A Replacement Bride

Chapter 68

Aberama made himself completely at home as soon as he came in. "Say, Kathy, that guy in the elevator looks pretty familiar." He couldn't help frowning as he sat on the couch with a cushion in his arms, recollecting Joaquin's face. Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

Katherine quirked her brow lightly and gave him a gentle reminder, saying, "Mm, he's Joaquin of the Levisay Family."

Aberama nearly died from choking on his own saliva. "Who?!"

"You heard it right. It's the Joaquin Levisay you know." Katherine nodded in affirmation as though she had read Aberama's mind.

The corner of his lips twitched as his countenance changed multifold. "You're telling me that you and Joaquin Levisay are neighbors, and you are also his fiancée? Tsk, that's a hell of a fate."

"Huh," Katherine sneered and yawned. With that, she went further into the apartment to come out with a wooden box, chucking it toward Aberama. "Here's your thing. Now leave."

As she had some liquor the night before, she was now experiencing a splitting headache, constantly feeling like she hadn't had a proper rest, and her head only felt worse when she saw Aberama.

"Careful with this." Aberama rolled his eyes at her with feigned anger as he opened the wooden box. "This is worth over billions, which can buy a proper house in Kyoland."

However, Katherine didn't think much of it. She narrowed her eyes, feeling somewhat sleepy. "Better not give this medicine to someone with an underlying medical condition."

"Huh?" Aberama's hand holding the medicine froze for a second. "You didn't say anything about that before."

"Huh, I gave it for you to consume yourself, but who'd have thought all you saw in that thing was money and sold it off?!" Katherine rolled her eyes at him and pondered for a moment before explaining, "This medicine is like a potion in the video games you play. However, it's not as miraculous as that. This medicine can only strengthen your body and improve your health. I advise giving this to someone in the pink. It'd be dangerous if an elderly takes it."

"Right, okay, I got it. I'll keep that in mind." Aberama nodded soberly, keeping the box away carefully. "By the way, the thing I told you about the other day—"

"I'm not treating them. These guys are a whole lot of trouble. Tell them to go to a hospital themselves." Katherine rejected him without even thinking.

Those dignitaries had sensitive statuses, and she didn't want to have much to do with them. She wanted to continue stalling until she got a result with the experimental medicine from Theodore's side.

Not only that, some at Fontan probably found out she had returned and might be looking for hires to assassinate her.

Just thinking about it already gave her a headache.

"Are you not going to scram?" Katherine was running out of patience when she saw Aberama snuggled up in his spot, having no intention of leaving.

"Wow, Kathy, hurtful much." The corner of his lips twitched. "Is this how you're supposed to treat me when I've slain a goody-goody b*tch for you just now? Forget that you won't even offer me refreshments, but you even want to kick me out right away."

To that, Katherine sneered impassively, and said, "Leave."

"Sigh, heartless. You heartbreaker… I don't want to go back just yet. My family's looking for me. No doubt they want to fish out information about you from me. I'm sure you know my grandma isn't doing good; her candle might actually be out soon. She wants to get a hold of you immediately and see if you can prolong her life," said Aberama indifferently as he sank into the couch.

At that, Katherine took a gander at him. "Do you not want to save her?"

"Huh, what for? Give her a few more years in life to torture me?" Aberama sneered as his gaze turned cold.

Katherine wasn't familiar with the situation between the Ramons, so she didn't continue the topic but only yawned and returned to her room with a cushion in her arms. "Make your way to the guest room if you don't want to leave. I'm going to take a nap."

Seeing so, Aberama hurriedly chased after Katherine with brightly lit eyes; his tiredness from earlier completely disappeared. "How do you concoct these medicine? Do you use a cauldron for these? Katherine, are you Apollo reincarnated?"

Katherine stopped in her tracks as her hand froze on the doorknob while the corner of her lips twitched.

It wasn't until after a long while that she turned around and looked at Aberama. "Spend less of your time on those brainless video games. You aren't bright in the first place."

With that, she shook her head and went into her room.

Aberama suddenly felt exceptionally at ease as he looked at the shut door and smelled the faint medicinal scent on the cushion in his arms.

Katherine just had this charm to her. As long as she was next to a person, even if she did nothing, one could feel at ease.

Aberama didn't leave but went straight into the guest room, taking a nice, long afternoon nap.

By the time Katherine woke up from her nap, she found a few missed calls on her phone.

Most of it was from Jorge, with a few unknown numbers in the mix, as well as a few texts.

She looked briefly at them and found that the texts were from Rosemary. The girl probably called her with a different number when she realized Katherine had blocked her phone number.

At that, Katherine clicked her tongue and blocked this number again before feeling that the world had fallen back into silence once more.

After a yawn, she finally called Jorge.

"Dad, were you looking for me?" Her voice was hoarse yet gentle, and it was laced with a hint of drowsiness from having just woken up, sounding inexplicably sexy.

Though originally livid, Jorge suddenly felt at ease upon hearing Katherine's voice. "Kathy, are you okay? You said you were coming to visit me at the hospital, but I've been waiting for you all day."

"Hmm, I'm with Joaquin right now. I'll go over a little later." Katherine pulled Joaquin out as a buffer without a second thought.

Since the car crash, Joaquin barely ever showed himself in public, so it was impossible for Jorge to know the truth.

Sure enough, the elder suspected nothing after hearing her words. "Is that so? You have to get along with him, alright? I actually called to ask if you're able to take a look at the budget for the sea bridge

project the Levisays are doing. We're also planning on investing in this project. If we can bag it for ourselves, then our crisis would be over."

Jorge's tone toward Katherine was one laced with sycophant, having no sign of his past peremptory tone.

"I don't know much about that, but isn't Robert in charge of Levisay now? Why don't you have Rosemary ask him, Dad?" Katherine asked with a feigned quandary.

"Don't talk to me about that wench!" Jorge hit the roof at the mention of the young woman. "I must've sinned badly in my past life to have a daughter like her!"

Katherine smiled upon hearing Jorge's exasperation as her mood brightened considerably, but she still soothed him gently. "Dad, Rosemary is still young. She might just be going through a phase. Don't get agitated; take your time to lecture her. Madam Sutton's not home now either. Who's going to take care of you if you fall ill from anger?"

Jorge's anger was successfully alleviated, feeling even more regretful for treating Katherine the way he did back then. "Kathy, I'm sorry for treating you—"

"It's all in the past now, isn't it, Dad? We're family." Katherine cut her father off.

Jorge felt utterly remorseful, and he asked about Katherine's well-being a little more before ending the call.

Katherine lowered her head and stared at her phone while her father's words rang in her ears.

That man had clearly called to have her fish out information from Joaquin. Jorge was still as hell-bent as ever on obtaining his benefits.

If he could abandon Elise and force her to her death without a second of hesitation back then, then he could do the same thing to Lisa and Rosemary now too.