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.

on a useless man like 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.

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

into her car and

and changed his behavior towards her. He used to be loving but stopped showing her

gave

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

lied.

went back to the hospital and was shocked to find out that a woman who looked exactly like his wife had also given birth

wasn’t among the two look–alikes. The two women were wearing the same hospital gowns,

had a twin sister,

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

the female child didn’t die. 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 hospital, and dumped him along the road, thinking he was

passerby was quick to pass through the scene and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his heart but he managed

a few weeks, he didn’t allow Bella to tell Alice what happened to him.

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

but the child had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting

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

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

I grant a quick death!” she said in an

me?!” Mr. Wales asked in a

“Hahahah…”

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

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