Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap

The heat of his body pressed against her and the warmth from his breath tickled her ear.

“Are you scared?” he asked.

His hot breath lingered near her ear, making her shiver and scared to speak. Dolores Flores sensed that the man was holding himself back, his deep voice thick with desire. “It’s still not too late to change your mind.”

Dolores clenched her fists and shook her head nervously. “No, I want this.”

She was in the prime of her life. And yet…

The man leaned forward and his lips brushed the side of her neck. “Good.”

*****

Her night was long and excruciating.

When the man finally got up and went to the bathroom in the latter half of the night, Dolores dragged her exhausted body out of bed. She struggled into her clothes and walked out of the room without a second glance.

The middle-aged woman who introduced Dolores to the business sat on a sofa in the hotel lobby. Seeing Dolores exiting the elevator, the woman stood and handed Dolores a black plastic bag.

“Here’s your payment.”

Without more than a second’s hesitation, Dolores snatched the bag out of the woman’s hand. Giving a curt nod in thanks, Dolores hurried out of the hotel, having forgotten the pain she felt in the lower half of her body. She only wanted to reach the hospital as fast as possible.

The sky was just beginning to show the first rays of light, and the hospital hallway was quiet. Two stretchers were sitting outside of the operating room. Since the two hadn’t the money upfront for the operation, the bodies on the stretchers were still waiting outside, needing a miracle.

Dolores’s heart ached as she approached the two of them.

money. Please save my mom and brother…” she pleaded, handing

it and asked a nurse to count the sum. Only after he was certain all the money was there did he ask the nurses to wheel her mother in for

doctor’s arms and pleaded to him.

“I’m sorry; it’s already too late to save him…”

blade, stabbed

abandoned his wife and daughter. He sent them to a foreign strange country, not even caring that his wife was pregnant with their second

They’d been living paycheck to paycheck during that time and her brother’s condition made their life harder, though Dolores loved her brother too much to care. She and her mother worked odd jobs to make ends meet, and then a car accident had

hysteric. For some, the pain would only make them feel uncomfortable and perhaps make it difficult to breathe. For others, it might only make them feel the sky looked gloomy, yet they only had to accept the reality with

the death of her son, she had gone crazy.

still here, please live

hospital, Dolores’ mom, Jessica, often stared into space at the edge of her bed. Dolores knew she missed her son. If it wasn’t for Dolores, Jessica might have already followed Dolores’ brother to the afterworld.

school, but Dolores was just glad

*****

and was about to open the door when she heard a voice from inside—a voice she was familiar with. Although it had been eight years, she still remembered watching her father forcing her mother to sign the

You even promised to let your child marry hers when they grew up. It was you who made the promise, so logically it should be your

do you mean? Randolph, you’re not talking about Matthew Nelson, are you?” Jessica

lost a significant amount of weight and strength from staying in the hospital, struggled to get up. She wanted nothing more than to hit the man, paying no mind to her wound Had he lost his mind? First, he dumped her and her daughter in a terrible place, never paying them anymore mind, and now he was insisting her marry off her daughter to the son of a woman she hadn’t

their family

recently been bitten by a venomous snake while on a business trip abroad and was paralyzed. Because of his condition, he could no longer take care of himself, let alone live alone. The woman who married him

pushed the door open, her forgotten bag of food still in her hand. “I’ll do it,” she said, her appearance startling the two before her. “I’m okay with marrying

his daughter whom he hadn’t

face seemed small, like she was being pulled into herself. She seemed as if her body hadn’t been

too bad to let her marry a cripple who couldn’t have sex. Having thought of this, his

out