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

people will be around you 24/7. Even your cook was placed there by me,

she got into her car and

changed his behavior towards her. He used to be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at the same

gave

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

lied.

was shocked to find out that a woman who looked

the two look–alikes. The two women were wearing the same hospital

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

gave birth to twins was Alice, his wife! So, Mr. Wales killed the female child and took the male

Mr. Wales had no idea because after he sent the Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from

the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his heart but he

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

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

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

in astonishment after hearing Mr. Wale’s confession. She broke into a fit of laughter before tears slipped down

got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to leave when she turned

They’ll beg for death but none, shall I grant a quick death!” she

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

“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

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