A Vengeful Ex-Wife

Chapter 249 Her Fever

"Yes." James didn't intend to hide anything.

"It seems that I have a fever right now. I don't have any medicine in my apartment. So please come over and take me to the hospital. If you can't make it, I'll call Norman instead," Maria said lightly.

James knew she did it on purpose. "I'll ask Ethan to take you to the hospital."

"No way. I have something to share with you. Come on, please? Take me to the hospital yourself. I really don't feel well." She acted like a spoiled child.

He fell into silence once again. Finally, he hung up the phone.

He turned around and went straight back to the car. Then he knocked on the window of the passenger seat. Ethan lowered the window and asked, "James, what's wrong?"

"Send her back home. I have something important to deal with right now."

"Me?" Ethan pointed at himself. He really didn't want to send Alina back home. He'd rather spend time with Sunny, the stray dog.

"Yeah." James took a step back away from the car, and then told the driver, "Send them back."

"Okay, Mr. Xi."

Alina's heart sank. She rolled down the window and asked, "James, where are you going?"

"I have to take care of something." He signaled to the driver as soon as he finished. The car roared away without further ado.

Inside the car, Ethan looked back at the woman in the back seat. She a long face. "You know that James isn't interested in you at all. Are you sure it's worth it to pester a man who doesn't love you at

all?"

"Why not?" Alina replied.

Ethan painted a sarcastic smile on his face. "Nothing forcibly done is going to end up well, Ms. Tang. You can just find someone who loves you. Why does it have to be James?"

"Did Maria ask you to say that?”

"No. She is a proud woman. I reckon she probably wouldn't waste time on a hypocritical woman like you anyway.

I'm just speaking my mind from a spectator's perspective, that's all."

At the Golden Mansion

Maria, who was still in her pajamas, opened the door as soon as James rang the doorbell. She threw herself into his arms. "You're finally here. I miss you so much."

"Maria Song, you said you wanted us to be strangers, yet you're here telling me that you miss me. That is kind of ironic, don't you think?”

She shook her head while still grasping his arm. "You should know by now that when I hate you, I always think of breaking up with you. But after you helped me, I admit that I was touched by your gesture, and I began to miss you again. It's not ironic at all."

No words came out of his mouth. 'She is so bold!'

He carried her in his arms. "Go get changed. I'll take you to the hospital."

Maria wrapped her arms around his neck and answered,

"We don't need to go to the hospital. Just ask someone to send me some antipyretics." "No. You have to go to the hospital." He was persistent. He entered the walk-in closet, grabbed a black overcoat, and wrapped it around her. Then he walked out with her in his arms.

They were about to pass by the bedroom when Maria told him to stop. "Wait a minute. I forgot to bring my phone."

James glanced at her bedside, and spotted a phone on the nightstand.

Maria quickly got out of his arms and threw herself on the bed. "To be honest with you, I don't really need to go to the hospital." She had only a mild fever and there was no need to go to the hospital. She knew that James would pick up Alina from the hospital today, so she tried cooking up a plan in order to prevent him from doing that.

He stared at her with an intimidating gaze, and asked, "Didn't you call and say that you needed to go to the hospital? What changed? I'm send you there now."

There was nothing wrong, of course.

She nestled in his arms as he forced her to get into the car. She turned her phone on and played a recording.

It was none other than Alina's voice. James could clearly recognize it.

"Oh, Maria. What's wrong with you this time?" Of course, it wasn't a question with genuine concern for Maria's well-being. In fact, she was mocking her.

After a brief silence, Alina continued, "Does it hurt? I'm glad to see you suffer. You deserve it. Every time I see you with James, I feel the same pain.

You deserve it, Maria Song. I'm glad to see you being tortured by the poison.

Please, hurry and go to hell already. After you die, James will be all mine. You're divorced. Why did you still come back to bother him?

It's a great pity that I didn't personally get to see you suffering from the poison I gave you years ago. But today, I'll make sure to see you suffer as the poison tortures you to death.

To tell you the truth, it was James himself who asked me to come here. We came here together. He is downstairs right now. He asked me to come up to check on you. You are in this condition now. Do you know what I can see from your face right now? I can only see a face of a beggar. A poor, measly, beggar. Ha-ha!"

The recording ended.

After that, Maria had tricked the vile woman to her bedside. "Come here. I have something to tell you."

Without a doubt, Alina had walked over and looked at her with pride. Maria had grabbed her hand and pulled her over with all her strength. Maria had bitten her arm with all the force she could muster in her jaws.

The nurses had heard the noises from inside the room and rushed over to break up the fight between the two.

Alina's arm had been covered with blood.

The blood on Maria's lips that James had seen had been Alina's blood.

Maria turned off the phone and examined his reaction. "Did you hear all of that? This is your fiancee, Alina Tang. This is the woman you are about to marry. When I was in the hospital, she came over to mock me deliberately. James Xi, the woman you chose is nothing but a mediocre, vile woman. Do you still want to marry her?"

He could do and say nothing but gnash his teeth in anger.

She wondered why he didn't answer at all. She started to get infuriated.

About ten minutes later, he entered the outpatient department of the hospital with Maria in his arms.

The doctor took her temperature. Then he looked at them and said, "37.1 degrees centigrade. If you came a little later, her fever would've already gone."

James didn't respond. Her lie was exposed, wasn't it?

Maria kept her silence. She had already told him not to come to the hospital, but he insisted.

She gazed over at the doctor and gave him a slight, discreet glare.

The doctor smiled. "You are both adults, so stop messing around. Don't you have common sense? Just go back for now and drink more water. Also, make sure you have plenty of rest."

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So did James.

He carried her out all the way to the car the same way he carried her to the hospital.

The doctor didn't even bother prescribing any medicine. After all, a temperature of 37.1 degrees centigrade wasn't even considered a fever at all.

"Do you feel ashamed?" he asked.

She settled herself to the comfort of his arms and casually replied, "No."

He left shortly after sending her back to her apartment.

In the evening, Maria received a call from Lawrence. He stated, "I'm in the Leopard Club right now. Do you think you can make it here tonight?"

"Like right now?" It was getting pretty late and the only sound she could hear outside was the howling of the wind.

"Yes."

She stood up and got dressed. She put on her makeup and walked out of the place with her high heels.

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