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.

a daze, trying to convince herself that the hickeys on her body

started walking towards the bed, while she was there, staring at him without moving her

away.

placed the coffee beside

are you wrapped so tightly? Are you shy?

she lurched forward, grabbed the mug and

to dodge. But as if it was within Jeslyn’s calculation, she moved again but this time, Reuben wasn’t expecting it. He couldn’t move out of the way in time

“Bang!”

from the hit he got from the mug. Seeing she was going

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

bed beneath him, Reuben yelled.

“Listen!!”

him. She was panting from the resistance she

is dead! I’m your husband now, with the permission

H

Jeslyn burst into a fit of

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 and blurred his

he shut the door, Jeslyn’s laugh stopped and tears ran down her eyes. She refused to believe anything he said. Her husband is alive and she was not reped.

herself that was what truly happened, the hickeys on her skin, plus the

sorry?” she mumbled and slowly sat up. But then, realization

She must escape from here

bed and hurried to the closet. Opening it, there were clothes of all types, in her size, hung in

room and stopped at the door. Jeslyn shook the thought off her mind. If she must escape, going

smile crept onto her lips. She hurried into the bathroom, washed herself in less than five minutes, and ran back out.