Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

418 Looking beyond their facade

“You just woke up?” the butler asked with a frown.

Rossa nodded and said in a low yet cute voice, “Yes, Grandpa.“

The man wanted to rage, but seeing how cute she was, he held back his tongue; “I’m not your grandpa,” he glared at her.

“Ok, I’ll call you grandpa butler, how does that sound?” she beamed.

The old man wanted to chastise her again for acting like his spoiled granddaughter but couldn’t bring himself to, so he sighed and pointed towards the kitchen, “Make sure your dishes are ready in one hour thirty minutes.”

“Yes, sir!” she giggled and ran off.

Other servants were fuming and calling her ugly names in their minds, but there was nothing they could do right now, so they had to endure until they got a chance.

Rossa finished cooking at exactly one hour–thirty minutes, but after serving the dishes, Brian came around and told her Nancy wasn’t home.

“My mom isn’t here, so have a seat.”

“I didn’t make her portion anyway. Hope she didn’t travel?” Rossa sat on one of the chairs with a scowling face.

“I’m not sure. By the way, how’s your plan coming around?” he asked softly.

“I told you we can’t talk about such things. Aren’t there CCTV cameras all around here?” she almost glared at him but controlled herself.

“Ah, true, I’m sorry about that…” The atmosphere became awkward.

“I haven’t seen your father since I was employed, where did he go?”

Brian shook his head, “Not sure.”

was heading home. Looking out the car window in silence, she thought about the advice her Nanny gave her. After a while, she shifted her gaze to the

who burnt down the hospital?” she asked out of the

ma’am, it was one of Sir’s men.”

slowly nodded, “Where’s the

“He’s being punished.”

long silence filled the car for a while before Death asked, “Ma’am, why do you take the blame for everything and make people believe

accused her of setting fire to the hospital and pointed a gun at her,

will believe, so what’s the point?… But this time, I hope Jeslyn is intelligent

The car drove steadily until

‘a maid‘ sitting at the dining table, talking with her son. She pretended like she didn’t see that disrespectful action. The maid stood up, probably to explain what didn’t need explanation, but before she could speak, Nancy raised

meet me in the garden in the next two hours!” She went away after

her breath hitched in her throat all this while,

fine now, she might probably think we

think that’s a great

there’s really nothing

to the garden empty–handed, let me go and make some cake.” Rossa left the dining room after

In the garden…

permeated the place, selling tranquility and serenity that people like Nancy couldn’t buy, no matter the money they had. She was wearing a white gown and was sitting on a plain white cloth

conscience would be awoken. She walked

of cake,” she tried to sound like she was happy, but the sadness around Nancy

beside her and asked, “Mom, what’s

the first time Brian noticed something was off about her. Her

He replied and turned away. She was still acting bitchy, so there was no need to care

curled down in slight unhappiness, an

giving each other, Rossa

I’m not in the right position to say this, but ma’am, your skin is getting paler and…” she lowered

Nancy asked in

shook her

raised a brow, “Everyone is scared of me. You’re the first to say this to my

caught off guard, and so was Brian, but she immediately beamed,