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.

found her voice sounding awkward.

a few times, “hello, anybody here?”

she was. She deliberated for a long

wall. She touched it. The surface was smooth. With the support of the smooth wall, she started to walk

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

a rest.

countless times already. She felt her throat

if she could get a hint of how far she had gone. Even though her eyes

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“Hohohohoho…”

looked around her but nothing was there, however, the echo of the sinister laughter was just

again, much louder and more

asked: “W- who are you?”

voice got creepier and spookier. The voice

managed to ask with

STILL ASKING ME THAT?!”

Her voice failed her out of

witless and worse of all, she doesn’t know what was going

me anymore… It’s been a long I visited you

to keep them from harm, and would give everything to protect old man

anything for him and you even gave his property AWAY!” The voice boomed, making it sound like a thunderclap

“I didn’t-”

to the Lee family are all your fault! Yours alone!” “I’m innocent!!” Jeslyn screamed.

other voice quieted down and only Jeslyn’s echo

mine. I am also a child of the Lee family! The woman you speak of is

how much I treasured my grandfather and the revenge I intend

because of a long-time malady she had been hiding from me, so how

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