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!

about to hurry back to her grandfather when she tripped over her

but still managed to stand up. Dizziness washed over

up and staggered towards

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, not having the time to think of how her phone which was supposed

….

At the hospital….

the operation room every 2 seconds. She would stand up and pace around for a while then return to her bench

hours until the operation room door

out with their nose masks on and asked in a frantic voice: ”Doctor, how is my

young Miss, your grandfather couldn make it. The poison had destroyed his organs and… Miss Jeslyn!

doctors immediately supported her limp body before she touched the floor and helped

eyes to a white room and heard a beeping sound. She turned to her right where the beeping sound was coming from and saw the monitor producing

to 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.

so happened that the TV screen in front of her was on

frowned when she saw a few familiar faces, and then the ones

is she seeing Christine crying so

spine as memories flooded her mind. She forcefully pulled out the needle from her wrist, totally disregarding

from her body and got down from

first step towards the door, pain hit her hard in the head but she ignored it and staggered out of the room

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

no taxi. However looking up, the billboards were

force the groom

to tell me who you got married to? Your lil brother wants to know. Tell

dead if a parrot like you

don be like that. I might be a

”Screech!!! ”

on his brothers palm, thanks to the driver holding

shoulder, but the groom was quick enough

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

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

” Came the

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

wide-eyed at him. Whats wrong with this devil? That

though his eyes had started to bore holes into the villain,

have already seen everything. It says that the

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