Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

94 Finding the truth.

Jeslyn immediately let go of Pink’s hand like she was holding a hot potato. “Wh- who are you?!” She turned fierce like she had seen an enemy. 1

Pink put down her sleeve and sighed. She rested her head on the car seat and slowly closed her “Alice, you did it till the end. She mumbled.

eyes.

“Y-you know my mother?” It was a rhetorical question. She had doubts about Pink’s behavior for the longest time but couldn’t prove it.

The way Pink treats her like her child right from prison, what Yellow was saying to her the other day in her room that Pink didn’t finish, how Pink protects her like a mother hen, the CCTV footage that captured Pink looking at her mother’s picture frame at the glass house. Amidst other little signs she had been “ignoring, told her Pink was related to her and she was bound to find out today, whether she liked it or not.

“Jeslyn, child…” Pink turned her eyes to the driver’s seat. “Find us a club.” She commanded Blue.

“Yes, boss!”

“A club?? Why!?” Jeslyn grew alarmed. For some reason, she detested clubs and party houses. That feeling started after she woke up from a coma.

“You want to know the truth, right? I’ll tell you everything, but only at a club.”

“But why a club?”

“I need some drinks.”

Jeslyn sighed in relief and relaxed. Although her mother told her to stay away from the people with half-heart tattoos, she was sure Pink wasn’t that person. Even though Pink was dangerous, she won’t stay away from her because she was sure Pink cannot harm her.

car stopped at a lavishly decorated restaurant. They got down from the car and headed inside. Jeslyn was a little perplexed. Didn’t Pink say club? When did a

words to him. The waiter nodded and

Jeslyn thought that Pink must have changed her mind and decided to use a restaurant instead, the table split in two and the

flabbergasted as she stared at the wonders in front of her. She forgot to look at Pink who

you’ll find the

mind back. Her state of mind as she stared at Pink was chaotic. Go in?… where? That dark ho le with blue lights coming from

Blue, and the waiter were smiling at her. To Jeslyn, it was a creepy smile. The

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her body falling down the dark ho le

and her eyes snapped open. She realized she was on her bed, in her room. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as she wiped them off

a nightmare, but when did she get here?

was pushed open and Pink walked in carrying a tray

are finally awake. You got me worried

respond. Her eyes followed Pink everywhere she went.

are you listening?”

Jeslyn asked, a little flattered.

sighed and sat on the edge of the bed. “What are you thinking

“Again?”

ordering Blue to

it. How could she faint out of the blue? She wasn’t si ck and her body

“Hmm.”

fine in the car just now.”

but your emotions overwhelmed your body after seeing the state your grandfather’s company

“Y-you mean, you mean we didn’t go