THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 1 – 10

THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 1 – 10

BY SIR ZACH

CHAPTER 8

Maverick retracted his steps and returned to his sorrowful wife.
Seeing her like this tugs at his heartstring. “It’s just a dream,” he said while pulling her to rest on him. He only wanted her to take it easy but who would have thought that it would make things worse?

“No, it’s not,” Jeslyn shook her head as tears gushed out of her red and swollen eyes. “It was too real to be a dream. Maverick,” she looked at him and slowly took his hand then placed it on her chest. “It hurts here,” she said.

“My heart… hurts, Plum. It feels like… like… I’m dying. My baby, I didn’t see my baby.”

Maverick flattened his lips. He only does that when he is stressed or feeling emotional.

“I’ll find out what happened. Trust me,” he wiped her tears with his index finger and kissed her on the head before hugging her.

Jeslyn cried even more before falling asleep in Maverick’s arms again.

THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 1 – 10

After a while, Maverick laid her to bed before getting up to head to the sitting room. He didn’t stay long knowing Jeslyn might stir awake any moment and if she can’t find him, with that broken state she was in, she might start to panic.

Maverick returned to the room with a laptop and sat on the bed, making sure to be close enough so Jeslyn would feel that he was there.

He unblocked his laptop and opened a suspicious-looking app. After a while of accessing its features, a dark-themed blank space popped up and a moment later, a stream of code appeared. Maverick started to type away on his laptop.

Good thing the keyboard wasn’t making clicking sounds. The longer Maverick stayed on the laptop, the faster his fingers moved.

Soon his fingers started to blur due to how insanely fast he was going.

To the general public, CCTV cameras are just a means of protection and they can delete or destroy the images whenever they want to. Unbeknownst to them, every single thing captured on CCTV, no matter how relevant or irrelevant the things are, are being saved by some humans at the top watching every step the people take.

People might think their lives are safe and they have their privacy all to themselves, but these people controlling the world have nothing like ‘privacy’ and ‘human rights’ in their dictionaries.

Whenever they target someone and want to ruin them, all they need to do is pass out an order for the person to be taken out and before they know it, ‘rumors’ will suddenly start to spread from ‘nowhere’ and then, when the person starts to defend themselves, evidence about him is suddenly ‘dug’ out from the internet to nail the person down.

Sometimes the people would be wondering where those evidence came from because they rightly destroyed those evidence.

How would they have known that the organization had its eyes set on all humans?

Even though the CCTV footage of that night was ‘intact’ and didn’t look fishy, now that Maverick had started to doubt the credibility of what he knew back then, he wanted to find the real CCTV footage that might have been deleted.

However, the more Maverick went deeper into ‘those people’s’ system, he realized that the particular video he was searching for could not be found.

Maverick curled his lips. So there has finally been a footage that these people are hiding?

Arriving at this point, Maverick’s conviction was that there was a conspiracy going on and it has got something to do with Jeslyn, him, and that footage.

Maverick stopped his search after hitting a dead end. He could detect traps everywhere. It would be bad if he got caught, so he pulled out. There are lots of departments he hasn’t hacked into anyway. The footage must be somewhere in those department.

Maverick put down his laptop and called Pink. “What do you know about Jeslyn’s eighteenth birthday?”

“I know nothing. I was out for work at the time.”

“Don’t lie to me,” he frowned.

“I wouldn’t dare. Did something happen?”

“What happened before your sister died?” He queried again.

“My sister… She took the fall for me…”

“Before her death,” he cut her off.

“I don’t know but I heard she died at the hospital she visited for a check-up. What? What’s wrong? Did something happen that I’m not aware of?”

“Find out,” Maverick said before he ended the call.
…

THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 1 – 10

The next morning, Jeslyn appeared to be getting better but Maverick knew she was faking because when he looked into her eyes, there was deep pain and confusion.

Jeslyn was confused and doesn’t know what she was anymore. Every day, she finds out different things about herself– mostly from weird dreams.

What’s more off-putting is that they don’t look like dreams. They feel like she has lived them before and was only revisiting or refreshing her mind.

“Plum, I Miss Valen,” she suddenly said out of nowhere.

“He’ll be awake soon,” he replied while slicing some onion.

“His world must be boring him by now. Plum, I’m sure Valen wants to return too.” She said enthusiastically but Maverick understood that his wife wasn’t alright. She was mentally unwell.

He put down the knife and pulled her to his chest. “We should return tomorrow. I’ll take you to Valen.”

Jeslyn’s eyes lit up in flames of happiness but they dimmed again and her enthusiasm dampened. “You said he’s been sent to–”

“Rex will send him back.”

“Can that be done?”

“Mn,” he took off her apron and wore it. “I’ll make the food.”

“But I–”

He shut Jeslyn up with a kiss which she readily returned.

Jeslyn was excited that she would be going back to see Valen again. Although the matter of her child was still at the back of her mind, she chose to make Maverick happy too.

She realized while watching him cook their meal that she was being unfair to her husband.

Firstly, the child, even though she existed, was not Maverick’s. Yet, while she was mourning the loss of an imaginary child, he was patient with her.

Secondly, she had a one-night stand with a weird man. Even though she already told him, he didn’t feel disgusted.
Thirdly, he left his sick son, and his business just to bring her here to have fun but she ruined everything.

Maverick doesn’t deserve this treatment. She told herself and slowly started to walk towards him.

However before she took the third step, Maverick who was frying veggies stated without looking back.

“I thought I left an order.”

“A wife doesn’t listen to orders.”

Maverick turned his head to see her smiling. “You’re good at keeping it in.” He uttered before turning his head back to the pan.

“I have to. I don’t want to be Karen…” she hugged him from behind and rested the side of her face on his back. “My husband does so much to make me happy and I haven’t done anything praise-worthy for him.”

“I’m not complaining,” he said without wasting another second.

“I am.” She kissed his back, his robe was thin, almost revealing. “Plum, you deserve better.” She swallowed. “I can feel I’m a bag of trouble.”

From her weird nightmares and the enemies she has, she had come to the conclusion that her fortune wasn’t good.

“I’m worse,” he turned off the heat of the stove and turned around to face her. “I’m a villain, yet you didn’t leave. Why?”

His chocolate brown eyes and her hazel pupil stared at each other as sparks flew around them.

If this was a cartoon, there would have been love shapes circling around their heads right now.

“Because…” She took a step and closed the distance. “You are my heaven… and have always been.”

“Your heaven is filled with dangers and uncertainty that might drain you,” he said.

Jeslyn drew circles around where she knew his nip was and said; “I approached my heaven without knowing what it entailed. Then after knowing…” She trailed her finger up to his face and stopped at his lips, “it showed me all the hidden treasures and I grabbed them all because I love treasures.” Her hand came down to his treasure… “How can I leave this beautiful heaven?” She squeezed his bulge softly. “No matter the dangers, my Sugar plum won’t let me be aggrieved.” She smiled as it grew bigger in her hand.

Maverick curled his lips into a smile. He was genuinely happy that her trust had reached this level. She doesn’t know all he’s capable of, which is why he is slowly showing her little by little who he truly is with his actions instead of saying it to her.

This woman has proven beyond doubt to be true to his feelings for her. Everything else has to be handled smoothly and cleanly from now on.

“Candy floss, are you ready to get punished?”

“If the punishment involves… tying my hands above my head and–” she smiled. “Not telling. Find out for yourself.” She let go of his treasure and started to walk the other way to bypass him so she could serve the food but he pulled her by the arm and she bumped into his strong chest.

“Ouch… what are you… hey! put me down! Mr. Maverick, hold on, let’s talk! Wait!…. I’m sorry!”

Sitting on the black granite bench top, beside the kitchen sink, both of them stared at each other. Hearts beating wildly against rib cages. Desire circled around them. Love and lust tingled their sensitive parts.

“You need to experience another form of punishment.” He told her but his voice was deeper now.

Jeslyn swallowed. She was anticipating it, at the same time, pleading in her heart for him to give her a lighter punishment.

“Em, sugar plum, how about I… ahem… guide you through it myself?”

“Scared?”

“N– no, no, but I’m… I… rumble!”

Maverick held in his laughter and Jeslyn looked down at her stomach. What an embarrassment!

“Ahem… food is ready.” Maverick reminded her with a straight face.

Jeslyn glared at him knowing he was laughing at her. She jumped down from and hmphed before marching away, however…

“Pah,”

Jeslyn froze with eyes widened. Her hands flew to her butt and held them before she slowly turned her head to the back to see the perpetrator looking like he just did nothing.

“I’ll take the rice,” he walked away after that.

Didn’t he just slap my butt cheek?! Why was he…

Jeslyn watched him walk away speechlessly. However, when he got to the door, he paused, turned to look at her, and smirked.

Jeslyn finally registered that he did that because she flirted with him and still broke the sweet atmosphere.

“Maverick! you perverted old man!!”

She took the remaining soup to the dining room unwillingly. She thought Maverick would do or say something after calling him a perverted old man but he didn’t.

While eating, she was stealing glances at him but the man was slowly eating his food without care.

She called him a perverted old man but he didn’t respond. Does that mean he won’t retaliate? That’s unlike Maverick. He always retaliates.

Jeslyn kept thinking until they finished eating and returned the plates to the kitchen. After about 10 minutes of eating and nothing still happened, Jeslyn decided to go wash the plates.

“Maybe he is considering the fact that I cried a lot last night.” She smiled.

However, the minute she rinsed a plate and was about to keep it, he came behind her and gently brushed a finger down the back of her neck.

Jeslyn jumped in fright, “Ahh!”

“Clack!”The plate fell and shattered.

When she turned around, she saw her naked husband smirking at her.

“You needed the service of a pervert?” he asked.

Jeslyn subconsciously nodded. “This is what perverts do,” she said with her eyes on his standing treasure.

Maverick lifted her off the ground and carried her to the kitchen counter and made her sit on it.

“Candy floss, you asked for it.”

“I’ve been waiting, my Sugar plum.”

THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 1 – 10

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