Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

He called his doctor to the house and his doctor told him he was only stressed and that nothing was wrong with him. The old man didn believe his doctor and that was when he started to suspect that enemies were lurking around them.

He didn want to alert the enemies, so he started to investigate things from the dark. His granddaughters wedding was fast approaching and she was extremely happy about it, so he didn want to ruin her happiness by revealing these things to her, and for that, she had to find out in such a heartbreaking way.

”S–sorry, ch–child, Im s–orry– ” the old mans dimmed eyes slowly closed and the hand on her cheeks was about to fall off when she grabbed it.

”N–no, no, grandpa, please don do this to me, grandfather, I beg you please… g–grandfather… ” She slowly put his hand down and gently patted his body in an attempt to wake him up.

”Grandpa! ” She called again while shaking him gently.

”Old man Lee! ” She patted his cheeks.

When hes sleeping and she sneaks into his room, she would pat his face like this and call him, old man Lee. He would smile before slowly opening his eyes to ask her what she wanted.

She only calls him by his name when she needs something, so she was expecting him to smile at her and ask her what she wanted, but her expectation was dashed!

”Old man Lee…grandfather!!! ” She started to shake him vehemently, but still, he showed no signs of waking up.

”Christine!! ”

”Guards!!! ”

”Maya!!! ”

”Aunt Martha!! ”

”Uncle Wong!!!! ”

But nobody came. Realization dawned on her that she was alone, all alone with her grandfather in the whole sitting room with no one to help.

She searched around the place with her blurry eyes, looking for anything that could help her and she spotted the telephone.

She laid her grandfather on the cold floor and stood up. Jeslyn hurried to the telephone while stepping on her gown numerous times, almost falling.

On reaching the phone, she hurriedly picked it up, placed it on her right ear, and started to punch the ambulance number she had committed to her memory.

After punching in the numbers, she was expecting to hear an indication that her call was connecting or hear a voice from the other end, but nothing came even after trying it a few times. Her chaotic mind told her to check the wires and when she did, it was cleanly cut!

to her grandfather when she tripped over

but still managed to stand up. Dizziness washed over her and she swayed. But thanks to the table she held for

stayed like that for a while before she stood up and staggered towards her grandfather with blood

searching the couch they sat on earlier, she saw her phone, the damned phone she had been looking for, and hurriedly called the hospital for an abundance,

….

At the hospital….

sitting on a bench, glancing at the operation room every 2 seconds. She would stand up and pace around for a while then return to

hours until the operation

their nose masks on

doctor sighed and shook his head, ”Im sorry, young Miss, your grandfather couldn make it. The poison had destroyed his organs

limp body before she touched the floor and helped her

She turned to her right where the beeping sound was coming from and saw the monitor producing the sound. That was

sit upright but felt a needle pricking her wrist. She looked down at her wrist and it was an injection needle connected to a thin pipe. She sighed before

the TV screen in front of her was on and

she saw a few familiar faces, and then the ones that hit her

not her problem. However, why is she seeing Christine crying so much while looking at… wait, her grandfathers

turned cold. Shiver ran down her spine as memories flooded her mind. She forcefully pulled out the needle from her wrist, totally disregarding the fact that

away the white cover from her body and got

hard in the head but she ignored it and staggered out of the

either gave her weird looks or pointed fingers at her, yet, that wasn her concern.

However looking up, the billboards were playing

Rex could be seen trying to force the groom to tell him who he

brother wants to know. Tell me and I

from the dead if a parrot like you could keep shut for two

that. I might be

”Screech!!! ”

on his brothers palm,

about to hit his head on his brothers shoulder, but the groom was quick enough to stop his head with his

wrong with you?! If you can drive them you are fired! ” Rex yelled at the

master, it wasn my fault, a crazy woman ran into the

” Came the grooms annoyed

he wound down the tinted window and threw the phone out, then closed his eyes and rested his head

Whats wrong with this devil? That phone was

eyes had started to bore holes into the

away, I have already seen everything. It says that the D-list celebrity, Jeslyn Lee killed her grandfather because—

been paying attention to the people sitting in the back seat peeked her ears. On hearing the words that followed, she didn