Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

426 How it all started (2)

“The Maid went out on a mission to start recruiting disciples and members. The woman taught some Witchcraft, and others without gifts became members.

“When the cult started thriving, the Maid realized that she was tricked into forming an evil cult, but it was too late to turn back the hands of time, so the Maid was turned into a butterfly that was forced to live inside Zucchini’s statue.”

“Wow!” Jeslyn was short of words. This feels like…

“Yeah. It was indeed a huge conspiracy by the Witch to create a world for herself and her kind… Those members were made to believe they were getting groomed to fight men who betrayed them. Unbeknownst to them, they were being raised as the Witch’s disciples.

“Meanwhile, Zucchini’s ex–fiance was still looking for the Witch but had no idea where she had disappeared to. His reason for wanting to kill her was because the woman was prophesied to be his downfall.

“The King of the land rewarded the hidden Magician with his daughter for his excellent service of getting rid of Witches from the Kingdom. But unfortunately, the King had no idea he had let a serpent into his home.

“The King had only one Princess and numerous Princes. The Magician knew that he wouldn’t be able to get the throne if he didn’t do something, so he killed the whole family, claiming the last Witch did.

no matter what. But before that, the Magician, being the Princess‘ husband, was crowned the King.

kingdom was flourishing, the Witches were also growing like mushrooms until they conquered some lands for themselves.

decades and killed themselves. Before the witch died, she laid a curse that her disciples and the Magician’s offspring and supporters

remaining witches but some still got away and continued to carry

remaining witches who were in hiding couldn’t initiate women anymore, so the senior Witch brought the idea of bewitching me.

the disciples became numerous

the Doyenne of that time introduced the idea of initiating new members from the day they were born. It was a good idea until some girls were unappealing to men because they

the child as they grow, the higher their position, so mothers made

became a competition that some members started stealing each other’s inen or allowing one man to procreate with many of them, brewing stepsisters all over the cult… by the way, that was how your grandmother and the present Doyenne of the Half–heart became siblings.”

Jeslyn exclaimed

also forced your great–grandmother to reciprocate the love. However, because he was the most handsome man then, other women from the cult also wanted him, but the man

to mistreat their

though he could effortlessly avoid temptation, he couldn’t throw off the one

By the time

she was pregnant some months later but couldn’t run away with the pregnancy like she thought. After she gave birth to your grandmother, she attempted to steal the child but failed a couple

great–grandmother and caused the cult to kill her for falling in love and failing to bring back