Bumpkin's Rich Handsome Husband

Chapter 277 Hijack

Crayson was both a master and father figure to Veronica. Hence, it was only normal for her to be worried.

She had asked him repeatedly to move in with her parents instead of staying in his house up in the hills, but he turned her down every single time. Now that something as grievous as this had happened, she couldn’t help fretting over him even more.

“I’m warning you, Master Crayson, if you don’t wake up right now, I’ll—”

“Oh, for heaven’s sake, can you just cut it out? I’m trying to sleep here!”

Just as she was grumbling under her breath, Crayson blinked his eyes slowly and woke up. When he saw Veronica sitting next to the bed, he stared at her in bewilderment. Perhaps the open-cranial surgery had left him a little disoriented because he couldn’t quite respond to her presence.

“Master Crayson, you’re awake!” Veronica exclaimed happily when she realized that he had regained consciousness. She patted the back of his hand while exclaiming, “Thank goodness. If you hadn’t regained consciousness, I would have thought you were a goner!” As she said this, her voice thickened without her realizing it.

Crayson softened and started to register his surroundings. When he felt Veronica clutching his hand, he let out a breath and glared at her pointedly. “Pull yourself together. It’s not like I’m dead or something.”

“Hey, don’t jinx it,” she countered cheerily. “You can’t die until you witness me walk down the aisle. In fact, I won’t let you die until after you’ve trained my kid how to wield a strong punch, so hold on till then, okay?”

Though she could joke, she was actually terrified. Then again, an average person would need about a day or two to regain consciousness after intracranial surgery. In any case, Crayson must be stronger than he looked if he woke up just hours after the surgery.

“You ingrate,” he bit out gruffly, snorting. “Training you was the most work I’d ever done, and I can only imagine how much worse it will be to train your kid. I’m not a babysitter, you know.”

“Well, if you’re against taking in little kids that much, then you should move in with my parents. The three of you can keep an eye on one another, and I wouldn’t have to worry all the time.”

He did not hesitate to reject her proposal. “No, I can’t do that. I’m used to living on my own, and it’d be awkward for me to live with your parents.”

a bridal store, and I could use a good security guard with mean skills. It’d be a shame if someone with your prowess is just hiding

him if he agreed to go back with her; he would be by her side at all

guard?’ Crayson’s eyes lit up. “In

gleam in his eyes, she frowned and

curb of Mudwood Street, right outside the main square, and watching the youngsters party the night away. She distinctly remembered seeing someone who looked

disappeared into an alleyway and she never saw

up, and she completely forgot

“I don’t even know how to get around Collins, much less navigate the streets of Bloomstead. You might as well ask me if I

in amusement. “You have a point. I mean, you’re not entirely literate either, so you’d

“Has Master Crayson awakened?”

a carrier bag full of take-out just as the mood

him and the food he had in tow, Veronica’s stomach rumbled,

of food, nor did she have the appetite to. Now that he was awake and appeared to be in good spirits, she felt the knots in her stomach unclench, and naturally, she began

it isn’t Matthew! I slipped and fell, now look at the sorry state I’m in. I do have to apologize for making you come all this way though,” Crayson said. Owing to his years of practicing martial arts, he was stronger and more

replied. “I brought enough food to feed a small army. Care to join

out of an operation not too long ago, so he can’t have all those carbs and fats,” Veronica interjected, then tipped her head to the side as she smiled

as she had been moments ago, and her good humor

the beds and opened up

eat somewhere else; the smell is too overwhelming for my

she said defiantly. “I’ll be

in