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.

in your wife’s womb, nurture it well and make sure it’s healthy. I’ll be back 9 months from now. When she gives birth to

Even your cook was placed there by me, try to play smart with me

she got into her

used to be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at the same time,

gave

he and Bella left the hospital but met the gunmen at the parking lot. Mr. Wales

lied.

birth to twins. Return to the ward and bring the Male child.” They told him. Confused, Mr. Wales went back to the hospital and was shocked to find out that a woman who looked exactly like his wife had also given birth and was sleeping

and alarmed, 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, the same hairstyles, and the same peaceful expressions

him she had a twin sister, so Mr. Wales had no

Mr. Wales concluded that this woman who gave birth to twins was Alice, his

he sent the Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from

helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed

he didn’t allow Bella to tell

see a female child with

had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn with ATOM, he didn’t think

Wale’s confession. She broke into a fit of laughter before tears slipped down her eyes.

her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about

for death but none, shall I grant a quick death!” she said in an inaudible

promised me?!” Mr. Wales

“Hahahah…”

room, her sardonic laughter still echoed in Mr. Wales’s mind. He didn’t need her to say the words, but from her reaction to the story, Mr. Wales believed that Jeslyn

his head tonight wasn’t Jeslyn, but a more