Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

304 Why he hated his daughter (2)

You can’t look after your wife, can’t you?” her voice came again with a tinge of anger in it.

“I-” before Mr. Wales could speak another word, he felt a hard object descend on his back.

“Ahh!” he screamed in pain.

His instinct told him he was hit with the butt of a gun and he wasn’t wrong at all.

“You don’t speak unless my Master permits you!” the same guard yelled and then kicked Mr. Wales in the side of his stomach.

Mr. Wales yelped in pain but didn’t dare to scream out loud.

With her heels taken off his fingers, Mr. Wales was able to feel relief for a while.

“You married Alice, yet she got pregnant for my husband. I have every right to believe that you are in on her betrayal, and for that, you’ll have to die“. The voice came again, this time, languid and bored. 5

Mr. Wales wanted to desperately plead for his life, or better still, tell the unknown lady he wasn’t aware of his wife’s betrayal but the fear of getting his spinal cord broken with the butt of a gun made him stay mute.

He was shaking all over and even peeing on himself from how scared he was.

it’s healthy. I’ll be back 9 months from now. When she gives birth to a boy, hand him to me but

you 24/7. Even your cook was placed there by me, try to play smart

she got into her car and

towards her. He used to be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at the same time, for Alice not to find

gave

a girl, he paid the doctors to sedate Alice and allowed Bella to kill the child. However, after killing the child, he and Bella left the hospital but met the gunmen at the parking lot. Mr. Wales sent Bella away and hurried to report his job to the gunmen but they rather told him that he

lied.

hospital and was shocked to find out that a woman who looked exactly like

he couldn’t differentiate who was his wife and who wasn’t among the two look–alikes. The two women were wearing the same hospital gowns,

him she had a twin sister, so Mr. Wales

was Alice, his wife! So, Mr. Wales killed the female child and took the

had no idea because after he sent the Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from the hospital, and dumped him along the road, thinking

passerby was quick to pass through the scene and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his heart but he managed

he didn’t allow Bella to tell Alice what happened to him.

to see a female child

was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn with ATOM, he didn’t think

She broke into

up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to leave when she turned and promised

crush your daughters. They’ll beg for death but none, shall I grant a quick death!” she said in an inaudible voice,

what about what you promised me?!” Mr. Wales asked in

“Hahahah…”

need her to say the words, but from her reaction to the story, Mr. Wales believed that Jeslyn

knew that the one coming for his head tonight wasn’t Jeslyn, but a