Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

455 Escape from the middle of nowhere

Jeslyn’s eyelids fluttered and she slowly opened her eyes. From her blurry vision, she could see she was in a bedroom. She sat up and rested her back on the headboard. With her little movement, the duvet slid off her chest, revealing her beautiful pale skin.

Her eyes shot wide and she immediately pulled off the duvet. What greeted her was her nakedness!

At first, she didn’t make sense of what was happening until she saw her reflection in the dressing mirror adjacent to her bed.

“Ahh!!”

Her scream travelled out of the house, sending the birds perching on the trees around the house into a frenzy.

A smile crept onto Reuben’s lips when he heard the cry. “She’s finally awake.” He got up and left for her room.

Jeslyn was dazedly looking at her naked body in the mirror when she heard a faint knock at the door. She snapped back to reality and hurriedly pulled the cover around herself, waiting to see who would

come in.

The door cracked open, revealing a smiling Reuben with a tray of piping hot coffee.

“You’re finally awake after three days. You scared me, love,” he smiled.

“Y–you?! What are you-” At that moment, the incident at the restroom flooded her mind.

in a daze, trying to

while she was there, staring

away.

it.” He placed the coffee beside the lampstand and sat on the edge of the bed.

why are you wrapped so tightly? Are you shy? But you

that moment, Jeslyn’s hand shook and her heart turned cold. Without thinking, she lurched forward, grabbed the mug and threw the piping hot coffee at his face.

quick to dodge. But as if it was within Jeslyn’s calculation, she moved again but this time,

“Bang!”

his temple from the hit he got from the mug. Seeing she was going for

to cave in. She had lost her mind at the idea that another man who wasn’t her husband,

she thrashed on the bed

“Listen!!”

him. She was panting from the resistance she put up.

down, he continued, “Maverick is dead! I’m your husband now, with

H

Like a maniac, Jeslyn burst into a fit of

you like the scum you are! Hahahaha!” She continued laughing until he left her alone and went to tend to the injury on his temple. The blood had rushed into his eye

laugh stopped and tears ran down her eyes. She refused to believe anything he said. Her husband is alive and she was not

was what truly happened, the hickeys on her skin, plus the wetness between her legs proved

she mumbled and slowly sat up. But then, realization hit her,

a weakling! She must escape from here and look for her husband. Plum cannot be dead!

to the closet. Opening it, there

off her

the bathroom, washed herself in less than five minutes, and ran back out.