The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

Flynn looked at his sisters then at Xiehan who was wondering why he wouldn’t let Han Xichen check on him. "Can I have a word with my sisters?"

"I’ll be outside." He nodded and pressed a reassuring kiss on Lanni’s cheek before leaving.

"Are you okay, Luna?" Flynn asked. "It might be triggering to you."

"Nothing is more triggering than you hiding such news from us." She glared at him.

He reclined back on the pillows. "Han Xichen poisoned me." He sighed.

"What?" Lanni muttered under her breath, finally understanding things she thought didn’t make sense in the past. Why would Flynn be so obedient to Han Xichen if he hated him so much?

"He would give me an antidote every week to weaken the poison. He is the only one who had it so if I ever disobeyed him, he would let the poison take effect. It was agonising." He swallowed.

She shut her eyes when she thought about it. "We should have killed him in a more painful way. Wait. You knew that if he died, you would die from the poison. Why did you agree to kill him?"

"I met Veruschka." He smiled, his face not holding any regret. "She is a doctor. She spent months studying the poison in my body and managed to develop an antidote for me. It was in the final stage of development but she wasn’t certain about its effectiveness. Then I learnt of the things Han Xichen had done to the two of you in secret."

Lanni facepalmed. "Why would you put your life on the line for our revenge?"

Since he was in this state, it was obvious that the antidote had not been as effective as they hoped.

"I had wanted him dead for too long. It didn’t matter if I died for killing him." He forced a smile. He never would have thought that not only would he and Veruschka fall in love, but he would also ruin her life by knocking her up.

Luna stood and blinked away her tears. "I’m going to contact Veruschka."

"You don’t need to."

She didn’t hear him because she had already left the ward.

Lanni stayed with him for a little longer until he fell asleep, then she joined Luna in her car.

The latter had already found a way to contact Veruschka.

"She agreed to meet up with us." Luna stretched out her limbs and reclined against the backrest.

"Will she come over, or should we go to Germany?" Lanni asked.

"She agreed to come over. She is four months along and can still travel around. On the other hand, Xingyu will not let me go overseas in his absence and I don’t want to make him leave his work for me."

Lanni nodded. "I’m glad she is not mad at the whole family because of what Flynn told her to do."

"She will take the first flight here. Poor girl, she didn’t even know that he was unwell. He didn’t leave her as an emergency contact and didn’t tell her when he woke up either. She almost fainted in shock when I told her."

Lanni once again wanted to beat the crap out of Flynn. It was already bad enough that she had to watch the man she loved as he lived the final months of his life. If she fell in love with him even while knowing that he was his patient and she would probably lose him, it must be true love.

...

Although Flynn had insisted that there was no cure to the poison, Xiehan still called Han Xichen over to check if there was anything that could be done. Unfortunately, it would take at least a month for Han Xichen to improve the antidote that Veruschka had developed and at least three to create a new one. Either way, there was no way to be certain that it would work.

Although there was medication that could be used to slow down the symptoms, Flynn decided against taking them. He preferred not to prolong his life which would consequently increase his agony.

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Veruschka arrived two days later and she was nothing like Lanni and Luna thought. Unfortunately, she was too late to have a glimpse of Flynn before he breathed his last.

"How could he do this to me?" She broke down in Lanni’s arms when the news was broken to her. "How could he leave us? How are we supposed to live without him?"

Lanni hugged her and patted her back in solace. "It’s alright."

Veruschka’s mood was constantly changing. She would be stable for a while and explain to her and Luna that Flynn was better off not feeling the pain he had to go through whenever the effects of the poison acted up. The next moment, she would break down and blame Flynn for not caring about her and their son by dying and leaving them on their own.

"You’re a strong woman, Veruschka. You can..." Lanni stopped speaking when the woman pushed her away.

"I’m tired of hearing that! Just because I’m strong, I’m expected to endure everything?"

"That’s not what I meant." Lanni panicked when the latter caught the wrong meaning to her words.

"When my father died, I was expected to be strong enough to move on. When my mother left me, of course, Veruschka is strong. And now when the love of my life is gone, can’t I cry for a bit?" She sniffled.

"It’s okay to cry." Lanni wiped her own tears away. They were standing outside the hospital morgue. She was still in denial and part of her would cling to the thought that Flynn had been mistaken to be dead. Perhaps if she waited for long enough, she would see him flail his arms and help him up, then it would be revealed that he was in fact still alive. Every time she went back for confirmation, she would caress his face only to be met with icy coldness. In the end, the staff at the morgue had to drag her out and wouldn’t let her back in anymore.

Veruschka and Luna couldn’t be allowed in and could only wait for the wake.

Flynn had written a will which was yet to be read officially, but the attorney who had verified it had revealed that Flynn wanted to be laid to rest the same way his mother was laid to rest, but in his sister’s hometown.

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AN

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