Chapter 113


    113 The truth about Valen


    “Ehm…Maverick, I’ve been thinking… Well, uhm, I wanted to ask. What happened to Valen’s mom?”


    She looked at his side profile. She knew they weren’t close enough to talk about these things but


    curiosity got the best of her. D


    “Why?” He asked without looking at her.


    “I just… I’m wondering what would happen if she returns while we were still… you know, married.” She


    lowered her eyes at her wedding ring, then shifted her gaze to his fingers but there was no wedding


    ring on it.


    This wasn’t the first time she noticed it. He doesn’t wear his wedding rings. Not that it mattered though,


    after all, the ring was never his size, so… but then, why was she feeling…disappointed? 3 Wait! Is this


    the feeling of disappointment? But why? It never mattered to her, so why is she suddenly feeling bad


    about it? This is stu pid. It must have been that she’s unknowingly stressed out because of Valen’s


    condition, yes, that’s right. She concluded.


    “She left. She won’t return…she doesn’t want to return.” He replied with his eyes still on the road. He


    had searched everywhere for Vera but it’s like she disappeared into thin air. 5


    Did he just exin to her? Like, he really answered her!


    Jeslyn was ted. She immediately started to test the waters with the questions she had in mind for a


    long time, hoping he would answer a few, if not all.


    “Did you two have a fight?”


    “Hmm,”


    “Oh…that’s bad. But you shouldn’t have let her leave. Why didn’t you go after her?”


    Maverick ttened his lips into a thin line. After a long time, he parted his lips: “I did.” He replied without


    much interest. (10


    Jeslyn immediately knew at once that he didn’t want to talk about that, so she changed the topic.


    “Valen missed her a lot. Although he looked tough, that child is a bunny inside, just like me.” She


    smiled bitterly. “He doesn’t deserve to be treated that way by the both of you.” She paused to rein in


    her emotions.


    “Maverick, are you aware that that boy has so many traumas? He is literally like every other child that


    wants to cuddle up in the middle of his parents. Deep down, that boy wants to run around the


    compoundughing out loud with you and his mother ying with water guns. He wants to attend a


    regr school like every other kid out there. That child wants to wear colored clothes, and he wants to


    eat what every other child is allowed to eat, but Valen was forced to be reserved because of how you


    and that vixen raised him. And his mother too, I want to p her across the face and say mean things


    to her when I see her one day.”


    After she was done ranting, that was when she realized Maverick had pulled up and was staring at her.


    Jeslyn coughed awkwardly and blushed due to embarrassment. She knew she had crossed the line.


    “I’m


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    sorry, I shouldn’t have interfered in how you raise your son, but I couldn’t help it.”


    “Why did I marry you?” He didn’t sound angry nor joyful.


    “I’m not sure.” She replied.


    “I married you so you could change him.”


    “Huh?”


    “I brought you in when Mn was still there and didn’t fire her because I wanted him to see the


    difference between you both and make a choice on how he wanted to live his remaining days.”


    Maverick took a deep breath. He didn’t believe he would start exining his actions one day. Here he


    was trying to exin his reasons to this woman. Why?


    Jeslyn swallowed. Was he exining himself to her? Maverick doesn’t do that, so why? He used to


    ignore her when she asked personal questions. So what changed now?


    “Ah? What do you mean by ‘his remaining days’?” It finally hit Jeslyn that Maverick’s words were


    ambiguous.


    Maverick turned his gaze to the road and started the car. After a long silence, he finally spoke up. “He’s


    si ck… the same virus as yours.”


    you mean?”


    Jeslyn got the biggest shock of her life after hearing that. “Wh- wha- what do you


    He looked at her without answering and took his phone from the phone stand. With one hand on the


    steering, the other scrolled through his phone until he found what he was looking for. A chat between


    him and matt.


    He threw the phone on herp and focused on driving.


    Jeslyn mindlessly picked it up and started to go through the conversation. It was all about the progress


    of the sickness. She stopped reading when she saw the part where Matt said the child only has


    between a year and two to live. He also said that the symptoms wouldn’t be frequent nor would they be


    serious. Sometimes it might be a mild headache, other times it might be a cold or mild fever. When


    those signs show up, the child should be sent to theboratory.


    “Why haven’t you sent him there?” She asked in a tearful voice.


    “Matt is out of the Country.”


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    “Th- then? Send Valen somewhere else!” Jeslyn felt a sharp pain tearing her heart apart. She clenched


    her chest as she let out a heart-wrenching scream. “Why? Just why should it be Valen? Why is he


    being made to go through so much pain? Why?!!”


    Jeslyn cried so much that in no time, she started to hup. Why is everyone she loves leaving her?


    She had just gottenfortable with Valen only for this to be happening. “Do the gods hate me this


    much?”


    Maverick brushed his fingers through his thick hair. “Valen will be fine.”


    “H- how?” She sniffed with tears running down her cheeks.


    He turned his head in her direction and said: “The research is almostplete.”


    “Re- really?”


    Maverick nodded. “He’ll think I made you cry”


    “Who?”


    “Your son,” he replied before facing the road. T


    Jeslyn wanted tough but she couldn’t find herselfughing in this situation. She wiped her face with


    the back of her hands and sniffed. “Do I- do I look good now?”


    “Messy”