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.

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

was placed there by me, try to play smart with me

got into her car and they all

Wales 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 find out about Bella, he started to pretend he cared

gave

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

lied.

child.” They told him. Confused, Mr. Wales went back to the hospital and was shocked to find out that a woman who looked exactly

alarmed, he couldn’t differentiate who 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

him she had a twin

was Alice, his wife! So,

Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from the hospital, and dumped him along the road, thinking he

scene and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his

he didn’t allow Bella to tell Alice what happened

Wales was flabbergasted to see a female child with his

a few more times but the child had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee

confession. She broke into a fit of laughter before tears slipped down her

her purse. She was about to leave when she turned and promised with a villainous smile on

shall I grant a quick death!” she said

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

“Hahahah…”

say the words, but from her reaction to the

his head tonight wasn’t Jeslyn, but a