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.

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,

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

that, she got into her

to be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at

gave

Bella to kill the child. However, after killing the child, he and Bella left the hospital but met

lied.

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

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 on their faces.

a time Alice told him she had a twin sister, so Mr.

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

they shot him in his chest, took him

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

a few weeks, he didn’t allow Bella to tell Alice

returned home, Mr. Wales was flabbergasted to see a female child

the child had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn

after hearing Mr. Wale’s confession. She broke into a

got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about

shall I grant a quick death!” she

promised me?!” Mr.

“Hahahah…”

say the words, but from her reaction to the story, Mr.

his head tonight wasn’t Jeslyn, but a more scary being.