My Mute Wife

[No.]

Lexie shook her head desperately.

“Did you not join forces with Peter, or did you not drug me?”

Alan snorted, “Almost forgot, you haven’t had a chance to drug yourself yet, have you?”

Lexie leaned against the bed, her eyes full of powerlessness, unable to do anything but shake her head in denial.

[I really don’t know what’s going on with that bottle of medicine, it’s not the one I was given before.]

Alan was impatient, “There’s no need to deny it, it doesn’t matter anymore.”

“Are you forgetting that the deal between us?”

Lexie was stunned.

[I’ve been to the winery, as you said.]

“Yes, but what was the result? You didn’t get the prescription, did you?”

At the mention of the prescription, Lexie fiercely pinched herself under the quilt and tried to calm herself down.

[Is it that if I give you the prescription, you’ll let me go?]

Alan’s icy gaze rested on her face, “You know the prescription?”

Lexie explained, [Peter took me to the winery and showed me the prescription.]

“Why did he suddenly take you to the winery?”

[In exchange, I promised to help him with his work at the Howard family.]

Alan’s brows knitted as he sized her up, judging the truth of her words.

He dropped notebook onto the sheets, and his thin, cold lips uttered out, “Write it down!”

Lexie held a pen, her fingers pale and slender as she recalled the contents of the prescription she had seen in the study that day and wrote it down in the notebook, stroke by stroke.

[Angelica …]

After writing the first herb, Lexie’s fingers paused for a moment, glanced at Alan through the corner of her eyes who had been staring at the side, her heart trembled, and she gritted her teeth and wrote down two words after it – [150 grams].

“Finished?” Alan took the book she handed over in disbelief.

Lexie nodded cautiously.

The prescription was all about herbs and the dosage, which was not within Alan’s expertise.

“If this is true, what happened before will go away and be forgiven, but if you dare to lie to me,” Alan swept her a cold glance and dropped a sentence while putting the prescription away, “Be prepared for a permanent stay at the hospital.”

Lexie winced and subconsciously clutched the sheet.

Alan took the medicine and left in a hurry, he needed to go verify the authenticity of the prescription as soon as possible.

It wasn’t until the sound of the door closing was sounded that Lexie’s grip on her palm gradually loosened and she gasped violently.

She could stay in J City anymore.

She didn’t dare to imagine what would happen to her if Alan found out that the dosage of the prescription was incorrect.

Coming out of the hospital, the car drove to Howard Group.

In the carriage.

“Mr. Alan, go straight to the office or …”

“Go to the research institute.”

Alan held the prescription written by Lexie and pondered.

Half a minute later, he instructed, “Have someone check if Lexie has still been to the Mitchell family’s winery after Peter’s birthday banquet.”

Jack froze for a moment, “Okay.”

The car soon drove to Howard Group’s pharmaceutical research institute in the west of the city.

The idea of acquiring Mitchell Pharmaceutical Group was not a recent one, but Alan had been planning for a long time before that, but Howard Group had not been involved in the pharmaceutical industry before, so many things had to be built from starting.

This pharmaceutical institute was an important starting point.

“Mr. Alan, why are you free to come today?” A middle-aged man in a white lab coat came out of the lab and greeted towards Alan.

Alan handed him the prescription, “I would like to ask Professor Chaw to take a look at this prescription.”

“Prescription?” Professor Chaw pushed his glasses and looked at the paper for a while, his expression very serious, “Isn’t this the prescription of Mitchell Pharmaceutical Group’s ‘Nerves Soothing Pill’?”

“‘Nerves Soothing Pill’?” Alan suddenly recalled the names of the medicines he had seen in the list of that batch of default orders that day, and the Howard family’s ancestral ‘Nerves Soothing Pill’ was listed.

Alan asked, “Can you make it according to this?”

“Of course, there is nothing unusual about the prescription, the recipe is written on the box, the key is this dose. Each family has their own dose, these cannot be published, otherwise it would be copied.”

Professor Chaw revealed a puzzled look, “Mr. Alan, how did you get this prescription? According to reason, it’s a trade secret of Mitchell Pharmaceutical Group.”

Alan didn’t mean to answer, but looked at the lab behind Professor Chaw, “I heard that the lab has recruited new people into it?”

“Yes, it is John, my student, recruited in for an internship, professional things still need to be done by professionals. By the way, the test report of that medicine that Jack brought over yesterday was John who produced.”

“I read that medicine too, I was about to ask you, that medicine can’t save or harm people, what is Mitchell Group producing that kind of medicine for?”

Hearing this, Alan’s eyebrows knitted slightly, “What do you mean it can’t save or harm people?”

“That medicine tastes bitter and has a pungent smell, it is a chronic medicine that works only when taken for a long time, what fool do you think would take such a medicine for a long time?”

“What if it’s mixed in with the food?”

“Impossible,” Professor Chaw shook his head, “That drug is easily found out in anything you put inside, the taste is too strange to fool anyone.”

At those words, Alan’s eyebrows knitted.

In the following afternoon.

Lexie slept drowsily in the hospital for a whole day, not even having lunch, and woke up near evening, awakened by the vibration of her mobile phone.

“Hello? Lexie, is that you?” Myles’ anxious voice came from the other end.

Lexie tapped twice on the back of the phone to indicate it was her.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

Myles felt relieved, through the phone, he took a breath and complained, “I sent you so many messages, but you did not reply one of them. I hang up, and send message to you.”

There were several unread texts and missing calls on the phone, all from Myles.

“I’ll pass by the library later and bring you something to eat.”

“You didn’t come to work?”

“Why aren’t you replying to messages?”

“You colleagues said you asked for a sick leave, what happened to you?”

Lexie glanced at the time, the first message was sent in the morning, while the last message was twenty minutes ago, she did not reply for a day, it was no wonder Myles was worried.

“I’m fine, I’m just not feeling well and I’m going to be hospitalized for a few days.”

“Hospitalized? That serious? Which hospital?”

“Not serious, it’s just that the doctor said I need to stay in the hospital to recuperate, so don’t worry and you don’t have to come.”

After a while, Myles sent a message, “Tell me the truth, is it Alan who did something to you?”

Lexie’s hand holding the phone trembled slightly, even when she saw the words ‘Alan’ on the screen, she was still physically scared, the fear that man gave her had seeped down to her bones.

She replied after a while, “No.”

“Which hospital are you in?”

Myles persevered and pursued with a firm attitude, “I’m going over to you now.”