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.

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

cook was placed there by me,

got into her car and they all left.

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

gave

child, he and Bella left the hospital

lied.

the hospital and was

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

had a

Mr. Wales concluded that this woman who gave birth to twins was Alice, his wife! So, Mr. Wales killed the female child and

to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took

him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his heart but he managed to

he stayed in the hospital for a few weeks, he didn’t allow Bella to tell Alice

returned home, Mr. Wales was flabbergasted to see a female child with his wife. She

the child had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee

broke into a fit of laughter before tears slipped down

soul, Mr. Wales!” She got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to

a quick death!”

what you promised me?!” Mr. Wales asked

“Hahahah…”

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 was coming back for his head.

coming for his head tonight