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.

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

cook was placed there by me, try to play smart

got into her car and

be loving but stopped showing her love or care, at the same time, for Alice not to find out

gave

and Bella left the hospital but met the gunmen at the parking lot. Mr. Wales

lied.

twins. Return to the ward and bring the Male child.” They told him. Confused, Mr. Wales went back to the hospital and was

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

she had a

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

the Male child to those gunmen, they shot him in his chest, took him far away

passerby was quick to pass through the scene and helped him to the

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

a female child with his wife. She was named

kill Jeslyn a few more times but the child had a long life to live, which was why, when Emilee brought the idea of injecting Jeslyn with ATOM, he didn’t think

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

seat and grabbed her purse. She was

a quick death!” she said in an inaudible voice, almost like a whisper.

me?!” Mr. Wales asked in a panic.

“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 was coming back for

he knew that the one coming for his head tonight wasn’t Jeslyn,