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!

the table. She was about to hurry back to her grandfather when she tripped over

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

up and staggered towards her grandfather with blood trailing down

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, not having the time to think of

….

At the hospital….

a bench, glancing at the operation room every 2 seconds. She would stand up and pace

for five hours until the

on and asked in a frantic

sorry, young Miss, your grandfather couldn make it. The poison had destroyed

she touched the floor

beeping sound was coming from and saw the monitor producing the sound. That was when she registered she was

it was an injection needle connected to a thin pipe. She sighed before sitting with her

in front of her was on and a funeral scene was being

then the ones that hit her right on the core were Ray

is she seeing Christine crying so much while looking

as memories flooded her mind. She forcefully pulled out the needle from

away the white cover from her body and

the head but she ignored it and staggered

everyone she bumped into either gave her weird looks or pointed fingers at her, yet, that wasn her concern. She was too

to the road but found no taxi. However looking up, the billboards

seen trying to force the groom to tell

lil brother wants to know. Tell me and I promise Ill

from the dead if a parrot like you

that. I might be a

”Screech!!! ”

the f*ck! ” Rex cursed after hitting his head on his brothers palm, thanks to the driver

about to hit his head on his brothers shoulder, but the groom was

you?! If you can drive them you are fired! ”

it wasn my fault, a crazy woman ran into the road. ” The

over. ” Came the grooms annoyed

window and threw the phone out, then closed

wrong with this devil? That phone was just custom-made

his 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—

name, Jeslyn who had not been paying attention to the people sitting in the back seat peeked her ears. On hearing the words that followed, she didn know how she found the strength to go against her weak