The Heiress He UnderestimatedChapter 42
The Heiress He Underestimated
Chapter 42
Chapter 42 The Frist WaveThe world, as it turned out, did not operate on Kieran Nethys’s schedule.In the cliffside fortress, the morning after the press conference was not spent monitoring news feeds or crafting rebuttals. It was spent in the slow, grueling aftermath of a medical siege. Drakonius was in the grip of the protocol’s first wave of side effects–a deep, bone–aching fatigue that left him listless and pale, and a persistent, low–grade fever that made his skin clammy to the touch.Elera was a constant, quiet presence. She moved between the lab, analyzing the first trickle of post- procedure data, and the dimmed room where he rested, her fingers often finding his wrist to count the stubborn, rapid pulse. She spoke to him in a low, clinical murmur, explaining what each new ache might mean, what each spike on the monitor represented. It was not comfort she offered, but information. And in his world of crumbling control, information was the only comfort that mattered.Simon brought a tablet into the room just past noon, his face carefully neutral. “Mr. Vex. You should seethis.”Drakonius, propped up on a mountain of pillows, opened his eyes. They were glassy with fever, but the sharp intelligence was still there. He took the tablet.
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