President’s Sweet Wife novel Chapter 26

"That medicine is laced with some herb, which has the effect of temporarily paralyzing the vocal cords, but it usually doesn't last long, and she should be able to talk before too long."

Archie nodded, and only then he let Brian send her out.

After the other people had all left, he walked over to the bed and looked at the woman lying on it.

At the moment, Natalia was much quieter, lying obediently under the blanket, not moving at all, as if she was asleep.

Only the small face, still flushed with scarlet, unintentionally revealed her pain and stoicism.

Archie looked at her for a while, didn't say anything, and turned around and walked away.

A few seconds later, the sound of clattering water came from the bathroom.

Natalia opened her eyes in a daze and felt a large, tall shadow looming towards her.

"Go soak in cold water for a while, huh?"

She looked at him and nodded.

Archie picked her up horizontally and walked towards the bathroom.

The wide bathtub was already well filled with water, and Archie put her in. The cold water stimulated her body to shiver and she couldn't help but hold her arms tight.

"Can you sit still by yourself?"

Natalia nodded, wanting to say yes, but the man only let go before her body went limp and her body plunged into the water.

A soft sigh of helplessness rang out overhead.

The next second, her body was scooped up, and she coughed twice in pain and spat out a mouthful of water.

Just as she was about to open her eyes, a towel came up and in a not-so-gentle motion, He wiped the water off her face.

A sound of water.

Archie sat in.

He sat right behind her, letting her lean against him, with his arms wrapping around her.

Natalia's spine instantly stiffened, only to feel as if her back was leaning against a wall of volcanic rock, which was hot.

Strong hormone filled her nostrils, and the fever that had just been pushed down in her body stirred again.

She couldn't help but struggle up and try to refuse, but an unpleasant cold voice came from behind her, "Don't move!"

Archie darkened his face. He was not in good mood being rejected by her. If not afraid that she slipped into the water and drowned herself, he would not sit in.

Natalia wasn't the only one who suffered from such a position.

Natalia seemed to have thought of this, her face changed. After making sure he wouldn't do anything, she sat meekly still.

There was silence all around, and the two people were quietly soaking in the water. Because of each other's body heat, the originally cold water didn't seem so cold anymore.

She was so weak that she could barely even sit down if it weren't for Archie holding her in the back.

At the thought of who drugged her, she felt ridiculous.

Originally, she thought that the Dawson family, no matter how hateful they were, were just eccentric and wanted her to give up voluntarily so that they could fulfill Shawn and Jessica's good deed.

She originally did not intend to have any further involvement with Shawn, so it did not matter if he was with Jessica.

But to her surprise, they were even more cold-hearted than she thought.

To be able to get the two together logically without being criticized for gossip, they actually falsely accused her of having an affair with Alfred!

In addition, they drugged her and tried to send her to that scum's bed!

That was her father and her grandmother!

If she hadn't grown up in the Dawson family, if she hadn't gotten along with this family fairly well for the first eighteen years, she really would have wondered if she was the Dawson family's own child or not!

Raging anger mixed with untold sorrow surged through her chest.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

It was finally less hot in her body and her sanity seemed to be clearing up.