Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap

Chapter 1: Nothing to Regret

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.

choked on the lump in her throat as she spoke. “I have the money. Please save my mom and brother…” she

sum. Only after he was

Dolores grabbed the doctor’s arms and pleaded to him. “What

doctor sighed. “I’m sorry; it’s already too

like someone had taken a searing hot blade, stabbed her in the chest, and twisted it mercilessly.

her father cheated and abandoned his wife and daughter. He sent them to

make ends meet, and then a car accident had taken everything Dolores loved in an instant, leaving her

pain would only make them feel uncomfortable and perhaps make it difficult to breathe. For others, it might only make them feel the sky

However, upon discovering the death of her son, she had gone crazy. It was Dolores who hugged

I’m still here, please live

month in the hospital, Dolores’ mom, Jessica, often stared into space at the edge of her bed. Dolores knew she missed her son.

she was expelled from school, but Dolores was just glad that her mother was getting better,

*****

into the hospital. She reached the ward 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 divorce papers. After sending them here, he had never once visited them.

your child marry hers when

talking about Matthew Nelson, are you?”

the man, paying no mind to her wound Had he lost his mind? First, he dumped her

family is your best friend’s son. He was raised well and you know their family status. Marrying

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 would become a widow with a husband who was not yet dead.

hand. “I’ll do it,” she said, her appearance startling the two before her. “I’m okay with marrying him, on

daughter whom he hadn’t seen for

up. She had pale skin and she was extremely underweight. Her face seemed small, like she was being pulled into herself. She seemed as

After all, she was not that good-looking; it wasn’t too bad to let her marry a cripple who couldn’t have sex. Having thought of this, his guilt vanished and he believed

then out

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