Chapter 98

The next instant, a bloodcurdling scream echoed through the villa. "You're downright merciless, Josephine Dunn!" Zayn couldn't believe she had actually poked his wound with her finger. Noticing the color drain from his face and beads of cold sweat forming on his brow, she couldn't help but feel a little smug. But guilt crept in too. "I warned you. But you didn't listen." Zayn was both furious and in pain. If it had been anyone else, he would've kicked them out by now. But when he noticed the smile on her face and her icy expression finally softening to something closer to her old, sweet self, he thought the pain was worth it. "Josephine, I—" Right then, there was a knock on the door. He instinctively frowned and was about to say something when the bedroom door swung open, and Nadine walked in with a plastic bag. "Zayn, I got the medicine you asked for. Oh—Mrs. Forbes, you're here as well." Josephine immediately stiffened. She turned to look at Nadine, disbelief etched across