Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 296

"Yes." Yvonne clenched the blanket on her bed as she recalled the image of the masked old man, her eyes filled with terror.

The image of the old man was too traumatic for her.

Her heart went cold with fear as she thought of the grudge he had against the Lancasters.

Henry lowered his head to look at her when he noticed that she was acting strangely. "What's wrong?”

Yvonne closed her eyes. "Nothing, I just thought of the old man. Henry, he's the one that has helped Dominic t o appeal in court. He even forced me to sign the settlement papers. The most important part is that he has a deep grudge against the Lancasters and will stop at nothing to exact his revenge.”

"How do you know all this?" Henry's deep pupils flashed in surprise.

"He had told me all this himself," Yvonne recalled the old man’s cold eyes and shivered.

Henry squeezed her palms and said, "Don’t be afraid."

"I'm not, I was just thinking about how many people have grudges against the Lancasters. It feels like a casual bystander could even have a grudge against u s," mumbled Yvonne.

Henry twitched his lips. "The Lancasters do have quite a number of enemies, but most of them have harbored grudges because of business. Aside from the one who kidnapped Hayden, I know most of the enemies of the Lancasters who hate us because of work, and neither o f them is around the same age as Grandpa.”

"Does that mean that this old man is most likely the person who kidnapped your brother?" said Yvonne in shock, but immediately pouted her mouth." Something doesn't add up though, our suspect for your brother’s kidnapping is the Taylors."

"Madam, I actually got ahold of Elliot's hair while you were in a coma for the past two days," said Sue suddenly.

Yvonne quickly asked, "Have you done the DNA test? What's the result?"

Henry nodded, his voice was deep as he could not conceal his disappointment. "Elliot is not Hayden. The Taylors did not kidnap Hayden."

"It's not the Taylors?" Yvonne's eyes were wide open." Could it really be that old man?”

Henry pursed his lips. "It’s likely. I'll head to the family residence shortly to ask Grandpa to see if he knows anything about this old man. As for you, you stay here and recover from your wounds. You shouldn't head back to work even when you’ve recovered temporarily.”

Since Yvonne said that the masked old man would be coming after the Lancasters to no end, her kidnap would most definitely be just the beginning. He was sure that there would be more to come, the next one even more severe than the previous.

Hence it would be for the best if Yvonne had stayed put for the time being.

Yvonne understood Henry’s reason for not letting her g o back to work. Although she was quite reluctant, she still agreed and nodded to Henry.

She thought that it would be best if she did not cause any more trouble for Henry to worry about.

She was also a bit scared after being kidnapped twice i n a row.

"Are you hungry?" asked Henry as he poured her a glass of water when he saw that Yvonne's lips were quite dry.

Yvonne opened up the blanket and placed her hand o n her belly. "A little."

"Alright, I'll ask Shane if you’re allowed to eat."

He got up and left the ward after he spoke.

Shortly after, Henry returned to the ward with a small bowl in his hands, in it was a warm bowl of porridge.

Henry sat by her bedside and used a spoon to stir the porridge as he said, "Shane says you're not allowed to eat anything other than porridge for the next few days." "Only porridge..." Yvonne frowned her eyebrows.

Henry saw her reaction and grinned. "What's wrong? You don't want to?"

“No.” Yvonne shook her head vigorously. A sharp pain hit her as she momentarily forgot about her injury, and she groaned in pain.

Henry saw her in pain and immediately put down the porridge to check up on her.

Yvonne's heart warmed up when she saw Henry's worried look, and the pain on her neck seemed to disappear.

She took out her hand from under the blanket and pulled his sleeve and said, "I'm alright Henry."

"Don't move, just lay down," reminded Henry as he let g o of Yvonne’s neck gently.

Yvonne acknowledged with a hum and laid still.

Henry began to relax his stiffened face as Yvonne obediently did as she was told. He took up the bowl of porridge and scooped up and blew on it before holding it in front of her mouth. "Open wide."

Yvonne was startled as she saw the spoon being held near her mouth.