that a useless bum like him could have such an attractive and successful lady as his wife? Chris couldn’t pass

room suddenly. She was dressed in a slinky black

here! Look at me, I’m terribly hurt!” James sat up immediately and pointed at his bandaged

what happened and apologized over the phone. Let’s forget about it and move on,”

you kidding me? I was beaten black and blue! An apology isn’t going to cut it! What do

what do you