Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

33 Jeslyn’s Agony- grandpa’s life lesson

Jeslyn returned to her room and sat on her bed, thinking about her matters. She still couldn’t believe that her dearest grandfather was dead. She slowly closed her watery eyes as the tears fell down her cheeks. 1

It hurts so badly. She didn’t get to see his body before he was cremated. She didn’t see his ashes and also, the most painful part is that she didn’t get to bid him farewell or attend his funeral.

That must be the reason she isn’t able to move on. All this while, she didn’t get a place… this quiet to think about her sorrows.

She had two unfeeling friends in prison who wouldn’t want to see her mourn or lament. Now that she is finally alone, she can cry now, right?

“Grandfather,” her lips shook. It hurts… Mentioning his name hurts very much.

“I miss you a lot…” she broke down in tears as she wailed like she had never before.

Jeslyn didn’t feel this way when her mother died and that was because she woke up after two years from a coma. Although she cried for a few weeks, she didn’t feel the kind of pain she was feeling right

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loved her but would rather do

would frown at Jeslyn for playing with dirt and wearing her slippers

see the goodness in life and protected

Lee, on the other hand, was the type of grandfather who would rather

man that would wear his shoes the wrong way when Jeslyn does, just to

would rather let Jeslyn fight her own battles than do it for her. He would stand by the side to blow a

amazingly gorgeous creatures, but at the

her, “my child, playing at the bank of the ocean just to admire the beauty is a wonderful thing but not an achievement. However, going into the ocean to see the dangers underneath it and

of these days I will join your mother, but what about you? You and your sister will be the only ones left in

peaceful and happy at the moment, but when I die,

road to success would come for you, the homes that were wrecked due to my indirect involvement would

beast of a father will come too.

do then? Learn to be strong, grow a thick skin, and hide your emotions under the facade of whatever persona you

on you, then dissolving

of allowing your grandmother to teach your mother that way, but I won’t make that mistake with you. If your mother had not gone away from home and went to live with that father of yours in country G, breaking all communications with me because I showed displeasure for that husband of hers, her life would have taken

mother’s dilemma when she came back home without you. I wanted to destroy

forget the lessons I taught

down beside him on the field after they finished playing golf on that day.

but why did you let me fall so hard and didn’t

me along with you. They didn’t just take