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.

on a useless man like you. That child 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 a boy, hand him to me but if it’s

you 24/7. Even your cook was placed there by me, try to play smart with me and you’ll be

got into her car and

Wales was devastated. He hid his knowledge from Alice and changed his behavior towards her. He used to be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at the same time, for Alice not to find

gave

was 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

lied.

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

two women were wearing the same hospital

had a

he wasn’t very smart, Mr. Wales concluded that this woman who gave birth to twins was Alice, his wife! So, Mr. Wales killed the female child and

the Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from the hospital, and dumped him

to pass through the scene and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his

though he stayed in the hospital for a few weeks, he didn’t

see a female child with his wife. She was

to live, which was why, when Emilee brought

into a fit of laughter before

wicked soul, Mr. Wales!” She got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to leave when she turned and promised with a villainous smile

shall I grant a quick death!” she said

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

“Hahahah…”

left the visitor’s 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

for his