Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

456 No route to escape

Jeslyn stopped to look back, wondering why he wasn’t chasing her. By now, he must have known she wasn’t in her room. At that moment, she felt something was wrong. Her instinct told her to go back to the house but she didn’t want to return, so she ignored her instinct and continued heading to the

mountains.

She could see them right in front of her. In less than ten minutes she would be at the foot of the mountains, she thought.

True to her thoughts, less than ten minutes later, Jeslyn was standing at the foot of the mountain. It wasn’t a very tall one and she could climb it because there were stairs carved on it.

Jeslyn’s stomach was hurting and she had no idea why. At first, she thought it must have been because she was hungry but hunger doesn’t cause biting pains, right?

Instinctively, she placed her left hand on the lower part of her stomach where the pain was. The moment that her hand came in contact with her stomach, her ring glowed blue and the pain slowly turned dull and vanished.

Jeslyn smiled faintly. She was energized again, so she continued climbing.

Finally at the top of the mountain, what greeted Jeslyn was a landscape filled with snow and trees as far as the eyes could see.

She gasped at the sight. Where is this place? She thought.

the snowland. What if there are dangerous animals behind these trees? She certainly cannot

Yes, weapon!

her right hand, the shard of glass she took earlier was still with her. A thought crossed

she was thinking, Jeslyn heard the howling of beasts in the snowland. Before she could listen to see what kind of animal they were, she saw white wolves tearing through the snow as they made their way

down and started running back to the glass house. Living with her enemy is

thought as she ran with all her might, while the wolves stood on top of

they watched a supposed prey run further away from them.

as she continued running. They said running without looking back gives you more strength and focus, so

looked back and saw that nothing was chasing her anymore. She stopped running and bent over with her hands on her knees, taking deep breaths to calm her

done running?”

she

of the autumn tree along the road, was Reuben. He jumped down

lady ignored him and proceeded to stand on her own. If anything, she would be calm until an opportunity comes for

without giving her a chance to react, he picked her on his shoulder and started marching back to the glass house.

me down! Get your filthy hands off me…!!”

his back, the guy wouldn’t put her down until they got to

gently put her on a couch and squatted in front of her, Ignoring the rage on her face, he said; “You can’t run away from

clavicle but he was fast enough to stop her. He grabbed her wrist and completed his words, “… kill

of her hold, but made sure to not hurt her hand, then threw it to the floor and