OMG!!! My Crippled Husband is a Hot, Powerful CEO-Chapter 156 – You mean Joanna is using him too?

"Colton, are you sure it’s right for me to see him? I mean, I could be investigated," Tess complained, feeling afraid and nervous but was amazed by how her brother remained steadfast.

For a moment, she thought all hope was lost, and she almost gave up, but he suddenly resurrected her hopes once more, for reasons she could not pinpoint.

"Didn’t you say that Dion promised her savior would be the one to marry Alex?" Colton asked. Tess wondered why he was going back to buried issues and not knowing where this was going. freewёbnoνel.com

"Yes, she did, but Alex is married now." She had given up after all the events of the wedding, until her brother brought it up again.

"I just found out that Alex would do whatever her sister wants, including divorcing Joanna if she asked. From everything I gathered from the wedding, I feel that Alex married Joanna for his inheritance and vice versa."

Tess was liking where this was going. It felt like honey on her tongue for Alex and Joanna’s marriage to not be real, the shocking part being that Joanna also had more to gain from it.

"You mean Joanna is using him too?"

"Logan mentioned that when he dated Joanna, she proposed a fake marriage to get her mother’s shares. She also confessed at the wedding to have been the one to propose to Alex, so what do you think?" Colton asked, leaving the thinking for his sister to do.

Tess was gladdened. "If that be the case, then we still stand a chance, but if Alex knows I’m your sister, he would never believe me," she said sadly, but Colton already prepared a solution to her problem.

"I know, and that is why I created a new identity for you." He gave her an ID card. "You shall be Mabel Dawson from now onwards, and you can tell him that due to the effect of the fire, you took up nursing to help the sick. As a doctor, I will be able to provide all that you need."

Tess’s heart warmed greatly. For the first time in a long time, she was certain that the man she loved was going to be hers because of how thought through her brother’s plan was.

"Thank you, Colton. Alex would be mine, and so would Joanna be yours, but do you have any idea who Alex is searching for?" she asked seriously. Colton’s lips pursed together, bitterness lacing his tone.

He didn’t want to divulge this information before, but since they were both in the same soup, he reluctantly revealed.

"Yes, I do."

Tess was nervous but also more interested in the conversation than before. "Let it out, please."

Colton did not have proof, but after connecting some dots, it was easy for him to conclude on a few things.

"I have a feeling that the woman who saved Dion is Joanna, and she can’t remember because of her memory loss. This is why you have to be there, so that Dion and Joanna never meet."

As a doctor and judging by Dion’s condition, he was certain that should the two women meet, Dion would be able to remember everything clearly and would also be able to discern she had been drugged into having those hallucinations and thinking that Tess saved her life.

Tess was saddened to hear this but was determined to ensure that Joanna never meets Dion.

From the way Dion was always upset by the mention of Alex’s wife, she knew that would be easy, but the strange bit was how Alex and Joanna’s fates had been intertwined from the onset.

Who knew that Joanna would be the woman he was searching for all this while?

If he found out it was her, he might not even allow her feet to touch the ground, judging from the way he treated her now. Tess was determined to make this work.

"Okay. I will leave now." As she reached the entrance, Colton issued a reminder.

"And remember. As soon as you get there, add a little of the drug into her water," he instructed. Tess nodded in agreement.

Arriving at Dion’s safe house and having bribed one of the caregivers already, it was very easy to see Dion with just one instruction.

"From today, you shall call me Mabel Dawson."

Finally, she was going to meet Alex as Dion’s savior and was anxious about the outcome. The caregiver nodded as Tess stuck a pile of cash into her palm. "Don’t worry. We got someone to tamper with the CCTV footage."

For as long as everything was peaceful, it was easy for attention to be shifted from the CCTV footages from time to time so as they slowly wiped out bits and pieces, it would be too late for them to find the culprit by the time everything was brought to light.

The caregiver was relieved after hearing those words, and as soon as Dion saw Tess, she called Alex on the phone, insisting that he got there on time.

Hearing from Dion that she would elope if Alex didn’t get there, warmed Tess’s heart greatly, giving her the certainty that Alex would not only be there, but would soon be hers as well.

However, she went to the next room to calm her nerves when Alex arrived, pretending to be asleep.

After all she witnessed at the wedding, she already discerned that a man like Alex was not easily fooled, and as such, the least nervousness might make him suspicious of her motives.

Yet, as much as she tried, the mere thought of Alex got her nervous, though she was secretly obsessed with him.

Hearing a knock on the door, her heart beat escalated, but not only that, a caregiver opened the door without her responding.

It was not the one she bribed, meaning that one must have completed her shift.

"Master would like to see you at the patio," the caregiver informed her. Her edginess grew. She wanted Alex to come to the room and not the other way around.