Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

123 Perforated eardrum

Jeslyn’s heart thumped louder and fiercer like it would fly out of her chest any minute. Maverick can’t be that wicked, right? She opened and closed her mo uth but no words came out of her throat.

Yes, she sought vengeance, but it wasn’t against the innocent. She was only after Ray and his sister, then her Chen family.

“I’m… I’m sorry, that was all she could say. No wonder he drank so much. No wonder he sounded like a dying man.

Ray chuckled. “It’s not your fault, Jeslyn. I know that you wouldn’t have allowed it if you knew. You are a good person, so I’m pleading with you, do not turn evil. Do not let vengeance consume you. We will all pay for what we do. It might take a while but all evildoers will face retribution one way or the other. Just like I’m facing mine now.

The other two people, I don’t know who they are but I suspect Frank is one of them.”

“Yo-your friend?” She asked.

“Yes. Frank loves you and has been stalking you since forever. He became friends with me just to be close to you. He ki lled my sister as revenge for what I did to you.

Jeslyn, you need to know this, Frank is a ps ychopath. He is obsessed with you… Beware of Emilee and Fran…” 3

Jeslyn detected the quickening of his voice, like someone who wanted to immediately pass across important information but his voice abruptly stopped and the next thing Jeslyn heard was a loud, “boom!”

The phone shook and fell off Jeslyn’s hold. Her hand that was holding the phone was trembling. Her eardrum rang loudly and a throbbing headache assaulted her temple.

Jeslyn felt dizzy and her vision turned blurry. A few moments later, blood started to trail down her right ear. She fell on her makeup desk in a dead faint.

Meanwhile, in Rose City, what looked like a condemned object, or rather parts of a condemned car could be seen by the side of the road.

The folded object was so badly damaged that the officers couldn’t decipher if it was a car or something else. It was only after checking the CCTV footage a few meters away that they realized it

was a car.

The CCTV footage around the vicinity of the incident was all damaged due to the shockwave of the explosion.

a missile?” One of the

missile would have ruined the City,” another sneered at

can’t

kind of effect can

Two days later…

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had a sweet smile gracing her flawless face as she spoke with Rex who was drinking a canned drink. “She’s so pretty. Despite

She might look weak but you wouldn’t want to taste her

interesting, tell me

naive and

main ingredient to be successful in the industry. Impressive. I

eyes at Rex before she

here any time soon.”

then the door clicked and opened. Maverick walked into the VIP ward. Celeste and Rex stood up and

“Brother you’re here.”

nodded at her before he went to stand beside

the doctor?”

into the room. Some went to examine Jeslyn while the

will she be awake?”

should be awake by this evening or tomorrow morning. Her situation is not that bad. Her eardrum is perforated due to a loud explosion… ” the team

in Rex’s direction. Rex nodded. He saw Jeslyn’s phone on the floor and when he checked her phone, her last received call was from Ray who happened to be ki lled in an explosion. He connected the dots, that was how he guessed what

or a ho le in the eardrum as we call it goes away on its own after a few weeks. Probably two to three weeks. However, the patient has to come for checkups once a week to see if a problem is arising so we can get rid of it immediately.”

do while waiting for her ear to heal and also,

her nose too hard. Since she’s a singer, I’ll say she should heal completely before doing anything with her voice, because you singers sometimes get too carried away that you stretch your

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something else you can recommend for her to use? I believe it

She should take painkillers. That’s all… Ehm, I took her blood sample because our policy is to thoroughly test a patient before commencing treatment. There’s a virus in her blood and it

”

go. He was also a scientist and loves to experiment on new

was here all along and you didn’t ask me before drawing her blood, what if

flabbergasted at the three people in the ward.

doctor tried to speak but no words came out. He was stunned by