Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 332

332 Visiting Piper 

“Paah! You naughty brat! You want to use me, huh?!” Rex realized that Valen was scheming against him the minute he said those last words. Stupid him, he almost fell for it! 1 

“Hehe, now that you’ve hit me, do you know that I can confidently tell my mom that you’ve been bullying me?” Valen raised a brow, looking extremely cute with a small daring smile on his lips. 

“What are you-” 

“I have a video of you hitting me. My mom will definitely charge you billions like she did to you the other day. Hehe.” 

Rex sighed and shook his head. Indeed, Jeslyn had suddenly become greedy for money that she goes about charging people billions when offended. When asked, she would say she’s preparing her future daughter–in–law’s dowry, imagine that! 

“You win, let’s go to your parents,” Rex relented. 

Valen beamed and began to walk languidly to the door, conceiving how to cause trouble for his father. 

Meanwhile, at the Lu hospital, Inspector Fin walked in with Beverly behind him. Once they got to the VIP room, they saw Piper sitting on her bed and watching TV. 

“Hey,” Inspector Fin smiled. 

“Hey, you’re here,” Piper returned the smile with her lips sealed. Her gaze traveled to Beverly who was behind Inspector Fin and she nodded slightly in greeting. 

Beverly also responded with a nod of her head. 

“Come in, what may I offer you,” Manager Sarafina stood up and gestured to the white couch in the 

ward. 

“I’m fine, thank you,” Beverly said as she walked in with her heels making clicking sounds, drawing everyone’s attention to her beautiful blue five or six–inch heels. 

“Your shoes are pretty,” Piper praised. 

“You’re way prettier,” Beverley returned the compliment. 

“I haven’t heard those words in weeks. Thank you.” 

“You’re welcome,” Beverly replied while pressing her phone. 

“I came around two days ago but you weren’t in your ward.” Inspector Fin chimed in. 

“Oh?” Piper glanced at Manager Sarafina. It was clear she didn’t tell Piper about it. 

“My bad, I forgot to inform you, I’m sorry.” Sarafina apologized. 

“It’s fine,” Piper picked up the apple on her plate with a fork and began to munch on it. 

A long and awkward silence filled the ward for a long time with everyone doing their thing before Inspector Fin cleared his throat and asked; “How is your health now?” 

“Doctor Matt said I’m fine now.” 

“When are you leaving the hospital?” he asked. 

“Ah-“Piper stopped talking when she caught sight of Beverly minding her business and typing away on her phone. “She’s your…” she stretched the last word with a questioning look. 

“She’s my-” 

“His childhood friend.” Beverly butted in and smiled with her lips sealed. 

Inspector Fin slowly glanced at the nonchalant Beverly for a while before he looked away. 

“Oh?” Piper could feel the tension between the two and from her experience, she could tell they weren’t just childhood friends. Something stronger was going on between them. She thought. 

“I’m Piper, Piper Xu,” she took the Initiative to introduce herself. 

“I’m Beverly, Beverly Xiang.” 

“Nice to meet you. Sorry, we had to meet in this kind of place.” 

“I don’t have a problem,” Beverly replied. 

Another silence swept through the room for a while before Piper’s phone rang. She glanced at the ID before handing the phone to Manager Sarafina. The Manager picked up the call and wanted to leave the room but Piper shook her head, asking her not to. 

“Hello,” Manager Sarafina said into the phone. 

The CEO of Rainbow Entertainment was seen, sitting among other higher–ups as he spoke into the phone. It was he who called Piper. 

“Hello, Piper, how are you do-?” 

“Mr. CEO, what are you calling for?” Manager Sarafina çut him off. 

“Sarafina?” The man frowned, and so did others. “What are you doing holding Piper’s phone?” 

“That does not answer my question. I thought I already made things clear to you. My artist and I are no longer coming back to your company!” 

“I don’t mind if you don’t come back, but Piper has to return.” 

“Hahaha, on what basis?” 

“On the basis that she will be breaching her contract if she doesn’t come back. The company is ready— to forgo the bad image she caused the company in these few weeks. When she returns, she will hold a press conference and tell everyone that she wasn’t kidnaped. She went out on a vacation with Brian, behind the company’s back and had a bad experience with some thugs that led to her situation. You don’t need to worry, she’ll only get bashed for a few days before the PR team would think of helping her come up with something. You know how it works.”