Substitute Bride: Utterly Pampered by Her Billionaire Husband-Chapter 994: Her World Collapses

Ever since Hugh Xavier went in, Old Master Xavier had quieted down a lot. But Leah Thorne knew that all the schemes Laura Xavier had stirred up were orchestrated by Old Master Xavier behind the scenes. Now that he’s calling, it surely can’t be for anything good.

Leah pressed the button to answer the call, "Hello, Old Master."

"Leah, I’m calling to tell you something," Old Master Xavier got straight to the point.

"What is it?"

"It’s about your brother."

A sudden tightness gripped Leah’s heart, and a cold, wary light emanated from her eyes.

Old Master Xavier chuckled, "Leah, there’s no need to be nervous. Now that the hospital is full of Justin’s people, he handles matters flawlessly. Even if I wanted to harm your brother, I wouldn’t have the chance."

Leah sneered, "Then why this call?"

"What I mean is... do you really think the person in that ward is your brother?"

Leah’s heart skipped a beat, her slender white fingers clenched tightly around the phone, "What do you mean? Speak clearly! Are you saying the person in the ward isn’t my brother?"

"Whether it’s your brother or not is not for me to say. Why don’t you go see for yourself?" Old Master Xavier abruptly hung up the phone.

Listening to the "beep beep" of the busy signal, Leah’s face instantly turned cold. She had never doubted that the person in the ward wasn’t her brother, but the doctors had always stopped her, not even allowing her a glance inside.

Now that she thought carefully, Leah noticed something abnormal. Could it be that the person in that ward really wasn’t her brother, and Justin Xavier had deceived her?

Leah put the phone in her bag and headed straight for the hospital.

...

At the hospital.

Leah leaned against the small glass window on the door of the ward, looking inside. The person was still lying on the bed, everything was as before.

At that moment, a doctor walked over, "Mrs. Xavier, you’re here?"

Leah did not show anything, "Doctor, how is my brother doing? When can I go in to see him?"

The doctor quickly replied, "The patient’s condition is not optimistic. You can’t visit for now. Mrs. Xavier, if visiting is allowed, I’ll inform you immediately."

Leah carefully observed the doctor’s facial expression. When she spoke of "visiting," the doctor showed a hint of vigilance and nervousness. Leah didn’t want to alert anyone, so she just nodded obediently, "Okay, thank you, doctor."

"Mrs. Xavier, there’s no need to be polite." The doctor walked away reassured.

Leah didn’t do anything further, because as Old Master Xavier said, the hospital was full of Justin Xavier’s people. If he didn’t want her to see, he wouldn’t let her. Any action on her part could easily arouse suspicion.

Leah quietly watched through the small glass window, and soon it was evening. Her phone rang inside her bag; it was Justin Xavier calling.

Leah answered the call, her tone steady as usual, "Hello, President Xavier."

Justin Xavier’s smooth, magnetic voice slowly transmitted over, "Mrs. Xavier, you’ve been with your brother at the hospital all day. Can you come home now? Your time should be mine next."

Leah glanced at the time, "President Xavier, it’s only six o’clock. Aren’t your house rules too strict, having to go home by six?"

"To set a good example, I also go home by six."

"Well, a good man like you who returns home right at six is rare. President Xavier is indeed a good husband."

"I’ll pick you up."

"No need, I’ve already called a car. It’s here now, so I’ll hang up, bye-bye." Leah ended the call.

The moment she hung up, Leah’s eyes turned cold. She turned away and left.

"Mrs. Xavier, are you heading back?" the doctor in the corridor asked upon seeing her.

Leah nodded and smiled, "Yes."

The doctor’s and nurse’s expressions relaxed, as if they had finally sent off a deity, "Mrs. Xavier, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

Leah maintained a composed demeanor as she disappeared at the end of the corridor. However, she didn’t leave but instead quickly pushed open an office door and slipped inside.

A nurse’s uniform, freshly taken off, was hanging on the office coat rack. Leah took off her coat and put on the white nurse’s uniform, donning a hat and mask, then walked out carrying a notebook.

Everything went smoothly because Leah had lulled everyone’s nerves, making them let their guard down. Her small hands reached the door of the intensive care unit. With a "click," she pushed the door open and entered.

Leah step by step approached the bed. She was already very, very close to the person lying on it.

Thump.

Thump.

Her heart was beating wildly.

She didn’t even know why she was nervous.

Under the mask, her face was as pale as paper. Her hands, feet, her whole body’s bones were cold, cold as ice.

She was here to uncover the truth.

She wanted to see with her own eyes whether the person on the bed was her brother.

Justin Xavier...

The name suddenly popped into Leah’s mind. Justin Xavier, I beg you, please show me some mercy, will you?

Don’t deceive me anymore, don’t let me down again, will you?

She only had her brother left...

If she lost him, she didn’t know what she would do next.

Leah stopped in her tracks, looking at the patient covered in tubes on the bed, his face obscured by bandages, unrecognizable. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Leah slowly raised her small hand and peeled away the white gauze on the patient’s face.

She saw clearly.

A completely unfamiliar face appeared in front of her.

Not her brother.

Oh, so it really wasn’t her brother!

That was her most beloved brother. Even if he had a new face, even turned to ashes, she could recognize him at a glance; this person wasn’t him!

Justin Xavier.

Justin Xavier had ultimately deceived her!

Leah’s lashes trembled. Her eyes felt scorching hot, as if seared by some fireball, steamed with something, yet nothing fell.

She should’ve cried.

But, she couldn’t cry.

...

Leah didn’t know how she left the hospital. She got into a taxi, numb, sitting in the back seat, her head against the window, staring blankly at the city’s fleeting scenery, utterly desolate.

At this moment, her mobile phone rang again, it was a text message.

It was from Old Master Xavier.

Leah opened it, Old Master Xavier: Leah, what on earth are you thinking? Your brother Mort Thorne died long ago, in an explosion, nothing was left of his remains.

I personally went to the scene, so much blood, all your brother’s. Oh, and I saw something else, left in the blood, a doll.

Old Master Xavier sent a picture, it was Leah’s favorite doll.

But the doll was covered with dust and blood, lying on the ground.

Mom and Dad died in a car crash, her brother secretly returned, bringing her the favorite doll.

Leah slowly curled up her knees, burying her small face in them, she had nothing left, her world collapsed completely at this moment.