Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

392 Toxic family

Today was the third day Brian returned home feeling relaxed, calm, and happy. The servants knew he must have encountered something interesting because he had never been this content for a long while. 1

The young man entered the house and blessed all the workers with a smile. The servants were scared to get accustomed to their young master’s new behavior for fear that he might just be having mood swings.

Brian’s new behavior didn’t go unnoticed by his parents. Mr. Hwang was quite excited about his son’s happiness but not his wife, Nancy.

She felt that Brian had started communicating with Piper behind her back, and so she sent out people to monitor his every move… her belief wasn’t unfounded. Three days ago, she received a phone call from the communication department stating that someone had made a call out of the city with a burner phone that couldn’t be traced.

She had been keeping watch to know who that person was but failed, so now that her son was unnecessarily happy, it has to be connected, She thought.

Sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, Mr. Hwang’s hardened gaze was on his wife after she made a statement that didn’t go down well with him.

“Ok,” unlike before, Brian didn’t argue or refuse. His response not only shocked his mother but also left Mr. Hwang feeling uncomfortable.

“Are you

sure about that?” he asked his son.

“I’m cool with it,” Brian declared.

“Don’t do something you’ll regret, son.” The father was skeptical. He knows his son and understands

him well.

“I’d be ok, Dad, I got this,” he smiled faintly at his dad and continued eating.

Madam Nancy cleared her throat and waved the servants away. “I don’t know what you’ve been up to lately, but it better not be a scheme to humiliate your bride and her family!” she warned.

chuckled and answered sarcastically. “You’re the almighty, the most feared. Who am

sent your retirement letter to your

unrepentant woman didn’t feel

spoon froze in mid–air before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of

you going? You

feel like a human and not some means for business deals and a puppet to be controlled,” He stopped by his father’s seat and hugged his neck before he left the house

his spirit was obviously down.

must be very excited,” the father said after Brian left.

fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum when I broke the retirement news to him. So why

her grilled turkey

slapped the table and roared,

gaze from

“You are losing it.

“You-”

walked to stand behind him and leaned forward until her lips were close to his ear. “You know I can stop this marriage from happening. I can quell interfering in our son’s life. All you

whispered.

You’ll forever be rusty down there without me to make you feel like a woman, Nancy

and she moved away.

you. Whatever brought about Brian’s existence was a mistake you know too well… Nancy, you thought only my life

suddenly taste more delicious after breaking her with

so tight that she could feel her nails hurting her palm. “I’ll make you beg to have me but then, it will be too late.” She turned and stormed

looked in the direction she left. He picked up his phone and

her?” he asked.

sir, she has entered the city,” came the fearful voice of the other person.

immediately bounced up from his seat. “Where is she?!”

on it. She is hiding

before my wife’s people do… be discreet.”

“Yes, sir!”

the dining room after that.

bedroom, the woman who didn’t change much from how she was 26 years ago when she approached Christine’s