A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 308

He is back

Amber POV

Watching Emory administer the first dose felt strangely terrifying.

The small vial that had taken two weeks to create disappeared into Jason’s IV in less than a minute.

Then…

We waited.

Emory monitored Jason for hours, checking his pulse, blood pressure, pupils, and drawing fresh blood samples.

Late that evening, he finally smiled.

“The concentration is dropping.”

I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding.

“It worked?”

He nodded.

“It worked.”

“It isn’t curing him yet…”

“But the drug is leaving his bloodstream.”

Hope.

Real hope.

It had been weeks since I had allowed myself to feel it.

Emory studied the newest blood results.

“If everything continues like this…”

“I estimate somewhere between four and six doses before Jason fully regains consciousness.”

I smiled.

“So we keep going.”

“We keep going.”

He nodded.

“There is still something we don’t know.”

“What?”

“The long-term effects.”

He looked toward Jason.

“This concentration was unlike anything we’ve ever documented.”

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“I honestly don’t know if he’ll experience memory gaps…”

Changes in behavior…”

“Or no lasting effects at all.”

I accepted that uncertainty.

As long as I had Jason back…

We would face the rest together.

Life refused to stop simply because tragedy had visited us.

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The children still deserved normal lives.

So did I.

Mrs. Sun insisted I continue teaching my programming classes.

“The children need consistency.”

She was right.

So I walked into Alice’s classroom that Monday pretending everything was normal.

The lesson had barely begun before one little boy raised his hand.

“Miss Amber…”

“Is your tummy bigger?”

Twenty pairs of little eyes immediately turned toward me.

Before I could answer…

Alice proudly stood up.

“It is!”

She looked as though she had been waiting for someone to notice.

“I’m going to be a big sister!”

The entire classroom gasped.

“Really?”

Alice nodded enthusiastically.

“There are two babies!”

She held up two tiny fingers.

“I’m not going to be the youngest anymore.”

One little girl asked,

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“What are you going to teach them?”

Alice answered without even thinking.

“Computers.”

Everyone laughed.

“I’m going to teach them coding.”

She started counting on her fingers.

“Then cameras.”

“Then games.

“And how to escape bad guys.”

I covered my face with one hand.

“We might start with the alphabet.”

Alice looked genuinely confused.

“…That too.”

The children burst into laughter again.

Watching them…

Hearing Alice so excited…

Made me forget everything else, if only for a little while.

The days passed quickly.

Emory became faster with every batch he produced.

The first antidote had taken two weeks.

The next three doses took only five days.

By then, he had perfected the extraction process.

When he carried the finished vials into Jason’s room, everyone gathered silently.

“Ready?”

I nodded.

Jason received the second dose.

Then the third.

By the fourth…

Something changed.

His eyes followed us.

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Not the empty stáre we’d grown used to.

Recognition.

Awareness.

Life.

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Emory POV

I waited until everyone had left the room before returning.

It wasn’t that I wanted to keep Jason isolated.

I simply thought he deserved a quiet moment before facing everyone he loved.

The castle had finally settled into silence.

Mrs. Sun was at the school.

Marcus had gone back to work.

Amber was teaching one of her programming classes, stubborn as always. Even with everything happening, she insisted the children deserved normalcy.

That only left the two of us.

Jason was still asleep when I entered.

His breathing had become steadier over the past few days, and his blood work showed that the concentration of the drug had dropped significantly. The first three doses had done exactly what I had hoped.

Now came the fourth.

I checked the IV line one last time before picking up the small vial.

Two weeks of trial and error for the first successful antidote.

Hundreds of Starplants harvested one root at a time.

Dozens of failed batches.

I honestly wasn’t sure this one would work.

I slowly injected the medicine into the line.

“There you go,” I muttered.

“Let’s see if that ancient book was right.”

Then…

I waited.

Five minutes.

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Ten.

Twenty.

Nothing.

I was beginning to think this dose wouldn’t be enough either when Jason’s fingers twitched.

A small movement.

Then another.

His breathing changed.

A deep breath escaped his lips before his eyebrows furrowed.

Slowly…

Very slowly…

His eyes opened.

For several seconds he simply stared at the ceiling.

Confused.

Disoriented.

His gaze wandered across the room until it landed on me.

“…Emory?”

I couldn’t stop myself from smiling.

“Welcome back.”