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.”

she thought about the advice her Nanny gave her. After a while, she shifted her gaze to the two guys in the front

the hospital?” she asked out

it was one of

slowly nodded, “Where’s the

“He’s being punished.”

for a while before Death asked, “Ma’am, why do you take the blame for everything and make people believe you did things you are

a gun at her, Nancy didn’t deny the accusation, nor fight back, making

not, no one will believe, so what’s the point?… But this

car drove steadily until it got to

she didn’t see that disrespectful action. The maid stood up, probably to explain

the garden in the next two hours!” She went away

all this while, which is why she still couldn’t react after

fine now, she might probably think

think that’s

there’s really

me go and make some cake.”

In the garden…

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 that was spread on the grass. From

her for a moment but immediately killed it before her conscience would be

another type of cake,” she tried to sound like she was happy, but the

sat beside her and asked, “Mom, what’s

felt a slight joy. This was the first time Brian noticed something was off about her. Her demeanor changed to the facade of a powerful woman, “Do I look

acting bitchy, so there was no need to care about

unhappiness, an action that went unnoticed

were giving each other, Rossa

this, but ma’am, your skin is getting paler and…”

scared?” Nancy asked

Rossa shook

a brow, “Everyone is scared of me. You’re the first

guard, and so was Brian, but she