Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 455

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.

as she stared at him in a daze, trying to convince herself

while she was there, staring at

away.

like it.” He placed the coffee beside

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

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 for another hit, Reuben grabbed her, threw her onto

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

the bed beneath him,

“Listen!!”

She was panting from

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

H

Like a maniac, Jeslyn burst into a

continued laughing until he left her alone and went to tend to the injury on his

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

happened, the hickeys on her skin, plus the wetness

mumbled and slowly sat up. But

from here and look for her husband. Plum cannot be dead! It’s

the closet. Opening it, there were clothes of all types, in her size,

thought off her mind. If she

She hurried into the bathroom, washed herself in less than five minutes, and ran back out. She picked out black trousers,

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