Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 68

68 What was that sound?!

“It seems you can’t eat everything at the moment. I should take the cake away while you eat the pastry,” She said. ↑

Seeing that his swollen eyes were focused on the mooncakes, Jeslyn smiled and picked out a purple and white one and cut it into four parts, revealing the cooked egg and date paste inside.

She could have baked the pastry if she hadn’t cooked the egg, but she doesn’t like the taste of baked mooncakes. She likes it with a little bit of a chewy and melting feeling.

Remembering something, Valen paused and looked at Jeslyn.

“You don’t like it?” Jeslyn asked, a little worried.

“I don’t eat sweet things.”

“Oh… that, your father permitted it. He said you are allowed to eat mild sweet things once a week.”

The boy said nothing and just picked a piece of mooncake. He examined the cake for a while before he took a bite. The shell was mildly sweet until he tested the date paste and egg.

Chewing them together with the softshell of the cake was simply delicious. One of the best things he had ever tasted. After all, he’s not allowed to eat sweet things.

“How does it taste?” Jeslyn asked with puppy eyes, waiting to get compliments from Valen.

Valen looked at her but said nothing and continued to eat quietly.

Jeslyn sighed and sat dejectedly. “Boy, it’s not easy to make food, you should show appreciation when a favor is done for you.” She lamented while pouting.

“You said it’s an apology,” Valen reminded her with puffy eyes staring at Jeslyn without emotion.

“Hmm, but there’s no harm in saying something to me for my hard work,”

“I didn’t say I needed you to-”

fine, just eat in peace. You still need a

fine now, I don’t need a massage,”

That won’t do. You’ll get a headache

Valen was starting to get annoyed

or Jeslyn. He just wasn’t liking how he had become free with

right, but… forget it,” Jeslyn

while, Valen was done eating. Jeslyn made a call, telling Maya to bring a cold

a massage,”

to protest, but Jeslyn pulled him into the bed and started to massage

a few minutes. With the cold patches ready, she placed them on Valen’s forehead before she sent Maya to take

to the

she was away. Inside the quiet kitchen, Jeslyn opened the fridge and took out a bottle of water which she poured into a glass cup. She took her

“Boom!”

from nowhere. It shook the mansion

water.

“Hack- hack- Ahem…”

of coughing while trying to

pull herself together…

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Dun-Dun-Dun-Dun-Dun!”

“That’s a… Gun!!…”

glass cup dropped from her hand and water spilled all

“Va- Valen!”

sprinting straight to the child’s room. Everywhere was quiet except from the gunshots coming

She just realized it.

to the urgency to go

without looking when a voice pulled her from her world.

“What’s the urgency?”

the man in black staring at her

trembling finger at the entrance, believing he mustn’t have

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