The Unstoppable Comeback Of the Unrivaled Ex-Wife-Chapter 515 - 503

"Ahem!" Susan had entered the room and witnessed the scene before her, and her face was black as thunder. Behind her was the caretaker that she had personally picked out for Ace.

Seraphina was mad that the happy atmosphere had been interrupted, so she was about to give the intruder a piece of her mind. However, when she angrily turned around, she was pinned by Susan’s sharp gaze.

She jerked away from Ace immediately and stammered, "A-Aunt Susan, why are you here?"

She had been feeling guilty ever since she and Jovan had secretly bribed the neurosurgeon to give Ace that brain surgery. She’d also been feeling paranoid and suspicious of everyone.

"My son is in a hospital bed, and you ask me, his mother, why I’m here?" Susan demanded, her voice tight with anger. She didn’t like how Seraphina had been going about this, so she started lecturing her. "You certainly have your ways, don’t you? You hid the fact that my son was injured for a whole week. Do you know that I was going crazy looking for him?"

Even though Ace looked alright, Susan was still worried about him. Seeing her son in bandages made her heart ache.

"I’m sorry, Aunt Susan, I was so shaken up that I didn’t think about that. I was afraid that you’d worry, so I-"

"Don’t give me excuses, unless... Is this guilt? Were you the reason why Ace ended up like this?" Susan asked suddenly, staring at Seraphina suspiciously.

"I didn’t, I..." Seraphina had no idea how to explain, and it made her look even more suspicious.

Ace furrowed his brows then said seriously, "Mom, if you’re here to visit me, then just visit me. Why are you getting mad at Seraphina?"

Susan was stunned. She glanced at Ace, then at Seraphina, looking confused. "Son, what happened to you? Why does it feel like you’ve become a different person? When did you become so protective over your friend?"

Not only was he being oddly protective, seeing them embracing earlier just made the worried mother even more bewildered.

"Seraphina is the woman I love, and I will also be making her my wife soon. Who else will I protect, if not her?" Ace replied bluntly.

"What did you say? Seraphina Murphy, is the woman you love?" Susan’s jaw dropped. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"Is there a problem with that?" Ace asked coldly. The love he felt for Seraphina was set in stone, and everyone knew it, so he didn’t understand why his mother would find it strange.

"There’s no problem, it’s just that hell seems to have frozen over." Susan eyed Seraphina skeptically, and turned to the caretaker. "Layla, take Ace’s pulse and see what condition his body is in."

"Yes, Madam." Layla nodded and walked over to Ace, then said calmly, "Master Moran, please hold out your left hand, I will take your pulse."

"Okay." Ace was in a somewhat cooperative mood, and held out his left hand.

Seraphina stood nearby, sweating bullets. She sneaked a glance at Susan, "Aunt Susan, is this girl really trustworthy? Everyone says that Chinese doctors are a scam, and she’s so young, so what would she know?"

"Don’t you look down on Layla – her father is the famous miracle doctor, Karter Bridges. She learned everything she knows from him, and will be able to tell what is wrong with Ace just from his pulse," Susan replied smugly, seemingly proud of who she had chosen.

"Re...really?" Seraphina’s breath hitched. ’Does that mean that the little ’tweaks’ we’ve done will be blown right out into the open?’

Layla expertly placed her slender fingers on Ace’s wrist, checking his pulse. After a few seconds, her delicate features wrinkled in concentration.

"What’s wrong? Is my son’s condition serious?" Susan stood beside her, feeling worried seeing Layla’s expression.

After around a minute, Layla finally moved her hand away, and gave a long sigh. "Master Moran’s pulse is very chaotic, it was weak yet as fast as a rushing river. It seems like a typical case of cerebral hemorrhage. It’s like it has recently been damaged or been through trauma. The situation is dire."

"Th... The brain has been damaged?" Susan looked at Ace with a heavy heart, unable to process what her darling son had gone through.

Overwhelmed with guilt, Seraphina snarled at Layla, "You immature child! How dare you say such things when medical experts just reported that Ace’s body was in stable condition? Why are you scaring us with all this talk of cerebral hemorrhage? Are you cursing him?"

Despite looking young, Layla was calm and composed. "Well, this is what I diagnosed from the perspective of a traditional doctor. If you believe that it is incorrect, Miss Murphy, please feel free to switch hospitals and have another doctor do a full body checkup on Master Moran. I believe that the results will be fair then."

"Easy for you to say! Ace’s body hasn’t healed yet, and he’s only just gotten better! If he switches hospitals now, he’ll get even worse!" Seraphina could not allow Ace to switch hospitals, at least not until the damage in his brain had healed. Otherwise, the things Jovan and her had done would be exposed, and they would be doomed.

"Miss Murphy, please believe in my skills. Master Moran’s pulse really is very unusual. Even if we don’t switch hospitals, surely you would accept a traditional doctor’s methods?" Layla’s words made

complete sense, which proved her right to be there. It also made it impossible for Seraphina to refuse, since it would seem like she was making a fuss again.

Seraphina’s mind raced to find a way out of this. "Oh, I remember something. Last night, Ace drank a cup of medicinal tea! Could it be that the tea had some issues that caused his stable condition to change?"

"That could be the case." Layla nodded. "If I could see the recipe for the tea, it would help."

"The recipe... Oh yes, there was a recipe!" Seraphina walked over to the trash can, and bent down to retrieve the paper she had crumpled up earlier. She then handed it to Layla.

"If you really are so renowned, then see if there’s anything wrong with this medicinal tea... but I have no doubt that it must be the tea that caused it. How else could a perfectly healthy person suddenly get worse after merely drinking medicinal tea?"

Layla took the paper and started to read through it carefully before her expression turned into one of shock. "Wh...Who gave you this recipe?"

"I was right, wasn’t I? It was all the tea’s fault!" Seraphina cried out in triumph.

She thought to herself, ’Hmph, I should have known that Everheart would not have left anything useful in the recipe for that medicinal tea. Good, now I can manipulate them with ease.’

"What’s wrong with the instructions?" Ace, who had been quiet the entire time, asked in a frosty tone, his expression dark.

"To answer your question, Master Moran, there is something wrong with this recipe... It’s simply too good to be true! Each medicinal ingredient in it is nothing special individually, but when combined, they have miraculous effects. It must be the work of a genius doctor!"