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 a boy, hand him to me but

be around you 24/7. Even your cook was placed there

that, she got into her

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

gave

Bella left the hospital but met the gunmen at the parking lot. Mr. Wales sent Bella away and hurried to

lied.

to the ward 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

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 the same

him she had a twin

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

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,

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

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

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

to 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

Wale’s confession. She broke into a fit of laughter before

got up from her seat and grabbed her purse. She was about to

none, shall I grant a quick death!” she said in an inaudible voice, almost

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

“Hahahah…”

room, her sardonic laughter still echoed in Mr. Wales’s mind. He didn’t need her to say the words,

that the one coming for his head tonight