A Vengeful Ex-Wife

Chapter 419 What's Wrong With Him

James stared with his eyebrows raised at the woman eating the bullfrogs with relish. Maria didn't strike him as someone who would have a taste for such dishes.

The dishes in this establishment were generally delicate and served in small portions. All too soon, James finished his bean sprouts.

Maria beckoned to a waiter and ordered, "Double Happiness for Mr. Xi."

"Yes, ma'am. Please wait for a while!"

After the waiter left, Maria excitedly described the dish to James. "It's the most expensive item on their menu! I think it suits you very well. It has deer cartilage, deer tendon, chanterelles... Forget it, you can try it out for yourself once it is served."

James cast a suspicious glance at Maria, whose expression said that she was up to no good, and thought that the chanterelle was the only normalsounding ingredient in the dish. Both deer parts sounded rather nutritious, if a bit suspicious.

An image of Maria's crying face came to mind, making James think that the woman was deliberately courting trouble.

In that case, he would not let her down.

The dish was served late, so Maria had already finished eating by the time it was delivered to their table.

For some reason, the sight of James calmly eating the exotic dish in front of her made Maria feel uneasy.

'How could he eat it so happily? Didn't he know the medicinal effect of those ingredients?'

After leaving the restaurant, the two of them went back to their respective companies.

In HL Group

When James got off the elevator, he felt a gush of warm liquid flow out of his nose. Curiously, he prodded the wet skin above his lip with his fingers.

"Mr. Xi! Your nose is bleeding!" Gary exclaimed as he rushed over to his side. Having been the first to see it happen, he barked toward another assistant, "Get Mr. Xi some tissues!"

James stared at the blood on his fingertips in bemusement. It was all Maria's fault.

The assistant handed the tissues to James and asked in a concerned voice, "Mr. Xi, do you need me to send you to the hospital?"

James calmly dabbed at the nosebleed and waved him away. "No need. I'm going to clean it myself."

Then, he strode into the office without another word.

Summer was out of the office. She found out about the nosebleed when she came back at noon.

She immediately sent a message to Maria. "Maria, is Mr. Xi feeling sick? He..." Before she could send her message, several distinguished guests arrived at the company. Hastily, she keyed in a few words and sent the message to Maria without checking it. Then, she rose to her feet to greet the newcomers.

Maria read the message. "Maria, is Mr. Xi feeling sick?

He's covered in blood all over!" 'Blood all over?' Maria was horrified at the thought. Was it because of the dish?

She called Summer. The phone rang, but nobody picked up the call.

She called James, but no one answered, either.

The more Maria thought about it, the more uneasy she became. She meant no harm, but what if the dish caused him harm?

Fidgeting in her office would accomplish nothing, so she decided that it would be better if she went to James' company to have a look. After all, she was the one to blame for it.

Thus, Maria abandoned her work for the day and hurried out of the company.

In no time, she arrived at the HL Group building.

When Maria reached the floor where the CEO's office was located, only two assistants were there. Both Summer and Gary were nowhere to be found.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Xi!" the secretaries greeted her, rising to their feet.

Maria was not in the mood to correct them. Her high heels clicking on the floor as she strode toward them, she asked anxiously, "Where is James? How is he doing?"

The secretaries looked at each other in puzzlement. "Mr. Xi went to the hospital just now..." said one of them.

"Hospital? Which hospital?" Maria was so worried that she interrupted the secretary before she could finish.

The woman racked her brains and eventually shrugged. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Xi, I don't know." After all, Summer was the one responsible for dealing with that particular client.

"Do what you can to find it out for me. I called his phone just now, but no one answered." There was an edge of panic in Maria's voice.

"Okay, Mrs. Xi. Please wait a moment."

The secretary called Summer and James in turns, but neither of them picked up. Finally, she was able to get through to Gary and find out where James went.

"Mrs. Xi, Mr. Xi and Summer are in the group's medical center."

HL Group's medical center? Maria knew where it was. She thanked the secretary for the information and hurriedly left the company to go to the medical center.

When Maria arrived at the hospital, she spent a moment just sitting in her car.

She was wondering how to find James when she saw a familiar figure, so she got out of the car and ran toward him. "Gary!"

Hearing her voice, Gary turned around and approached her. "Mrs. Xi."

"Where is James?" she asked, distress evident in her voice.

"He's in the inpatient department on the seventh floor, " Gary answered truthfully.

"Take me there!" "Okay." Gary noticed her anxiety and figured out that she had something urgent to discuss with James, so he didn't think too much.

After entering the elevator, Maria tried to calm the uneasiness in her heart and asked, "How is he? Is he getting better?"

He? After a few moments of confusion, Gary understood that Maria was probably asking about the patient that James came to visit. With a gloomy face, he said, "He's not in a good condition. He only

has a few days left." All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

Maria's widened in shock, and her strength almost failed her. Her knees trembling, she held onto the elevator bar to hold herself up and murmured, "How could it be? He was fine... What's wrong with him?"

She couldn't understand it. James was an extremely healthy man. Didn't he exert himself so thoroughly with her last night? Why did this happen so suddenly after a meal?

Unbeknownst to her, she and Gary were referring to two different people. Gary answered seriously, "I don't know the details. Do you need me to ask Mr. Xi for you?"

"No, I...I'll go and see for myself." The elevator dinged as it reached the seventh floor. Maria took a deep breath before stepping out.

In the ward, Summer looked at the multiple missed calls on her phone and whispered to James, "Mr. Xi, Mrs. Xi called me several times. I think that she's been trying to reach you. I'm going to call her back."

"Okay."

The patient in the ward was in a coma. Both of them had muted their phones before coming in, so they hadn't answered any of Maria's calls.

Summer ran into Maria, who came rushing in. She

blurted out in surprise, "Maria?"

"How is he, Summer?" Maria grabbed Summer's hand in a panic. Before Summer respond, she continued, "Is he in this ward?"

"Mr. Xi?"

"Yes."

"Oh, Mr. Xi is inside."

Maria pushed past her into the ward.

There were three people in the ward. One was lying on the bed, and the other two were standing by the bedside. One of the people standing had his back to the door, while the other was facing it.

In her agitation, Maria threw herself forward to stand beside the sickbed before she could see the patient clearly. The patient wore an oxygen mask that covered half of his face. She grabbed the arm of the man on the bed and cried out, "James! James, are you okay?"

Her eyesight had become blurry, and it was even more difficult to see the man lying on the sickbed through her tears.

"James, why are you dying all of a sudden?"

"Maria, what do you mean?"

Her next words got stuck in her throat when she heard someone speak up from behind her.

Maria looked back in astonishment to see a tall, familiar man standing there. She blinked her eyes, her tears streaming down her face. Soon, she could see the man's face clearly. "James?"

James' expression was dark. "It's me."

Maria's mind went blank for some time, and then she blurted out, "Aren't you supposed to be dying?"