THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 1 – 20
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 5 & 6
On getting to the back of the crowd, someone cried out.
“Isn’t that Jeslyn? What is she doing here?”
At those words, the reporters rushed to her and pointed their cameras at her while others shoved their mics into her face.
“Miss Jeslyn, tell us. Is it true you killed your grandfather?”
“Miss Jeslyn, why did you kill your grandfather?”
“Miss Jeslyn, what can you say for yourself?”
“Miss Jeslyn, how could you cheat on your poor fiance and abandon him at the altar?”
“Miss Jeslyn, don’t you think you are too heartless to remain a celebrity?”
“Miss Jeslyn, say something. The people wants to know.
“Miss Jeslyn….”
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Jeslyn grabbed her messy hair tightly as she felt a throbbing pain in her head. Just when she thought the reporters would be the death of her, a loud sound rang in her ear accompanied by a stinging pain on her right cheek.
She turned her gaze to see who it was and came face to face with her sister’s teary eyes mixed with rage.
“You monster! I’ll kill you!” Christine yelled and was about to attack Jeslyn’s face with her long nails when Ray rushed forward and grabbed her by the waist, preventing her from going physical.
“C–Christine?” Jeslyn called as she held her stinging cheek.
“Don’t call me, you devil! What did grandfather do to you? Grandfather loved you so much and saw only you as his granddaughter, yet you paid him back with this? You killed him! What kind of heart do you have? You devil!!”
She flung her hands in the air in an attempt to fight Jeslyn but Ray wouldn’t let her go further.
“Christine, I didn’t do anything, I–”
“When has a thief ever agreed that they stole anything? Even when they are caught red-handed, they would say they were just about to keep the stolen goods in its right place.”
Hearing that voice, Jeslyn shifted her gaze to Ray’s older sister who just spoke, and returned her gaze to her sister. It doesn’t matter if the world doesn’t believe her, but her sister has to.
“I didn’t do anything. Grandfather was poisoned and he–”
“Stop lying! Grandfather was healthy. He was pushed and hit his head on the coffee table. Maya and the guards witnessed it all!”
“W–what are you saying?” Jeslyn looked lost and immensely confused.
“Maya and the guards gave their testimony to the police, which included video clips of how you and grandfather argued over what you did to brother Ray.
Then you disagreed with grandfather and he slapped you.
You got upset and started to yell at him. Realizing his mistake, he tried to pull you for a hug like he always did and you pushed him, you pushed him!” Christine yelled.
By now, all the guests were gathered and most of them were already jeering at her and pointing fingers, while the others were loudly cursing her and calling her names.
“Christine, that’s not true, that’s a lie!” She yelled as she held her head to block off all the noises in her mind.
“Shove the evidence in her face. She will never cry until she sees the coffin.” Someone said from the crowd.
Ray’s older sister pulled out her phone. She scrolled through it and brought out the evidence. She started playing the video before literally shoving the phone into Jeslyn’s face.
Jeslyn subconsciously rescued the phone from falling while coincidentally seeing the footage.
What drew her attention was her old man. Teardrops slowly fell from her eyes and dropped on the screen.
All that was being said or scripted in the video didn’t gets to her. She wasn’t even hearing any of it as all her attention was focused on her old man.
She brushed the phone with her fingers, outlining his figure and suddenly she jolted when the lady on the screen that looked like her pushed the old man who fell back and hit his head on the side of the coffee table.
“Grandfather!” She screamed, at the same time, dropping the phone to the floor.
“Officers, arrest her!” Christine said to the policemen that just walked over.
“Miss, please come with us to the police station.” Said one of the policemen.
“I didn’t kill my grandfather, he was poisoned, ask the doctors. Christine, I did nothing to grandfather.”
Christine chuckled in rage. “What doctors? Is it the ones you bribed? Unfortunately for you, the doctors testified against you. They told the police that you urged them to cremate grandfather the minute he was pronounced dead to hide what really caused his death and you also forced him to diagnose you with fake mental health issues…”
“That’s not true! Stop lying!”
“I didn’t lie against you, sister, those were the doctors’ statements in the station.”
“Where are the doctors, tell me, they–”
“It’s unfortunate because the two doctors committed suicide out of guilt.”
“W– w– what are you talking about?” Her heart dropped to her stomach when she heard that. How was she going to prove her innocence now?
“You heard me. You killed two innocent workers too! Officer, take her away.” Christine turned her face away in disgust as the policemen tried to force the resistant Jeslyn out of the crowd.
“Let her go.” The voice wasn’t loud, nor was it low. However, it was able to stop the commotion.
The people turned to look at him. He pulled the policeman’s hand away from Jeslyn’s wrist and said: “I’ll bring her.”
Jeslyn raised her misty eyes to look at the man in front of her and slowly recalled he was the man she got married to.
She wasn’t the only one who remembered who she was. Those present that attended the wedding last week knew this man because of his outstanding appearance and the suppressed air around him.
“I–it’s you?” Jeslyn asked like she didn’t expect him to be here.
“What are you doing here?!” Ray, who hasn’t said anything since finally spoke up when he saw this man again, his enemy.
The groom ignored everyone else and held Jeslyn by the wrist as he walked her out of the crowd with the policemen following behind them and camera lights flashing after them.
The crowd watched as the man and Jeslyn got into a black inconspicuous car parked not far away and Ray suddenly laughed.
It wasn’t clear why he was laughing, but he murmured: “The last time he wasn’t wearing custom-made, nor branded clothes. This time also he is still wearing an unknown brand and even a rickety car. I was right, he only has that superior air and nothing else.”
Ray was supposed to be happy that the man who stole his bride and assisted her to humiliate him in public was not richer than him, however, all he felt was a burning rage to destroy the man.
“Christine, your sister is something else. She’s not only humiliated my brother and my entire family, but she also became a murderer and now, she had the guts to bring that wild man here. Wow, just wow.” Ray’s older sister clapped in amazement.
With the commotion that just happened, the funeral was hastened and the people appeared to be upset, but not the reporters and media personnel that were present.
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They arrived at the station, but before the groom could follow them in, his phone rang and he stepped aside to answer it.
“Master, it’s little Valen, his condition has relapsed. The doctors need you to be here, quick.” The nanny sounded anxious the whole time.
“Ok,” he ended the call and dialed Rex’s number. When he heard the programmed voice of the lady, he pinched the middle of his brows.
That’s right, he made Rex phoneless a while ago.
When he walked into the station, he saw Jeslyn being taken to the cell. He strode to her and said: “Miss, something came up, I’ll send someone over.”
Jeslyn only nodded. She didn’t have much hope that she would be freed from this trial, but she was happy that there was someone who stood by her when her family and friends deserted her. “Thank you,” she uttered before she stepped into the cell in her hospital gown.
For some reasons, he didn’t feel like leaving but he had to, his son is more important than the woman he just met– his wife now.
He walked out of the station and dialed a number. “Get Jeslyn Lee out of this mess.” He said before he disconnected the call and got into the car to leave for the airport.
Jeslyn stayed behind bars for two days before she was charged to court.
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In court, she had no lawyer. Her bank account was frozen, so she couldn’t get herself a competent lawyer and had to stick with the waste she was given.
Ever since she was arrested, nobody paid her a visit, not that she was expecting many people, but her sister was the only person she badly wanted to see, but she never came. However, to her surprise, Christine came to court to testify against her!
What could be worse than a person you trust so much giving false testimony to a case they knew would ruin your life completely?
Even the lawyer she was given by the court was no good. He sat there and watched as allegations upon allegations were leveled against her by those people she had given her heart to. Like, Ray, Maya, Ray’s sister, Christine, and a few other celebrity friends.
Jeslyn closed her eyes. Her tears had dried off but hearing her tell the court that:
“Grandfather loved Jeslyn a lot, however, Jeslyn constantly fought with him, and on that day that grandfather died, I was just coming in as they left me behind at the wedding venue…”
A teardrop slid from Jeslyn’s eyes and that was the last tear she promised to reveal in front of these people.
She didn’t wait for Christine to tell more lies and opened her mouth. “I’m guilty, please close the case and sentence me accordingly.”
She looked at Christine after that, but Christine had her face turned and refused to look at her. Jeslyn smiled bitterly. This was the sister she loved and cherished so dearly.
She looked around the courtroom and saw her father and his wife sneering at her.
Ray had a complicated look on his face and his sister was all smiles. Maya had no visible emotions on her face but she didn’t look like she was being forced.
“Is that your decision?” The judge asked her.
“What else can I say or do to prove my innocence? Those who want me to be hanged won’t give up, and neither will you and the court believe that I’m innocent without ‘sufficient’ proof.
The world hates me now and even my fans must have thought I did it too, after all, my dear sister didn’t believe me. To please you all, I’ll take the blame. It’s the death of my grandfather. Since I cannot give him justice, then what good would I be in living freely?”
She threw the questions at the judge who stayed silent for a while before declaring his judgment.
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“On the 15th of October, Jeslyn Lee was charged with first-degree murder. The court finds Jeslyn Lee has no prior criminal history and has no health issues. Although there are cases of her taking hard drugs as some leftovers were found in her blood.
The court finds the evidence presented by the defendant to not hold substantial proof of her innocence and hereby sentence Jeslyn Lee to life imprisonment without parole for the murder of her grandfather, Mr. Lee.” The judge struck the gravel to finalize his words.
Jeslyn looked from the judge to her sister who had a deadpan expression and then, to Ray and everyone else she knew, including her father and stepmother.
“Are you happy now? Of course, you will.” Then she looked at the cameras and smiled bitterly. “Thank you everyone for ruining the life of an innocent person. I don’t wish you to be in my shoes one day, but when you eventually do, you will understand how it feels to be condemned when you are innocent.”
She doesn’t take drugs, but they were miraculously found in her system. She knew it was from that drink she had before her wedding.
She stretched her hands out to the police officer who was coming towards her with handcuffs.
Once the handcuffs were placed on her, she followed the police officers as they escorted her out of the court and shielded her from the angry mob standing outside the court, ready to tear her into shreds.
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Meanwhile, the judge was seen in his office, sitting there in deep thought, wondering if he had wrongfully sentenced a person. Then he shook his head. The evidence against her was too enormous and real.
So many people testified against her, including her family members. From her stepmother to her sister, friends, ex-fiance, assistant, and even her grandfather’s workers, so it can’t be a lie, but why was he feeling restless after her parting words?
The judge couldn’t help, feeling frustrated with this case he just concluded.
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CHAPTER 6
Jeslyn walked into the prison cell with a folded white towel, another pair of orange uniforms, and toiletries.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, she turned to look back but the wardress had left.
There were two ladies in the cell. Both of them giving the vibe of cold-blooded murderers. They had lots of tattoos on their bodies.
One was wearing her jumpsuit with the upper part tied around her waist, leaving only her white singlet while the other had her jumpsuit falling off one shoulder.
They had lots of piercings and weirdly colored hairs with yellow as the outline for one and pink for the other.
The prison cell wasn’t that bad, compared to the ones she saw on TV and the news.
The bunk bed had three frames with the first and middle one occupied, so she walked towards the bed to climb to the top.
“Hey, what are you doing?” The one tying the upper part of her uniform on the waist asked with a villainous tone.
Jeslyn shivered and all the facade of confidence she had on was about to crumble when she saw the stare they were both giving her.
Those eyes were like those of a butcher who had seen a customer after so long.
“H–hi, I’m Jeslyn, Jeslyn Lee.” She introduced herself. The last thing she wanted was to have a problem with any of them.
“Nobody cares, newbie. Come here,” the other one with pink hair waved her over.
Jeslyn put down her stuff on the middle bed and slowly walked to the lady.
“Good. Go down on your knees,” she instructed.
“Huh?” Jeslyn subconsciously reacted the way she would have if she was told to kneel by a stranger in her home.
There was a frown of disapproval on her face.
“Are you deaf?” The one with yellow hair asked.
Jeslyn’s head reacted before her senses. She shook her head in denial.
“So go down on your knees, you are too tall,” said the pink-haired lady.
‘Too tall?’ She was just a girl with a normal height of 5’ft 4, so how was she too tall?
It was clear that Jeslyn didn’t understand that what they meant wasn’t about her height, but for her to come down to their level since they were sitting and she was standing.
“Yellow, get her to her knees.” The pink-haired one said to the yellow-haired one.
“W–what are you– thud!”
She was forced to her knees as yellow kicked the back of her knees.
Jeslyn yelped in pain with her head lowered to look at her kneeling legs.
Rough fingers entered her view and rested under her jaw and raised it to make her look at the pink-haired lady in the eyes.
“You are beautiful,” She stated.
‘It’s an obvious fact! I’m the prettiest lady in Rose city!’ She wanted to yell at the lady, but couldn’t find the courage.
“Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Too bad I hate to see pretty faces.” The pink lady said with a shake of her head, shocking Jeslyn into leaving her mouth open.
“Hey, are you a goldfish now? Close your mouth.” Yellow slapped her gently on the head. It was more like she was teasing than bullying her.
“Let her be, she was too stunned by my words. Little goldfish, do not blame me too much for what I’m about to do to your face. You should blame the lady who seduced that asshole that turned me into a mass murderer. If only she didn’t seduce my man with that pretty face of hers, I wouldn’t have tasted heartbreak and I wouldn’t have killed all the guests at their wedding.”
Jeslyn froze in shock, fear, and disbelief consumed her senses. She was brought into a cell with such a sick person?
“Do you want to know what I did to the cheating duo? I took them out of the church and boiled them alive until they–”
Jeslyn subconsciously dry heaved. Her innocent mind captured the scene and she couldn’t help but retch.
“Hahaha… She’s really a bunny, a cute bunny. I was just joking…” Pink laughed out loud.
Jeslyn was a little relieved when she heard that, but then, Pink said this.
“… I didn’t boil them in a pot though, I poured hot oil on his d*ck and her p*ssy.”
“Hahahah.” Yellow laughed seeing Jeslyn’s widened eyes.
“Ok, now that is another joke. But your expression is priceless, I love it.” Pink said with a laugh and let Jeslyn’s jaw go.
She rested her back on the wall and asked: “So, what brought a little bunny like you here?”
Jeslyn sat on the floor, feeling pains in her knees. “I– I was framed…”
“For a murder?”
She nodded even though she didn’t know how Pink knew.
“Don’t be shocked. These prison units are for murderers. So, who did you kill?”
“I didn’t kill him…”
“It doesn’t matter, little bunny. You were brought here, so accept you killed him.”
“I didn’t.” She shook her head. How can she boldly accept she killed her grandfather?
“That’s your problem. You better man up and be brave. If you show the queen this bunny side of yours, you’ll be dangling from the ceiling the next day.” Pink threw the warning nonchalantly.
Jeslyn blinked her long lashes in confusion.
“Ah, you don’t know who the queen is. She’s the–” Yellow was about to explain when Pink stopped her.
“Forget it. She’ll find out tomorrow. She just came in, let her rest.”
“That’s right. You should rest first.” Yellow said before she lay on the floor with her back.
Jeslyn climbed to the top bed with difficulty due to her aching knees and lay down on the bed, trying to block off their words that didn’t seem to make sense as they looked at her. It was obvious they were talking about her, but she wasn’t in the right frame of mind to care.
How again did she have such wicked people in her life?
Her sister, Christine, wasn’t really her biological sister. Her mother had seen little Christine roaming around the streets without a grown-up to watch over her, so she made the authorities take her away.
The authorities placed Christine under their care for some time while looking out for her parents. Christine was only three years old then. So when nobody claimed the child after three months of daily adverts and awareness to the public, the authorities decided it would be best to send her to an orphanage but little Christine held on to Ms. Alice and refused to let go.
With a soft heart, Ms. Alice adopted Christine after having a talk with her husband, Mr. Wales.
Six years old Jeslyn was excited to know that she would be getting a sibling. After all, she had been on her parent’s necks, disturbing them with the issue of wanting a sibling to play with.
Unbeknownst to her that she was pressuring her mother whom the doctor said could no longer give birth due to some medical condition that forced her womb to be removed.
Jeslyn could remember the first fight which happened between her parents was due to Christine being called an adopted child and getting bullied repeatedly in school. Ms. Alice took the matter with the school and the child’s parents so incredibly that it ended up in court and the school got closed down.
Mr. Wales was angry that Ms. Alice took the matter to the extreme and ordered Christine to be sent back to the orphanage as she tends to cause too much trouble.
Ms. Alice packed out of the house to live alone in one of her mansions with her two daughters.
To her, telling her to return Christine to the orphanage was the same as telling her to denounce Jeslyn as her child.
What mother would do that?
At that time, Christine was already ten years old, so she had never been able to forget that day to date.
Learning what her adopted father said, Christine couldn’t live freely with the family anymore and wouldn’t dare to make mistakes assuming she would be sent away and that made the mother and daughter go all out to show her massive care and love.
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On the day of Jeslyn’s 18th birthday, Ms. Alice got drunk for the first time after the party, and the next day, she issued a divorce letter to Mr. Wales.
To this day, Jeslyn didn’t know the full story, but from what she could gather, Ms. Alice found out that her husband whom she had married and given everything to was cheating on her with her assistant who was also her best friend.
Not just that, they had been betraying her for close to eighteen years, which meant that when Ms. Alice was pregnant with Jeslyn, her good husband was busy sleeping with his wife’s assistant.
After the divorce, her mother returned to Country A while she and Christine chose to stay with their father who wouldn’t let them leave with their mother.
At that time though, she was about to graduate from high school, so Ms. Alice saw no reason to fight for her custody since she was old enough to make her own decisions.
Jeslyn chose to stay with her father in Country G, but in a different apartment which her mother got her. She only had two months until she graduated high school before she would return to her mother in country A.
Christine chose to be with Jeslyn as she was more closer and free with her sister than their mother.
On the day of Jeslyn’s graduation, a massive party was thrown in her name and weirdly enough, that was all she remembered before she found herself lying in a hospital bed in country A and realized later that she had been in a coma for 2 years and had selective amnesia, so everything that happened from the day of her graduation to the night before she woke up from coma were lost and nobody wanted to tell her about it.
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A few days after she woke up from the coma, she discovered that her mother had died some months into her coma and it was that same month Mr. Wales held a lavish wedding for his pregnant mistress.
To Jeslyn’s ears, it was more like they were celebrating Ms. Alice’s demise.
From there on, Jeslyn’s hatred for Mr. Wales was born and she cut communication with him, after all, he never asked about her well-being when she was in a coma.
She moved in with her grandfather after leaving the hospital. She had thought that her grandfather and her would live awkwardly since they didn’t know each other well, but surprisingly, they hit off real good and that was the greatest decision she ever made in her life.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Christine and Mr. Lee.
Although the old man didn’t show any hostility towards her, he also didn’t try to force the bond that wasn’t there, so they had an awkward relationship.
However, that didn’t stop the old man from being a nice grandfather who wouldn’t cater to his granddaughter. Whatever he did for Jeslyn, he also did for Christine.
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Jeslyn blinked when she heard the sound from the iron gate. She turned to look at her inmates, but they weren’t where she had left them earlier.
“Wake up!” The wardeness yelled as she hit her baton on the gate, creating a loud ringing sound in the room.
“Come on, stop being a frustrated b!tch! Did you not get enough shag from your man last night? I can relieve your stress right here, by eating your hole right here, after all, I do both genders, I’m neutral.” Yellow said in an annoyed tone.
Even though Jeslyn wasn’t the best when it comes to such slang, she still understood what that person was saying and it was gross.
What does she mean by eating her hole here?
“Shut the f*ck up, you as*wipe!” The wardeness yelled with her face turning red.
“Hahaha… it seems she’s a nubcake,” Yellow laughed.
“That’s right, I haven’t seen this face before… so red like a tomato,” Pink added.
The two ladies made fun of the wardeness who clearly wasn’t having it as she glared at them.
After feeling satisfied from mocking the wardress, Yellow asked: “What do you want? Don’t tell us it’s morning already.”
“Glad you know that, now get your worthless a*s out of my sight!” The wardress yelled at them.
“M–morning?” Jeslyn whispered. It was already morning? She remembered she got into bed in the evening, so does that mean she was in deep thought until morning!?
“Hey, noob, get down!” The wardeness pointed the baton to Jeslyn who looked lost.
“Yes, ma’am,” she responded as she tried to get down from the bed..
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