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!

grandfather when she tripped over her gown and fell, hitting her head

up. Dizziness washed over her and she swayed. But thanks to the table she held for dear life, she

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

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 to be missing suddenly appeared out

….

At the hospital….

the operation room every 2 seconds. She would stand up and pace around

continued like that for five hours until the operation room door

their nose masks on and asked in a frantic voice: ”Doctor,

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

before she touched the floor

She turned to her right where the beeping sound was coming from

needle pricking her wrist. She looked down at her wrist and it was an injection needle connected to a

so happened that the TV screen in front of her was on and a funeral scene was

a few familiar faces, and then the ones that hit her right on the core

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

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

cover from her body and got down

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

weird looks or pointed fingers at her, yet, that wasn her concern. She was too carried away to notice

found no taxi. However looking up, the billboards were playing her

could be seen trying to force the groom to tell him who he got married to,

to tell me who you got married to? Your lil brother wants to know. Tell me and I promise Ill

you could keep shut for two minutes. ”

that. I might be a parrot but–

”Screech!!! ”

hitting his head on his brothers palm, thanks to the driver holding

his brothers shoulder, but the groom was quick

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

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

over. ” Came

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

him. Whats wrong with this devil? That phone was just

bore holes into the villain,

phone away, I have already seen everything. It

of her 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 mental state and