Braelynn was too worried to notice that something was wrong with Richard as she helped him out of the hotel and called a cab to go to the nearest clinic available.
In the car, Richard leaned on Braelynn with an extremely uncomfortable look, trying his best to put on the perfect act.
Braelynn thought that he was a patient, so she didn’t care about it because he was sick.
Richard was overjoyed the entire car ride until reality dawned on him when he arrived at the clinic.
He was in a foreign country, so he couldn’t make up an act with his connections to fool Braelynn.
Was he about to be exposed right now?
If he did get exposed, Braelynn would beat him into a pulp.
Richard was extremely anxious as Braelynn helped him into the clinic. When the nurses in the clinic saw them, they immediately went to their aid and asked about the situation.
A young doctor was in charge of Richard’s case, and Braelynn used Latin to explain Richard’s condition in full detail, while Richard was at a loss for what to do.
He had hoped that she didn’t understand Latin so that he could still fool her. However, she was extremely fluent in the language, so his tricks were of no use at all.
The doctor used a thermometer to measure Richard’s body temperature and asked him how he felt now. Richard stuttered as he said that he had a headache along with an uncomfortable feeling.
The doctor examined the thermometer and saw that the results were normal, so he was confused on why Richard felt sick even though he didn’t have a fever. Therefore, he called a better-experienced doctor to help him.
Richard felt that he was going crazy. He had to send Braelynn away, so he weakly called out to her, “I am very thirsty. Can you help me buy a bottle of water?”
As she was about to agree, the doctor said considerately, “I have hot water in my office. If you are ill, you’d better not drink cold water. Let me pour the hot water for you.”
Richard rolled his eyes as he watched the doctor pour him a glass of water. He drank half a glass of water while the senior doctor in the clinic came over and asked about the situation. Richard had no fever and no other symptoms but he just felt uncomfortable.
The senior doctor also found it strange, “This is very strange. Let’s take a blood test.”
A tube of Richard’s blood was taken for analysis. An hour later, the doctor came back with a report, “The test results are normal.”
“Normal?” Braelynn tilted her head and glanced at Richard.
Richard felt his heart grow cold and immediately pretended to cough a few times, “My throat is a little uncomfortable.”
The doctor checked his throat with a flashlight, “I don’t find anything wrong with your throat though? This is too strange.”
Richard could only lie, “I’ve been like this since I was young, and the doctors could never find out what’s actually wrong with me. I’ll get better after a few days of rest.”
Without finding out the cause, the doctors couldn’t prescribe him any medicine, so they could only let them go home and come back if there were new symptoms.
Braelynn and Richard left the clinic. When they walked outside, Richard wanted to lean against Braelynn, but she pushed him away without mercy.
“Mr. Clark, tell me the truth. Are you really sick or are you just pretending?”
The way she addressed him so formally made his heartache, “Miss Saunders, why do you think so?”
“Anyway, I think it’s strange. You don’t have a fever and there were no abnormalities from your blood test results. Mr. Clark, I think your sickness is very strange.”
“Miss Saunders, are you suspecting me of pretending to be ill? How can you say that to me?” Richard said miserably, “I know you hate me, but if you suspect me like that, it really hurts my self-esteem. Thanks for taking care of me just now, and I don’t want to trouble you anymore, so I’ll ask my bodyguards to fetch me. Goodbye!”
Richard stubbornly gave his bodyguards a call and left.
Braelynn didn’t follow him, and she continued to think about what had just happened. Richard was not an ordinary person, so why would his bodyguard leave him when he was sick like that?
They had been in the clinic for so long, but his bodyguard did not call to check up on him once.
His bodyguard’s behavior was suspicious since he should inform William, Michael, and Abbie if Richard was actually sick. However, none of them called to check up on him, so it was a very fishy situation.
She was sure that his illness was an act!
As she thought about his act in the car, she was furious, and she waved her hand to call a cab to leave.
Seeing her leaving angrily, Richard whined secretly and sent a message to William, “I pretended to be sick and failed again. Braelynn is suspecting me, and she is very angry. What should I do now?”
William shook his head and said, “Why are you so bad at this? What should I do about you?”
Richard was very annoyed, “Now is not the time for that. What do you think I should do next?”
William thought for a moment and said, “Then let’s make it a reality that you’re sick.”
“What? You want me to actually fall sick? Are you human? William, you’re too mean!” Richard was against his idea.
“Or else? Are you able to outsmart Braelynn?”
Thinking of Braelynn’s intelligence, Richard had a headache and he complained, “I’m so unlucky! Why was it so easy for you to fool Valeria but so hard for me?”
“What are you talking about? I have never lied to my wife. From the beginning to the end, I have been sincere to her, and I’ve never deceived her with acts like yours. Since you’re trying to use dirty tricks, you should think of the consequences too!”
“Okay, stop nagging. I’m going to get sick right now! I’m so angry!”
Richard got irritated and called a taxi to the hotel. Since his act was exposed, he had to make it a reality. When he went back to his hotel room, he filled the bathtub with cold water and laid inside.
He felt that the water temperature was not low enough, so he ordered his bodyguard to get some ice for him. After soaking in the ice-cold water for two hours, he felt dizzy, started sneezing, and had a fever. He successfully made himself sick, so the bodyguard sent him to the hospital.
When Braelynn returned to the hotel room and thought of Richard’s behavior, she became angrier. Did he fool her?
D*mn, Richard! How dare he fool her! She would definitely deal with him later!
She picked up her phone angrily to send him a message: ” Richard! How dare you! Putting on an act to fool me? Do you take me as a fool? Explain yourself to me about what happened today!”
She waited for his reply, but there was no response after a long time.
Was he going to play dead and muddle through it after being exposed? The CEO of a big company was so irresponsible?
Today, she would not be considerate of him. Since he wasn’t replying, she would go to him in person.
As she thought about it, she left to find him. When she was in the corridor, Abbie came out from the room next to hers with a worried look on her face, “My brother was sent to the hospital? What happened?”