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,

around you 24/7. Even your cook was placed there by me, try to play smart with me and you’ll be

she got into her car

to be loving but stopped showing her

gave

he and Bella left the hospital but

lied.

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 his wife had also given birth and was

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

was never a time Alice told him she had a twin sister, so Mr. Wales had no

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 to the

those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away from the hospital,

and helped him to the nearest hospital. The bullet grazed his heart but he managed to survive the surgery.

hospital for a few weeks, he didn’t allow

was flabbergasted to see a female child

which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn with ATOM, he didn’t think twice but to agree. 1

gasped in astonishment after hearing Mr. Wale’s confession. She broke into a

soul, Mr. Wales!” She got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to leave when she turned and promised with

shall I grant a quick

about what you promised me?!” Mr. Wales

“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

only he knew that the one coming for his