Chapter 36

Selena sounded feeble. She initially wanted to smile at Elijah to cheer him up, but her smile was somewhat distorted. "I have a good immune system. It'll get better once I get some sleep. Don't worry," she reassured. Elijah sized Selena up with a sharp gaze. He sneered. "Good immune system? You're just afraid of needles, right? Selena, do you think that I wouldn't even know this about you after being married to you for so many years?" Before Selena met Jordan, their marriage was rather harmonious. Under Elijah's care, Selena rarely got sick. But every time she got ill, she would refuse to get an injection. Elijah always had to coax her into getting one. Selena looked away shiftily, denying, "I'm not afraid…" "Is that so?" Elijah snickered. He took his phone out and called the family doctor to have him come over quickly. 20 minutes later, the doctor arrived. He took Selena's temperature and found that her fever was in a dangerous range. He seemed to know that Selena would resis