The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Approaching with respect, the nurse placed the pill box from her tray onto the table in front of Gwendolyn.

Gwendolyn cradled her baby in one arm, feeding the little one with a bottle. With her free hand, she reached for the pill box on the table and examined its contents.

The nurse stood quietly beside her.

Before she touched the pill box, Gwendolyn suddenly noticed something strange.

“That’s not right. On the first day of a new medication regimen, the attending physician should personally administer it. Furthermore, the doctor should be the one to bring the medicine and communicate the dosage to me instead of a nurse.”

She turned her head. “Why are you here?”

A sinister gleam appeared in the nurse’s eyes. The moment Gwendolyn turned to look at the nurse, the latter swiftly produced a syringe filled with anesthesia from behind her back and ruthlessly stabbed it toward Gwendolyn’s neck.

Gwendolyn, holding the baby, struggled to fight back with one hand, finding it challenging to exert force. Meanwhile, the nurse viciously used both hands to overpower her.

The needle pierced Gwendolyn’s neck, but she clenched her teeth and unleashed a powerful kick, causing the nurse to stumble to the side. The sedative in the nurse’s hand failed to enter Gwendolyn’s body.

A thin scratch marred Gwendolyn’s fair skin, and small droplets of blood began to well up from the wound.

Benedict began crying in discomfort at the sudden, lurching movements.

Gwendolyn did not have time to console him. In response, she swiftly placed him back in the crib, covered him with a thin veil, and engaged in a fierce battle with the woman in the nurse’s uniform.

Free of the hindrance of holding the baby, Gwendolyn, a skilled black belt practitioner of jiu-jitsu, swiftly gained the upper hand in the fight and ended it in no time.

Pressing down on the woman’s artery, Gwendolyn immobilized her by pinning her arms onto the table. She demanded, “Who sent you? What have you done to the police officers outside?”

Not only was the commotion loud, but the battle taking place in the room could also be partially seen through the small glass window in the ward.

However, the cops Cedrick had stationed outside the door did not come bursting in when they heard the commotion. Something must have happened to them.

door are dismissed and will not be back for another half an hour. I’m not alone. There will be more of us here in another five minutes to

at Benedict, who was crying

are you taking the baby away? He’s so young. How could he have

struggled to speak. “How would I know? I’ve already told you, capturing me is pointless. I don’t know any secrets of my employer. If the child is too young to have done any harm, it must have been the

turned cold as she continued pinning the

aware of Benedict’s ward number and the specifics of his illness. It was clear that

the mastermind an enemy of mine or

any further, Gwendolyn offered, “How

said, her tone conflicted. “It’s a matter of honor and principles. If I were to betray my employer halfway through, who would ever trust me

head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Now that I’ve captured you, do you really think you have any chance of escaping prison, let alone continuing your criminal

remained adamant. “No way. I’m not that type of person. I’m not going to

you

seconds of silence, the woman clearly began to sway. “Ma’am, I

her off by raising the offer. “Twenty

“Deal!”

way to an ingratiating one as she smiled cheerfully and said, “As long as you keep your word, Boss, I

did not respond and loosened her

she analyzed the entire situation with a

which hurt from Gwendolyn’s firm grip, and began expressing her concern for her

tranquilizer guns and tasers, and we’re

to openly declare your allegiance to me. Just do what they told you

woman froze. She gazed at the baby in the other woman’s arms and appeared slightly

she cares about the child, would she really let me

ward one

nurse’s uniform had already tied Gwendolyn up

disarray in the ward and the women’s disheveled hair left no doubt that there had

happened?” asked the man in

She had sent the baby to the attending physician, who seems to have entered