A Replacement Bride

Chapter 270

Chapter 270

Joaquin instantly frowned at these words while Katherine merely looked coldly at the woman from the corner of her eye without so much as a change in her expression.

Marcus stepped forward at once. Looking at the woman in displeasure, he reproached sternly, "Watch your mouth, Lexie! How can you call her a novice? She's the only person who can save the Frasers!" After finishing his sentence, he shot her a contemptuous glare. "Also, you're nothing but a maid of the Fraser Family. I didn't bother to argue with you since you always take good care of the Frasers, but you'd better not forget who you are. Don't think you can do whatever you want now that the Frasers are in trouble. It's not up to you to swagger around in this mansion like you're the master," he said, immediately exposing Lexie for who she was.

Lexie's face darkened somewhat at the man's words. The Frasers had recently been afflicted with the man-faced curse; so, as the only person unaffected by the outbreak, she had been taking care of the Frasers these days. With all her employers bedridden, she lived much more comfortably in this mansion despite being a petty maid. As her employers had to be quarantined in their respective bedrooms, she was left with nothing to do. Not only that, she'd even make tea and coffee for herself and enjoy lounging on the luxurious couch. As a result, she became more presumptuous and even acted like the master of the house for a time. Now that Marcus had exposed her like that in front of others, she felt embarrassed for quite a while.

Not wanting to waste time and not bothering to gauge Lexie's mood, Katherine asked in an impassive voice, "Where are the patients?"

He answered at once, "They're all upstairs. Mr. Fraser hasn't returned here in the last couple of months, so he probably wasn't infected. The only ones in the Fraser Residence are his daughter-in-law

Patricia, his granddaughter Cyndi, and his grandson Myles." In other words, the only ones here were Zak's wife, daughter, and son.

Katherine nodded before immediately going upstairs and checking on the three of them in turn. "This woman's condition is the most urgent," she said, giving her judgment immediately. Pointing at the shrunken-looking Patricia in bed, she continued, "She has to be treated first, or she may not be able to make it and die here in no time."

Having complete faith in her medical prowess, Marcus instantly nodded at her words. "Alright. Do you need my help with anything?" This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .

She shook her head; her eyes flickered when she thought of the secret parchment scroll in her hand. "I have only one request: Nobody will be allowed to enter the room while I'm treating her. Please get these nurses out of the room."

Complying fully with her request, he quickly shot the nurses in the room a look. "Get out of here, you all."

At this moment, however, Lexie popped up again, blocking the door and refusing to let the nurses leave. At this sight, Marcus reproached in displeasure, "What the hell are you doing?"

"That's my line, Mr. Town! Ain't I the one supposed to ask that woman about this?" Lexie frowned while raising her hand to point at Katherine in an apparent display of defiance. "It's not that I don't believe you, Mr. Town. I trust your character, but I think you might've been fooled by this woman. Just look at how young she is. What does she know? How could she possibly be that superbly skilled in medicine? And now, she's demanding that everyone get out of the room. I think she's just a charlatan who knows nothing and is pulling the wool over our eyes! She's only asking everyone else to get out to not give herself away!"

Seeing as to how she had gone so far in her speech as to be simply unreasonable, Marcus was infuriated. "What nonsense are you talking about?! Why would she come with me if she couldn't cure diseases and save lives? What's more, even if she gets everyone else out of the room, won't she give herself away even further if she fails to cure Mrs. Fraser of the curse?"

At this, Lexie immediately snorted with laughter like a know-it-all. "Isn't that simple? Nobody knows anything about this man-faced curse, anyway, and there's no cure for it. All she has to do is stay in the room for about an hour—perhaps playing some petty tricks while she's at it—then come out and say that she's done everything she could, no? Ha! I've already seen through the trick she's got up her sleeve!"

"Shut up!" He wished he could clap his hand over her mouth to silence her when he heard this. "What do you know? You're just assuming everyone is as despicable as you are! Just step aside if you know nothing!"

At this moment, Katherine, who had been silent all this time, suddenly shifted her gaze toward Lexie. Her pretty face seemed to turn into frost as her cold, piercing gaze fell upon Lexie's face. "It's fine to have no common sense, but if your brain is addled, you better seek treatment before it's too late. Perhaps your brain can still be saved," she commented casually as if it was a joke, but it carried a sarcastic undertone

The instant Lexie heard this, her face turned livid; she opened her mouth and was about to retort.

Just then, Patricia seemed to be awakened by the noise. Waking up in a daze, she weakly looked around the room with a confused look. "What…" As soon as she spoke, her voice cracked terribly like that of a person letting out their last cry in the final moments before their death. Perhaps because she'd been in a lethargic state for too long, a large mouthful of air filled her dry throat when she suddenly opened her mouth, causing her to choke and burst into coughing fits.

At the sight of this, Lexie hurriedly stepped forward. Still, fearing that she might get infected, she could only serve Patricia a glass of water while cautiously keeping her distance from the latter. "Please have some water, madam," she said. Then, shooting a glance at Katherine from the corner of her eye, she immediately began complaining. "Madam, you're not aware of this, but this woman might've killed you had I not stopped her just now!" she said, deliberately describing the situation in a bad way.

When Patricia heard this, her hand trembled in fright, spilling water out of her glass onto the covers.

Marcus never expected Lexie to say that, and his face clouded in an instant. "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Patricia turned her gaze toward Katherine, then turned to look at Marcus. The worry was written all over her sickly face. "Mr. Town, w-what exactly is going on?"

At this moment, Joaquin took a step forward to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Katherine. Then, he explained on her behalf, "Mrs. Fraser, my wife was invited here by Mr. Town to save the lives of your family, but this maid of yours is very ungrateful. Not only does she show zero gratitude, but she slings mud at my wife instead. Do the Frasers discipline their maids so loosely as to allow one of them to point fingers and make irresponsible remarks at visitors and even willfully throw wild accusations against someone who's about to save their lives?"

Patricia's eyes lit up when she heard that Katherine could relieve the Frasers from their misery, but her brows furrowed at how young the lady looked. "May I know who the two of you are?"

Hearing her question, Marcus immediately attempted to introduce the couple.

However, Katherine spoke before he could. With a chilly expression, she cocked an eyebrow slightly while looking down at the woman before her with a vague half-smile. "Does it matter that much who we

are? When you see a doctor to save your life, would you care about who the doctor is? Isn't it enough to know they're a doctor?"