The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Half an hour later, Gwendolyn and Cedrick returned to the Harris residence at Mount Tranquil together.

Kieran and Treyton still had not arrived, while Sienna was pacing back and forth before the door as if she’d been waiting for them.

She hurried toward them the moment they stepped out of the car. “You’re finally here, Gwen.”

Gwendolyn noticed her swollen eyes and inquired calmly, “How’s Dad?”

Sienna shook her head. “Not good. The doctor says he’ll probably last around two days at most. But we’ll have to wait for Kieran’s diagnosis when he’s back.”

“Okay.”

They strode into the mansion.

The door to Marcus’ bedroom was open, and a man was sitting before his bed.

Gwendolyn had not seen Asher for around seven to eight days.

He looked completely different from before.

He’d lost a lot of weight, and his skin was dull. Moreover, the stubble on his face gave him a weathered look, making him seem to have aged a decade, although only several days had passed.

Gwendolyn had no idea, nor was she interested in knowing what he’d gone through.

“Could you please excuse us? I wish to talk to Dad and don’t want to see you here.”

Her voice was devoid of emotion, as if she were talking to a stranger.

Asher’s eyes were lowered as he departed the room in silence.

Despite his efforts to appear normal, Gwendolyn astutely observed a slight limp in his gait as he walked by her.

Is it his knee?

“Are you sure you’ve been obediently reading scriptures at the ancestral hall for the past few days?” She directed the question at Asher.

He froze and opened his mouth to speak up for himself.

Yet no sound came out from his lips as the words were trapped in his throat. As such, he left the room defeatedly without uttering a word.

lost his voice and hasn’t spoken for several days. He’s recently been hand-copying

silently and refused

her remote expression. “I’ll wait for Kieran and Treyton

“All right.”

Marcus’ bed after Sienna was gone. She rested

time to speak privately with

inclined his head understandingly and excused himself,

for Asher after

banister

no longer had to put on an act without Gwendolyn around, and it was evident that each step was excruciating at the snail’s pace at which he

cold and hard. Therefore, his knees were swelling

check-up the day before and voiced the possibility of him being diagnosed with rheumatism

noting how challenging it was for him just

to take

you’ve done as atonement for your crimes

back and

there any point in her

knew better than anyone what his sister’s temper, whom he’d cared for since childhood, was

if he were bedridden, she would interpret anything he said as a

gaze and released Cedrick’s hand to continue his

she saw it with her own eyes. While Evelyn was the main culprit, you were the one who

in wordlessly and resumed his excruciating crawl

stared at his back and shook

hand from peeling fruits throbbed in pain, reminding

get it disinfected

arrived hastily, one after the other

immediately made a beeline to Marcus’ room and conducted a full-body check-up

the side and

nerve-wracking half an hour,

on the couch in the

“Kieran, how is

removed from the last time he took a fall. It has now spread and is affecting his central nervous system. He will be brain-dead soon. Even if we insisted on operating on Dad, he wouldn’t

the hall was

felt the energy drain from her and swayed on her

to her side and wrapped her in his

curled up in his arms. Her right

sorrow she felt for the sake of