THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 19
“What is going on?” Maverick asked passively.
“Mav–”
“Brother, she’s my woman now.” Rex smiled with squinted eyes. Maverick could feel the happiness he was radiating.
“Rex!” Celestine balled her fist as she waited to hear what Maverick would say.
“What? He’s still going to find out, after all, you’re my fiance now… we got engaged, didn’t we?”
Celestine almost cried in shame. Rex had always been a blabbermouth, but this time, he was obviously doing it to force her into having no other choice than to accept him.
Maverick’s eyes trailed down to Celestine’s finger and he saw the sparkling diamond ring smiling at him.
The ring is big and beautiful, it calls people’s attention and announces to them that Celestine was taken.
Celestine slowly hid the hand behind her and waited with a drumming heart for Maverick’s verdict.
Maverick said nothing as he looked from the nervous Celestine to the excited Rex. After a while of silence, he finally opened his mouth. “Take care of her.”
“Yes, brother.” Rex’s smile widened and he hugged the surprised Celestine. “I told you, my brother has no problem with us getting into a relationship.”
“Get off me, you pest!” Celestine untangled herself from him before standing up. “Mav, I’m sorry for disappointing you. I tried to fight the feelings but I lost. I’m sorry.”
Maverick put his hands in his trousers and looked towards Matt’s office door. “Take care of him… he’s still young.”
Celestine slowly lowered her gaze. That’s right, he’s still young. When she lifted her eyes again, she smiled bitterly. “I will.”
“I have no problem with what you two do.” Maverick turned his head to look at her. “You both couldn’t help it.” He took his hand off his trousers’ pocket and patted her shoulder.
He doesn’t have a problem but Matt would. However, that has nothing to do with him. He’ll allow the three of them to sort themselves out. Matters of the heart have always been a force to reckon with. He found out a few years ago that both of them had developed feelings for each other and had been silently watching them hurt themselves.
He couldn’t take their stupidity anymore, so he ruined her marriage to create another chance for his brother. He did all that before he knew Matt also loves her.
Maverick hopes that the three of them can settle things diplomatically when they finally start to go loggerheads.
Celestine hugged him and buried her face in his chest. Maverick was caught off guard. His eyes darted to the door Jeslyn entered through before he relaxed and slowly patted Celestine’s back.
“Hey!” Rex rushed off his seat and started to pull Celestine off Maverick while saying; “Stay away from my brother, he has a wife!”
Celestine chuckled and hugged Maverick even more tightly.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
Meanwhile, Vera was in her room, reading a text on her phone. After she was done, she sent a reply before pulling out the sim card. She walked to the bathroom and flushed away the sim.
“It’s been five hours, I still haven’t seen those two. Where did they go? They haven’t left the house because I have been by the window, watching outside… don’t tell me they are inside their room–” her eyes snapped open when she thought of the possibility that they might be having s3x.
She took a blue coat and drafted it on her shoulder before heading out.
Getting to Maverick’s door, she rang the bell a few times but got no answer. She started to think that they would be in Jeslyn’s room but just as she turned, her eyes involuntarily gazed at the two closed doors a distance away.
Her curiosity took the wheels of her legs and she started to walk slowly towards the doors like she was being compelled.
Reaching one of the doors, she stretched out her hand to touch the knob but held it back and balled the hand. She looked right, then left, and tried to open it again but stopped herself again.
She was nervous and afraid. The new mission that was sent to her just now was to enter Maverick’s red room. She knew it would be difficult but the way her heart was hammering her chest, like it was going to explode, told her that today wasn’t a good day, so she turned and ran away.
What is inside Maverick’s red room? Why would her boss tell her to get inside it? What would she be doing once she gets in?
All of these were questions Vera cannot answer.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
At another house, Alex could be seen sitting on a blue couch with her legs crossed.
In front of her was a woman of her age. She was clad in a seductive red silk gown that barely covered anything.
A clear glass of red liquid was placed on her fiery red lips.
Pink looked around the classy sitting room. It was beautiful and luxurious with a lonely vibe.
“Alex, long time no see. Where have you been hiding?”
Pink shifted her gaze from the interior of the sitting room to the woman in front of her who looked very beautiful but wasn’t enough to hold a candle to Jeslyn.
“Let’s cut to the chase. I came here to ask for a favor,” She said.
“Oh, the Doyenne’s right hand now asks favors from small fries like me? Don’t be like that, Alex, You are mocking me,” She said sarcastically with a fake smile.
“Diana…” Pink sighed and shut her eyes. “Please, help a friend in need.”
“Hehe… Come on, Alex, do you know that word? Don’t abuse it, please. It will make us who know the value of friendship cringe.” Diana blew on her manicured nails and slowly crossed her legs with her back leaned back to rest on the couch.
On one of her ankles has a glittering diamond anklet with a half–heart pendant. Close to her ankle, was a red half–heart tattoo.
With her displaying what she was on the exposed part of her skin, it was evident she has a higher position in the half–heart organization that even the government wouldn’t dare to touch her.
“Diana… I’m sorry for what I did in the past. I know I hurt your feelings, forgive me.”
“We were friends, Alex, at least I treated you that way but you never saw me as one…” she placed the drink on the table and got up. Diana walked to the white wall behind her and placed her palm on it. Just like Maverick’s Cabin house, the wall splitted in two. Behind the wall was another wall with pictures stuck to it.
The pictures were of three young teenage girls. Alice, Alex, and Diana. In almost all the pictures, Alice and Diana formed a heart shape with their index and thumb fingers joined together and Alex placed her index finger in the middle of the heart, dividing it in two.
All the pictures they took in different years together were like that except one which has no Alex in it. Alice and Diana made a love shape that wasn’t divided.
“You should still remember what these pictures stand for, right?” Diana asked while looking at the pictures.
Alex didn’t stand up from her seat because she could see the photos clearly. “It’s our journey in the organization.”
“Good that you still remember. When we started, we believed what they fed us until we found love, but what did you do, Alex? You betrayed me… you betrayed our sacred bond!”
Alex said nothing in defense. She had always been a bad girl from the beginning, whenever she did something and tried to explain, no one except Alice believed her, so she stopped explaining and rather chose to bear all accusations.
Diana chuckled again. “I know you won’t say anything, so no need. Why are you here?” She returned to her seat with a stoic face.
“I want to know everything that happened with my daughter and Alice.”
“What makes you think I would tell you?” She raised a brow.
Alex hesitated for a while before coming clean. “The sisterhood knows I had a child. Before they come for her, I need to be prepared.”
“Hahahaha… karma has finally caught up with you. Why should I help you? Why do you think I can’t alert the sisterhood that you are in my house? Have you forgotten what position I hold there now?”
Alex stayed silent.
“You won’t speak?” Diana asked, a little annoyed.
“Alice died to keep the sisterhood away from my child. Her death will be in vain if the sisterhood gets Jeslyn… you’re her godmother too, so I’m sure you won’t want your goddaughter dead.”
Diana’s muscles tensed when she heard that. That’s right, Alice gave up everything for Alex’s daughter that she loved dearly. Letting Alice’s sacrifice go to waste is something she cannot take.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she welcomed the memories that came to her.
“26 years ago, after you ran away with your pregnancy, your sister was also pregnant. You two gave birth at the same hospital and Alice’s child was killed by that woman, then you gave Alice your daughter. This is a story you already know.”
Alex nodded.
“After that, you left Country G and returned to the organization, thinking no one from the sisterhood knows. Well, the Doyenne did. She wasn’t sure about why you suddenly requested a year’s leave, so she sent a mole after you. I killed the mole, but she had already told Doyenne something.
I tried to warn Alice about the impending storm but Doyenne found out and had me locked away for five years. When I got out a year later, I learned that Jeslyn or Rossa… what should I call her?”
“She answers both.”
“Fine, Jeslyn Rossa got entangled with Lu Hao’s first son on the forbidden island. I and Alice thought it was a good and bad thing, considering that Doyenne sent people to take Jeslyn Rossa back from the island but because Lu Hao got involved, the sisterhood failed, so they sank the island.
It would have been a good thing for Jeslyn Rossa to be connected to the Lu family, but knowing there were more dangers there than the organization, Alice paid no heed to Jeslyn Rossa’s tantrum of wanting to see her ‘older brother’, which was Lu Hao’s oldest son, Lu Ren or Maverick as he choose to be called.
Jeslyn Rossa got sick due to her excessive cries and rejection of food for weeks. Seeing that her daughter might die, Alice had no choice but to tamper with Jeslyn Rossa’s memory and I also helped her destroy the child’s and Alice’s record so the sisterhood thought they died on the island… After all, your parents already charged identities and went incognito, so the sisterhood couldn’t do anything for those years.
Although it worked, Jeslyn Rossa didn’t stop bothering Alice to give her a sibling. We both know that Alice’s womb was removed after she gave birth to her dead baby, so she couldn’t give birth anymore, which was why when she saw that Christine girl, she adopted her.
Things got better at Alice’s side but who would have thought that Damien Yu, Feng Yu’s twin would see Jeslyn Rossa as a good chess piece to bring Maverick down?”
“What has this got to do with Psycho?” Pink frowned.
“Remember Jeslyn and Maverick Lu got entangled on the island, right? That was when Maverick fell in love. He also disturbed his father to bring him Rossa. All these caused a stir in Country M, so Damien Yu got to know that Maverick liked someone.
Around eleven years ago… Jeslyn was 15 at the time if I’m not mistaken. Damien Yu injected Jeslyn with ATOM through the health care service Jeslyn received in school after getting injured in a play. You already know that part, right?”
Alex shook her head stiffly. Most of Jeslyn’s childhood she knew nothing about because she was hiding and preventing the sisterhood from discovering anything. She had no idea that the sisterhood thought Alice and Jeslyn died on the island.
She only got to know that Jeslyn had the ATOM virus Inside her when she turned 16. Ever since, she started to send the suppression pills every month to Alice. It was on one of those deliveries that the sisterhood caught on to her activity and investigated to find out the child they thought was dead didn’t die and also, the child was hers and not Alice’s.
Alice was happy when Jeslyn got pregnant because the rules of the Sisterhood states that a girl could only be initiated from childhood or if they were still virgins at teen or adult. So, it came as good news to them when Jeslyn got pregnant… After all, they were already planning to arrange a boyfriend for her after her eighteenth birthday. The boyfriend also has to immediately get her pregnant too.
So when the issue of Jeslyn sleeping with a stranger came about, Alice didn’t allow the doctors to flush out the sperm that was inside Jeslyn and waited for a few weeks, hoping and praying that she gets pregnant. Luckily Jeslyn did.
To make things more intense for Jeslyn so she’ll go for a test, Alice pretended to not be worried, allowing only Jeslyn to worry about the outcome of that night. So the moment her period didn’t come on the day it was supposed to, she ran to the hospital for a test. When the result came out, the first thought that came to her mind was that her mother might be upset that her future has been ruined. She thought of getting an abortion but decided against it and instead went to her mother.
To her greatest surprise, she was shocked to see that her mother was rather excited.
Nine months later, Jeslyn gave birth to a child at Country G’s hospital. She lost consciousness before getting to see her daughter but when she woke up, she was told her daughter was stillborn. She couldn’t take the news so her emotions ran out of control and the virus in her system kicked in.
Alice who just returned from a care center at the time had to immediately call Alex to bring the suppression pills over.
Because it wasn’t time for another dose, the impromptu call made Alex lose her mind and forgot to cover her tracks while searching for the pills. Getting the pills wasn’t easy. She literally had to do some dirty things for some higher-ups of the Dark Age organization before she could get her hands on a pill, let alone two.
Due to her haste, she failed to notice the people from the sisterhood that were following her around.
When Doyenne found out what Alex was hiding, she gave orders for Jeslyn and her child to be brought to her but since Jeslyn’s daughter died, only Jeslyn was to be taken away.
However, Alex and Alice refused to give those sent by Doyenne a chance to get close to Jeslyn, so the hospital became a shooting center. Many doctors and nurses were killed, including unfortunate patients.
In the end, Alice took a bullet for Alex and pleaded for Alex to protect Jeslyn with all she has and must not allow her to enter the organization, no matter what.
Seeing her twin sister lying in her hands dead, Alex went on a killing spree. Unfortunately, she didn’t see Jeslyn standing by her ward’s door.
The scene of her mother lying dead, plus the fact that her child died, traumatized Jeslyn so badly that she ran mad. Even after she got better after intense treatment, the images continued to haunt her. Left with no other choice, her memory was wiped again and she was forced to stay in a coma for two years.
“Why did Damien Yu get involved with my child’s life?” It was clear that the memory touched something in Alex’s heart because her tone was shaking like she would break down at any moment.
“Damien Yu had a fight with Maverick over territory. The territory was seized by Damien but Maverick snatched it from him, so Damien felt that since he has never been able to win against Maverick in a fair fight, it would be better to kill him emotionally, so he employed the aid of the Dark Age organization’s satellite to fish out information about the child Maverick loved.
He got hold of the information I couldn’t delete and went after Jeslyn. However, his brother, Ruben Yu got involved and blocked his path with Vera… yes, the Vera you know.” Diana paused to take a deep breath. She works at the information center of the half–heart organization and also has connections in the Dark Age organization, reason she knows so much backstory.
“On the night Maverick was drugged by his friends, Jeslyn was also drugged by one of her classmates on Damien’s request… don’t worry, Alice already killed the girl.
Jeslyn was taken to Maverick’s room by Damien’s men instead of the escort Maverick’s friends got for him… When Ruben found out about his brother’s plans, he rushed to the hotel with Vera but he was too late, however, that didn’t stop him from taking Jeslyn away.
When he found out Jeslyn was pregnant due to the incident, he got a random man to get Vera pregnant.
Jeslyn gave birth to a boy in Country G’s hospital and Ruben forced Vera to give birth to a premature baby girl in the same hospital. Ruben switched the children before taking Vera and the child away to Rose City.”
“Where was my sister?”
“You should have noticed that when Alice was fighting alongside you in the hospital, she wasn’t looking good. It was because she got into an accident on her way to the hospital and was sent to a care center. However, when she woke up a few hours later, she rushed back to the hospital where Jeslyn was, only to meet that Jeslyn’s child was ‘dead’ and Jeslyn was having a seizure due to ATOM kicking in… in other words, nobody was with Jeslyn when she gave birth.”
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 11 – 20
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