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,

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

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 same time, for Alice not to

gave

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

lied.

hospital and was shocked to find out that a woman who looked exactly like his wife had also

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

him she had a twin sister, so Mr.

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 took the male child

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

was quick to pass through the scene and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet

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

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

to live, which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn with

into a fit of laughter

She was about to

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

promised me?!” Mr. Wales

“Hahahah…”

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

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