2023-12-28 01:50:07Everyone gasped and remained frozen as his heart became even more faint. His face was becoming blue and the heart monitor was leveling off and quickly straightening out completely.
Jeremy could see the fear in Ella's eyes. He knew that if he let the lord of the Woodson family die, Ella would be in big trouble.
He moved the doctor aside and went to the lord's bedside.
"He's just taken his medicine, you must not disturb him! Move aside, you quack!" The doctor snapped.
No one could support him anymore because they saw that the lord was not improving but dying.
Checking his pulse, Jeremy knew that the lord had very little time left, his pulse was weaker than he thought and his heart was almost ceasing.
"The lord has been poisoned." He told the family.
"What? Are you certain? How?" Clifford asked, even though he too was stunned into silence with how much the lord's health had worsened after the shot the doctor gave to him.
"Don't panic," Jeremy told everyone as he dug into his pocket and retrieved a powder. It was a magical medicine that he'd formulated a long time ago, it was very potent and it was worth over half a million dollars per gram in the black market. It was a cure for any type of poison and only Jeremy knew the recipe.
"What are you trying to give to him, boy? Who even brought you here? You are going to kill him, the shot I've given to him is going to work soon, you can't be so impatient." The doctor said,
Jeremy sneered at him, "He will not get better, he has been poisoned and it's killing him."
"You know nothing! I have just given him a very good cure for his illness, he will recover shortly, stay out of this." The doctor shouted at him.
"You're a quack, you know nothing," the doctor said and then turned to the family, "You must not let him give the lord that, he will only worsen his situation."
The family looked reluctant, they didn't know what to believe and who to trust. While they had hired the doctor themselves, they could tell that the lord was indeed dying.
Clifford and the older woman finally decided that the doctor was older and more experienced and he'd come highly recommended so they could trust him over Jeremy.
"If you want to stop me from helping him then get ready to watch him die." He said confidently, his face was stern and his voice cold.
The family could not stand the thought of their lord dying. They marveled at the confidence and could not stop him anymore, with the lord's state, they were willing to try anything just so he could survive.
Jeremy moved in and fed the lord the powder. The doctor was even angrier when he did. "I will not be held responsible for anything that happens to the lord after he takes that powder, this man has no idea what he's doing, the lord's case is already handled, he wasn't to be given anything else." He argued.
But it was too late. Jeremy moved away from the lord as his face turned red. The doctor smirked, he thought that Jeremy had worsened it and now the lord would even die more quickly.
"See, I told you he's a quack, how he's killed the lord." The doctor said,
But just as he spoke, a member of the family gasped as she saw that the lord was recovering. The woman rose from her seat and rushed to his side.
Another pointed at the heart monitor that was beginning the beep loudly again and the line came back to life.
"Oh my god! His heart is beating again!" She yelled excitedly.
Jeremy said nothing, Ella was elated beside him, hopeful that she wouldn't be in trouble with the Woodson family anymore.
The doctor stood there, a little lost at what was going on, he could not believe that a little of the powder he'd been fed could heal him so quickly. He moved to the heart monitor and looked, trying to be sure that it wasn't malfunctioning.
The final confirmation that everyone needed finally happened. The lord blinked open his eyes and the entire room was silent.
Everyone was shocked, the lord had been unconscious for a very long time, he'd been fed through his tubes and living with support for several weeks, seeing his eyes open again was indeed a miracle and everyone was happy.
The doctor, trying to be smart, schooled his expression and tried to take the credit for himself, "That's what I was talking about all this while, I told you to step aside and that the medicine was doing the job, can you see? He's fine now." He said.
The entire family turned to gaze at the lord who was fully recovered, his face wasn't pale anymore and his breathing had normalized, he was indeed fine.
"Really? I don't think so," the same woman beside the lord said. "The young man was right, you were
The doctor frowned and insisted that it was the injection, "I know the shot that I just gave to him, it is a very powerful syrup and I knew it would heal him completely. You didn't have to allow this quack to add anything, he could have harmed him." He said still, trying to save face.
Clifford scoffed, he was well, everyone else in the room could tell that the doctor was lying, it was not his injection that had saved the lord's life, it was Jeremy's powder. He was very angry.
Clifford was the first son of the lord and he was upset that the doctor had compromised his father's life by giving him the deadly injection. He rose from his chair and pointed at the doctor angrily, "We will teach you a lesson for putting the lord's life in danger, no one messes with our family." He sneered.
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Chapter hundred forty eight
The room was as brooding and intimidating as the men who sat in it. It was so large that the walls could almost not be seen from the entrance. The cold air blasted from the air conditioning unit and there was no single furniture in the room except the mahogany table and six chairs that surrounded it. It was Jeremy's first time appearing before the council and he was dressed for the occasion. His white suit was immaculate and he'd had his show made the previous day. He was dressed like the heir he was as he stepped into the room. Sinclair smiled at him from across the room where he sat with the rest of the council but the smile was so slight that someone else couldn't have noticed it.Jeremy wasn't the only one standing before the council. Gilbert was likewise dressed in a white suit - making Jeremy regret picking the color - and his mother, Hilda was dressed in a tight purple dress that hugged her bodice like a second skin and extended to the floor like a wide wave, covering most of
Chapter hundred forty seven
Jeremy was shaking on the spot as he stared at the face of lord Kingston. He'd seen the man only a few times in real life as a child. When his father had taken him to meet with him once and a while. His memories were a little shaky but he knew that the lord was a handsome man who was aging finely. But even if he had never seen the lord before, he would still be able to recognize him. Right there on the makeshift hospital bed was lord Kingston with tubes sticking out of him in all the wrong places. His face was peacefully calm and his nod remained still on the bed. After the first shock wore off, Jeremy became alert again and quickly rushed to check his vitals. Even without grabbing his wrist, he could tell that the lord was still alive because the heart monitor on the wall was still ticking strongly. Jeremy however still checked his pulse and heartbeat manually, just in case the monitor was faulty. He looked around the room and could see different cabinets and drawers, they were al
Chapter hundred forty six
The next day, Jeremy arrived at a tool shop very early in the morning, he was dressed in a form-fitting spandex and a pair of sunglasses, his feet tucked into a sturdy boot and his fingers gloved. "I'll have a chisel, a hammer, and a six-meter rope," he said to the girl at the counter who looked at him skeptically. "Are you working on something?" She asked and swallowed nervously. "You could say that," he replied and he could see the girl's eyes widen. "Don't worry, I'm not a psychopath," he said and she sighed but then he added, "I think," as he swiped his card, paid for everything he'd just bought, and backed it into his trunk. He was driving a nude-colored truck with tires larger than the regular, his backseat was filled with everything he needed to take down a door and even a wall if he needed to.Jeremy had spent the past night trying to make sense of what he had just seen the previous evening. It shouldn't have been anything worthy of note that Eugene went to the drug store a
Chapter hundred forty five
The sound of the rain falling on the roof of his car sort of calmed him. Jeremy sighed as he cuddled a hot styrofoam cup of coffee on his lap and listened to the weather report on the radio. It was morning and the weather had surprised him as it did everyone else in the city. The day had started pretty sunny and then the clouds were out and soon, it was raining cats and dogs. "Climate change," Jeremy muttered as he listened to the reporter go on and on about the unpredictable state of the weather for the past few days. But if Jeremy was to be entirely honest, he'd seen a few clouds gathering the previous evening and it was a little chill too. Turning down the volume of the radio, he pulled on his raincoat from the backseat over himself and grabbed a towel from the glove compartment. He didn't have an umbrella on him because he wasn't exactly expecting the downpour. Opening the door, Jeremy raced to the porch of the restaurant and huddled with the crowd there. His eyes scanned throu
Chapter hundred forty four
Hilda wasn't going to take chances with the new lady in town talking about Kingston like she knew him more than anyone else. Despite Gilbert and Eugene's warnings, she decided to take that risk and try to meet up with Cynthia once again. At first, Cynthia blatantly refused but after a second phone call and agreeing to go over to the spa again, she finally gave in. Hilda had to shift grounds and agree to meet in public since Cynthia was skeptical about coming to the estate. Dressed in a pair of black trousers and a chiffon top, Hilda moved into the spa and took a seat closest to the pool. It was a different crowd from the one she'd seen the last time at the spat. But they were very similar in many ways, rich, uppity, and lazy women who knew nothing about making a penny but a lot about how to spend it. Hilda could not help but feel a wave of jealousy wash over her as she waited in the spa. Cynthia using the place twice in a row was a sign that she visited there often. It was not a c
Chapter hundred forty three
The three men looked at each other in silence. What Fred had said made no sense at all, there was no singular way of knowing who the true heir of the Kingston inheritance was or what the illegitimate child should look like. "This sounds like utter bullshit and I mean no offense, Fred," Jeremy said. Maybe it was his cravings for Chinese food or that he was just hungry, or maybe it was the irritation from the previous day's meeting with Cynthia and Tricia. He wasn't certain exactly why but he could tell he had no patience for crap. "No offense taken, Jeremy, but it is rather sad that you can't see what's right before your face," Fred said and shook his head, sipping his black coffee that had just arrived at the table. "So you came all the way here to find me and speak to me in parables?" Jeremy asked, he was about to call him jobless but then he did not want to offend Fred. "That's a thoughtful thing to do, thanks," he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Fred laughed at his sarca
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