Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

427 How it all started (3)

“After he was banished, unlike his family and friends who made him believe that your grandmother would leave him, she instead proved them wrong by sticking with your grandfather through thick and thin. Your grandaunt was not pleased that she couldn’t break the two apart, so she started to make things difficult for them until they gave birth to your mother and her sister. 1

“To hurt your grandparents, your grandaunt stole the children from the cradle and initiated them into the cult. After a month, she returned the children, but your grandmother had already developed an illness from the ordeal. Your grandmother was too scared to remain in Country M, so they went to Country A, Rose city to hide away from their enemy, but the children had already been bewitched.

“When they turned five, the dark magic that your grandaunt used on them started to manifest and the kids got sick to the point of near death. Nothing could heal them and the only thing they wanted was

to be sent to the cult

“Your grandmother didn’t want to do that, but your grandfather couldn’t watch her and the kids suffered so much, so he sent the kids to the cult. When they became teenagers, the dark magic started to wear off and your mothers became a handful in the cult–breaking rules, and going wild.

“Your grandaunt didn’t want to kill your mothers because she needed something to control your grandparents emotions with, so she allowed them to reunite with their parents but with a condition that they must spend half a month with their parents and half a month in the cult, until your mothers drifted out of her control.

“The black magic no longer worked, so she used Alex, who was the most defiant, against Alice and Diana, their best friend. For Alice and your grandparents to be free from your grandaunt’s manipulation, Alex convinced everyone that she was evil, so she later got banished by your grandfather, hastening your grandmother’s death.

grandaunt. She doesn’t want your family to slip off her fingers, which is

womb.

know that the cult is a fraud, the heir according to the rules they set, was not supposed

haven’t

her head. True, none of them had approached her until

last button in your life before they came to you. That would have happened when you faced trials in your life, but unfortunately, Alex didn’t give them a

protecting you. And when you came out of jail, you were under

husband because he’s a very stubborn man also, he had

might have refused to be one of the Dark Age, it didn’t mean that they weren’t protecting him because he

the Dark Age different? Jeslyn

this day, I have no idea where their base is. The reason they valued your husband above all, was not because of his

your father–in–law died. So when they saw the potential in your husband to be the next technology expert, they tried

your son came into the picture, I noticed that they changed how they treated your husband. And that is because they are observing your son

Dark Age to think that his son was a rotten child who can’t achieve much in life just

along and unknowingly ruined everything for him, causing him to

her lips and tightened her hold on the coat. The air suddenly feels chilly

Xu family after they injected his son with ATOM?” she asked and Jeslyn

what they did, the organization thought the child wouldn’t be able to survive, while