Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

210 Setting the table for mummy

Collective gasps escaped their lips and they widened their eyes in disbelief. A moment later, Toria collected herself and thought. ‘It must be Rex’s card! Not only her. Her friends also believed it was Rex’s card, so their jumpy hearts calmed a little. 1

Toria paid for her things and left with her friends who wouldn’t stop bugging her.

“Toria, it’s high time you set things on another level with Young Master Rex! That lady is doing way more than any lady has done. Imagine, Rex gave her his unlimited black card! What the f*ck does that mean?!” One of them said when they got into the car.

“Toria, I agree. Don’t be a pushover and silently watch Rex throw your goodwill away. I mean, you are kind and have been patient with him even though he has broken your heart times without number.” She sighed. “Stop behaving like a good wife and speak up!” The other lady added.

Toria massaged her temple. “You two,” she hesitated, then sighed and continued. “Since when have you started getting jealous over other people’s things?” She turned to look at them. “So what if she has Rex’s black card? Haven’t I been given more than enough?” She signed again and turned her face to look outside the window. A few moments later, she continued with her eyes still looking outside. “Count your blessings and not what you can’t control.”

Toria loves Rex so much that she was ready to hide her feelings for him for years. The day she started to love him was the day she had a traumatizing breakup with her ex–boyfriend and went to a bar.

was drinking, someone approached her and wanted her for the night. She bluntly refused but it didn’t sit well with the person, so he called his

relatives and was left with just a little to last her for a few days. She had already gone for auditions at different agencies before her parents passed away,

the bar and was really drunk. The bar men were lost on what to do, so when Rex came down from the floor he was on and saw her again, he took her to a hotel and booked a room for her. In her drunken state, she

alone after that, he approached her a few times and they started dating. She had thought he wanted to ask for her body like he usually did to girls he fancies. (They thought he sleeps with girls) but instead, he gave her the fame and the riches she needed. They only dated for a month and some days before he stopped coming. That was three years

like they were dating for a month and 5 days before they became strangers. When she called him, he asked her to stop calling him but didn’t withdraw the privilege of presenting herself as his

day, Toria couldn’t wrap her head around why he was still being kind to her when

three years

dating anymore, her best friends refuse to believe it. They kept insisting that she was still in a relationship with Rex, provided he hadn’t said

because she didn’t tell them the whole thing that transpired between her

their minds.

entered the house to see Valen by the entrance, probably

turned his face away and pressed the button on his wheelchair, and started to move to the dining room.

you mad at me, honey?” Jeslyn asked as she

the moving wheelchair. She thought he would stop it but instead, he turned to the side,

Valen, mummy is sorry for coming late. I know I promised you three hours.

that, Valen’s face turned unsightly. He was mad at her for breaking her promise and instead of apologizing, she was telling