Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

185 Rejected

“M-mummy!” He called out with sparkling eyes.

Jeslyn who was standing by the door smiled with tears streaming down her face and hurried into the room to hug Valen.

“Child, mummy has missed you. You almost scared me to death”

Valen said nothing and just hugged her even though the injection was pricking his wrist. He missed her a lot and he felt the only way to get enough of her was to engrave himself on her.

Vera watched the two with envy and hatred. She was supposed to be the one getting the hugs and calling him her child. Valen didn’t even look at her twice even though she was supposed to be his ‘mother’.

Not liking what she was seeing, she coughed into her fist to break them apart but nobody cared about her.

She coughed again, a little louder than the first time but still, nobody responded. Annoyed, she finally spoke. “Jeslyn, he’s on needles. It must be hurting him. Also, he just woke up and needs some rest and fresh air.”

Jeslyn broke the hug and grabbed Valen’s left hand to check the needle on his wrist to see if she accidentally hurt him but she couldn’t see anything because a brown tape was used to secure the needle to his wrist.

Jeslyn said to Vera with a

as a

to look at Valen and smiled. “Child, you must be famished. Let mommy go prepare you something delicious.” She

him, he happily agreed with a nod and a

smile disappeared in an instant and he turned sharply to look at

“It’s

to think

mother. It’s either his father made a mistake or

6 years old, no, almost 7 years old! Aren’t words too heavy for him

sorry. I didn’t mean to cause you agony. I

lay down on

him because there were CCTV cameras in the room and the emergency button wasn’t far from his

at the shut door for a while with lots of thoughts running through his mind before turning his gaze back to the TV. His great-grandfather’s face was no longer on the screen, so he changed the channel to some anime. Too bad he didn’t hear what the

cartoons that hardly die when killed, he knew that Jeslyn likes to see him

towards the sitting, crying. On her way, she spotted Rex and Maverick walking towards

cries increased. She was silently crying before but suddenly

shoulder at Maverick. “Did you raise your hand on a woman?”

gave him a death

been together since, so when did he beat a woman who was