Chapter 117: The Heiress's Request

[Juliette’s POV]

One and a half weeks later, I was finally discharged.

I had threatened the doctor to discharge me a week after I had woken. But since I was still a woman with nothing, and he, a doctor placed in charge of the Mafia King’s wife while the king was absent, he ignored me and released me only in due time.

I was still frowning in displeasure as I strolled out of the hospital with my arm around my husband’s.

Ralph couldn’t stop chuckling. “Cut the doc some slack, eh babe? He did personally visit the ward to give you a formal apology.”

“Humph. That’s because you told him to.” I glared at the main exit glass door, staying open as a lady pushed an elderly in a wheelchair through.

“I swear, I didn’t.”

I glanced at him in slight surprise as we crossed the border of humans’ sanctuary and returned to reality.

As the gush of warm air welcomed me back, I muttered, watching ahead, “Fine. I’ll let it go this time.”

And rough fingertips tipped my chin for a pair of large