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.

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 a girl, kill

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

that, she got into her

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

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

lied.

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

and who wasn’t among the two look–alikes. The two women were wearing the same

time Alice told him she had a twin sister, so Mr. Wales had no idea.

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

those gunmen, they shot him in his chest,

the nearest hospital. The

for a few weeks, he didn’t allow Bella to

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

life to live, which was

into a fit of laughter before tears slipped down her

Mr. Wales!” She got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was

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

me?!” Mr.

“Hahahah…”

after Jeslyn 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

only he knew that the one coming for his head