Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 57

57 Conscience appearance

Valen got on the bed and pulled a blanket to cover himself, ready for the agonizing pain that follows after he takes the pill. (

In a short while, the child started to stretch as beads of sweat slowly gathered on his forehead. The pain he was expecting finally hit him in full force. It was so unbearable that he let out an ear-piercing

scream.

Valen rolled around in bed and sometimes tears at his skin with his left hand, still, the pain was excruciating.

The walls were soundproofed which was why no matter how much he hollers, no one but the four walls in his room would engulf his screams. (1)

Valen’s tinted windows are soundproof and bulletproof.

It was Mulan’s idea, saying it wouldn’t be nice for a child like Valen to hear the sound of gunshots outside the house whenever war erupts.

The three musketeers’ houses never cease from unplanned wars. Maverick takes a fight anywhere and everywhere, provided the territory belongs to his enemies, the same way his enemies bring fights to his house.

After five minutes of distressful howls and screams, Valen finally calmed down… Unmoving and fell asleep with sweat all over him like he just came out of the pool. 2)

Inside Jeslyn’s room, the lady was still quaking. Pink couldn’t watch her suffer so much anymore while they wait for doctor Matt, so she gave Jeslyn a blow to her temple to help her sleep in a dead faint.

Jeslyn found herself in a pitch-dark place. She couldn’t see anything but only heard the dripping sound of water hitting the surface of something.

The sound travels and bounces back in echoes.

her voice sounding

and repeated a few times, “hello, anybody

space. Jeslyn couldn’t see where she was. She deliberated for a long while before choosing a destination, hoping she wouldn’t lose her

touched it. The surface was smooth. With the support of the smooth

until she felt sore in her legs, so she sat with her back to the wall to take

a rest.

already. She felt her throat going dry, but she wasn’t hungry or thirsty.

she had gone. Even though her eyes has adjusted to

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“Hohohohoho…”

She looked around her but

came again,

got frightened and hurriedly asked: “W- who

voice got creepier and spookier. The voice filled the whole place and traveled into the

managed

ASKING

her

was scared witless and worse of all, she doesn’t

can’t remember me anymore… It’s been a long

them

him die slowly, you couldn’t do anything for him and you even gave his property AWAY!” The voice boomed, making it sound

“I didn’t-”

fault that your grandfather died!! All the misfortunes that happened to the

Jeslyn’s scream, the other voice quieted down and only Jeslyn’s echo could

family isn’t mine. I am also a child of the Lee family! The woman you speak of is my mother and

my grandfather and the revenge I intend

died when I was in a coma. They told me she died because of a long-time malady she had been hiding from me, so how am I the cause? How am I

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