THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 41 – 50
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 48
Maverick raised his face from her neck and scrutinized her face. She looked peaceful while sleeping. She looked like she didn’t have issues disturbing her. However, he knew how much her heart was hurting, just like that little girl, Rossa, who used to tell him about her mother while crying, yet a few seconds later, she would start playing again like she wasn’t the one crying a while back.
‘Jeslyn… What’s your real identity? Why can’t I find anything meaningful about you? Who is that person blocking my path each time I get a new lead? Your medical reports said you are missing two years of memory. What happened in those two years? What traumatized you so much? How did you also forget your childhood?’
While thinking all that, Maverick’s fingers were subconsciously outlining her face. Jeslyn stirred but her eyes were still closed. She changed the position her hand was in and placed it anywhere.
Maverick’s mind returned and he slowly trailed his eyes to where her hand was resting and flattened his lips. “If only you know what you are doing, Jeslyn.”
He took her hand off his bulge and placed it on his chest after putting his back on the bed.
Jeslyn snuggled against him, placing her head on his chest, and smiled. It wasn’t known if she did it intentionally or subconsciously.
That night, while everyone was sleeping, Ray was busy watching the CCTV footage he placed on the Lee property.
He saw the ladies in black, the two with multicolored hair and one dressed in all black with a cocktail hat. He zoomed into the video. The girl doesn’t have Jeslyn’s face, she also didn’t have Jeslyn’s happy vibe. The girl’s personality was cold and unfriendly, just like the two ladies standing beside her as she stared at the Lee mansion.
Ray sighed and rubbed his temple. He knew she couldn’t have been Jeslyn but why did he still have the nagging feeling that it was her?
Ray was a step away from going crazy. He didn’t know what to do anymore, so he left the image playing on the screen while he went to another laptop to continue working on it.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 41 – 50
The next morning…
Jeslyn got up refreshed. Maverick was nowhere to be found. There was no new chapter to read yet, so she decided to go see Valen and probably take him out to show him around Rose City and the places she used to go to.
“Valen, child,” she opened his door, a room Pink was supposed to have been in. However, he was not in, rather, she met Rex putting on his shirt.
“S–sorry… Bang!” She immediately shut the door and ran off.
Rex was confused at her reaction. He stood frozen for a while before he chuckled and shook his head. If she could react this way after seeing his body, then what would she do when she sees Maverick’s? Would she have a nosebleed?
“Wait! She must have already seen his body, right? Huh? Brother hasn’t given me any hint, or wait… I haven’t asked him about it. Don’t tell me… Has my brother not touched her yet?” Rex’s eyes widened for a brief moment before he hurriedly shook his head.
“It’s not possible. I know my brother. If Jeslyn couldn’t get his body reacting, he wouldn’t have left hickeys on her… But there’s a difference between… Forget it. I’ll find out. Hehehe…”
Rex knows every single thing that goes on in the house, provided the thing didn’t happen inside the rooms of the high profiled people in the house, like Maverick’s room, Jeslyn’s room, and Valen’s room.
The servants and workers cannot escape Rex’s detection unless he chooses to ignore them.
As for the reason he knew Jeslyn had hickeys, a few servants saw her when she left Maverick’s room, wearing his shirt and they saw the deep red marks on her pale smooth skin. They were mature adults, so they didn’t need a detective to tell them what happened.
Rex sighed and shook his head again before he continued with what he was doing.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 41 – 50
Jeslyn got to the sitting room and found Valen sitting quietly. She tiptoed to stand beside him but the child didn’t notice because he was lost in thought. Jeslyn found it strange. She walked to stand in front of him, yet Valen seemed to not have noticed.
Jeslyn sighed and squatted in front of him. “How many children have you gotten?”
Valen’s gaze focused before he saw Jeslyn in front of him. His lips parted and wanted to call her name but decided against it because he thought she was still upset.
“I– ” he wanted to apologize but shook his head. He was right to have said that. After the incident, he downloaded Jeslyn’s music last night and listened to them. The child almost threw his phone in a fit of rage after comparing her old voice to the new one.
No wonder she was still a D-list singer after 5 years. Her agency gave her nonsense to sing in a rubbish voice.
“Jeslyn, are you dumb?”
Jeslyn looked at the cute child staring at him and knocked him on the head. “You don’t say that to your elders,” She lectured.
“But I didn’t say that. People online were saying that about you,” he glared at her.
“Huh? Why? I haven’t caused any sensation for the past four months,” she frowned.
Valen rolled his eyes. “It was on the comments you got on your music. People were complaining and insulting you but your agency did nothing to defend you. They ruined your voice and watched you remain in the beginning, yet you did nothing to help yourself… So I agreed with your haters that you are dumb. If I were them, I would have been a worse hater.” He glared at her again.
After understanding where he was coming from, Jeslyn laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. “I was really dumb.” She didn’t want to start giving excuses and blaming people for her mistakes, so she admitted to it.
Valen nodded slowly to whatever he thought. He stayed silent for a while before he asked in a low voice. “Did you cry?”
Jeslyn was taken aback. She didn’t understand until she did. “Hahaha… of course not! Why would I cry because you told me the truth I was ignorant to? Because of my little sweet, sweet pie, I’ll start all over again to train my voice so that you’ll commend me in the future. Hahahaha…”
Seeing her laughing so sweetly, Valen’s heart was relieved and he also smiled before he initiated a hug with Jeslyn.
She froze in shock. ‘Valen hugged her?’ Her hands slowly raised and she touched the child. He really hugged her!
Jeslyn was so excited that she returned the hug but it got so tight that the child was almost squashed.
“I– I’m sorry,” the child whispered but loud enough for Jeslyn to hear.
Ever since she knew Valen, this was the first time he apologized without someone asking him. It made Jeslyn so emotional that she almost cried.
She pulled away and placed her hands on the child’s shoulders. “Child, why are you sorry?”
Valen flattened his lips into a straight line. He didn’t want to tell her that he was apologizing for criticizing her like that in the kitchen. The reason he blew up like that yesterday was that he saw her with his father.
Valen just realized that he tends to get really angry whenever he sees his father and Jeslyn together. For some reason, he wants to be the only man around Jeslyn.
Valen also couldn’t tell her that he was apologizing for calling her dumb. To be honest, he wasn’t the one who literally called her dumb, he was only repeating what he read, but since Jeslyn knocked him on the head, then it must be wrong, so he decided he had seen a perfect excuse.
“For calling you dumb,” he finally said after a long time.
Jeslyn chuckled. “I know you a little to know that you don’t hold back what you want to say unless you are about to tell a white lie. So, the reason you apologized isn’t that you called me dumb…” Jeslyn paused and raised Valen’s jaw with her fingers, forcing him to maintain eye contact with her.
“When you feel… no, when you know you have offended someone, don’t make excuses or try to shy away from apologizing. It makes…” Jeslyn was stunned because Valen didn’t let her finish before he nodded.
“I understand…” he replied while staring at Jeslyn’s hazel eyes. “From now on, I’ll be good,” he concluded.
Jeslyn couldn’t describe her excitement. Valan wasn’t the type to not fulfill his promises, so since he said he would, definitely he meant it.
“Valen, child, I’m so excited right now, so for that, I’ll be taking you out!” Jeslyn exclaimed.
Valen also smiled. He had long wanted to experience this kind of life but his condition and the family he belonged to, plus what Mulan had taught him made the child stop thinking about these ‘minor’ things.
Jeslyn surveyed Valen. The child had been wearing either suits or black casuals. He needed a change of wardrobe.
“Let me go in and get changed.” Jeslyn hurried towards her room like she was being chased.
Getting into her room, she went to her wardrobe. She scattered the luxurious clothes but couldn’t find what she was looking for.
“Where is that black dress?” She mumbled while searching around. She was not a fan of black dresses but it seems she has to start getting black clothes to match Valen’s sometimes.
The only black dress she was seeing was the one she wore to the columbarium. She set that aside and continued to go through her wardrobe.
After rummaging through the wardrobe, she finally spotted a black dress, neatly folded inside her wardrobe. She pulled it out and opened the dress. Her brows furrowed because she couldn’t remember buying herself something like this.
Checking the label, she realized it was a customized dress. “Did grandpa get me this?” She asked in doubt.
She didn’t suspect anyone else because her grandfather used to get her dresses and leave them in her wardrobe without informing her. He said he loved the reaction she wore whenever she brought the dresses to him.
Jeslyn sighed and started to unzip the dress. She no longer doubted the gown because her grandfather had told her one time to get herself some black clothes but each time, she kicked against it. He must have sent it to her wardrobe without her knowledge.
After a while of putting on the flare knee–length gown with spaghetti straps, Jeslyn couldn’t help but chuckle as she looked at herself in the mirror.
“Grandpa, you’re such a sexy old man, hahaha.” She laughed. How could a 75-year-old man know so much about sexy dresses?
“Grandma must have been a lucky woman,” she smiled bitterly. If only they lived long together.
Jeslyn sat down to make herself up. She applied thick makeup on herself and did a thorough disguise. By the time she was done, she looked nothing like Jeslyn… or rather, there was still a little bit of Jeslyn left but it was just too little that it went unnoticed.
After she was done, she took her black shades, picked up a black purse, and opened it to put the shades in it, but realized the purse was empty. “Ah! No money…” she pouted pitifully and sighed dejectedly.
“Then how am I supposed to take Valen out?… I’m so mad right now!… Wait,” she paused to think before a dubious smile crept onto her lips. “Pink should have a decent amount of money in her account…” she clicked her tongue playfully before rushing out of the room.
Getting to the sitting room Jeslyn asked Pink’s whereabouts and was told she was outside the house. Jeslyn rushed outside, leaving Valen to think about what had gotten into her.
“Older sister!” Jeslyn screamed.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 41 – 50
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