Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

187 How’s the baby?

Just before her eyes lost their shine, she screamed.

Her scream startled Jeslyn and co. Seeing they were all looking at her with a frown on Jeslyn’s face, Vera soon realized she was only imagining things. She had just walked into the kitchen and hadn’t even said anything. 2

“Why are you sweating so much after screaming? Is there a killer hiding somewhere in the kitchen?” Jeslyn darted her eyes around the kitchen in jest.

“N-no, I came to get some water and almost slipped.” She stuttered and whipped her face.

“You should have sent the maids. Do be careful, I spilled some oil around that area and-”

“Ahhh!” Vera jolted and fell on her butt. 1

“Ouch!…” Jeslyn made a pained expression. “That’s a bad fall. Does it hurt? Can you stand?… Riya, help her up, hurry… her baby!”

Maya hurried over and helped Vera to her feet.

“How is the baby? Hope it’s fine?” Jeslyn asked with feigned concern.

“Thank you,” Vera answered through gritted teeth.

“Good to know… but how did you fall?” Jeslyn asked, holding back laughter. 2

Vera almost exploded but suppressed it with a deep breath. She opened the fridge, took a bottle of water, and left.

Not like she really came for water though.

laughed so hard that her eyes teared up. “Stupid,” she said

May smiled helplessly. “That was dangerous.

her a miscarriage. Did I do wrong?” Jeslyn asked with a straight face.

Jeslyn’s straight face. How could she be so shameless? There was no oil on the floor… In fact, Chef May was just about to bring out the oil from the cabinet, so where did ‘oil on

you were not wrong!”

“Better.”

try to mock her for not being Valen’s mother or giving Maverick a

the bed feeling a little unwell. Her stomach was cramping due to the heavy fall but she was sure it wasn’t going to be a miscarriage, however, she was going to

Maverick wouldn’t make it look genuine. She placed the

pl- please, come check me quickly, I think I’m going to have a miscarriage!”

a moment before Matt responded affirmatively; “where

“In my room.”

“OK.”

and met her thrashing in

her.

instinct kicked in and he immediately increased

her with the equipment he brought, he frowned when he

full body check.” He

and shook her head. “No please, I don’t want to be checked. It was just a fall, I’m fine.”

deal to be heartless with

to stop me

fine, thank

works for me too,

blew out air. That was close. If she had allowed him to take her for a full body check-up and then carry out a DNA test on her baby, what would she do

those she was working for would have come

baby gets out now, it would mean that she’ll be killed

she knew she was already in the stomach of a sperm whale, she would have known that her death was already certified.