THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 49
Jeslyn was sleeping when she felt a soft touch. She stirred but didn’t open her eyes. Her day was hectic and she was dead tired. What she needed the most at the moment was a good sleep.
She snuggled into Valen and held the child closer to herself.
Looking at the child that was occupying his space, Maverick clenched his jaw. He waited for a while before peeling Jeslyn away from Valen but the moment he did, Valen mumbled some inaudible words in his sleep and drew closer to Jeslyn again, making Maverick’s effort of separating them to be in vain.
Maverick took a deep breath. He glanced at the two and suddenly curled his lips. He roughly picked up Jeslyn and headed to the door, leaving Valen alone to sleep on Jeslyn’s bed.
His intention was to join them in bed but since they didn’t want him in their midst, he’d gladly be the villain who separates him.
Walking along the corridor with Jeslyn in his arms, he lowered his face and kissed her on the forehead. “I missed you,” he whispered.
Jeslyn turned in his arms, her eyes opened slightly but when she perceived the masculine smell of her husband, she held tightly onto him like her life depended on it.
“Maverick?” she murmured as she tried to make sense of where she was.
“Mmm,” he responded.
Her eyes flew open and an overwhelming feeling of happiness coursed through her veins. “Maverick!” she called a little loudly. “Is this really you?” She touched his cheek and squeezed it a little. He was real!
“You are back!” She screamed.
“Did you miss me?”
“Of course! I missed you so muc–” Before Jeslyn could finish her words, he sealed her lips with his as he fumbled with the lock on his door and carried Jeslyn in.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
Valen awoke to the 6:00 alarm clock. He looked around but his mother was nowhere in sight. He slowly got off the bed and walked to the bathroom. After washing up, still wearing his pajamas, he headed to the door and left for the sitting room. Hoping his mother would be in the kitchen, Valen went there but instead, he met Chef May and her team preparing food.
“Good morning, little Master,” they greeted.
“Where is my mother?”
“We haven’t seen her this morning,” Chef May replied.
Valen turned around and left the kitchen. Today is Saturday, no school but he made an appointment… no, Jeslyn made an appointment with him to visit the playground, so where did she go?
As he left the kitchen, he saw a familiar face, Code 10 speaking to another guard by the window.
If Code 10 is here, then his father is back. So in that case, Jeslyn must have been taken away by his father!
Valen stamped his feet on the tiled floor and started to pace about in the sitting room while darting his eyes to the stair landing every now and then, hoping that his mother would remember she has a little child like him to cater for.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
Some moments later, Valen had changed a few sitting and standing postures and his patience was running thin. Just when he was about to lament again for the umpteenth time, realization struck him.
His parents were together, meaning they might be getting another child soon!!
The bell of urgency rang in his mind and he immediately dashed to the stairs, like someone who was fleeing from disaster.
“Not right now! Not right now… I’m still very young, I don’t need siblings, I don’t want a cute sister!”
While his two little legs were helping him through the stairs, albeit, with little difficulty, Valen failed to see the stranger that just walked into the sitting room from the front door.
“As expected of a cold and heartless person. His living room speaks volumes.” Damien voiced out as he took in Maverick’s sitting room. He sat on the couch and picked up a magazine that was placed on the coffee table.
Flipping through the pages, he saw Emilee. “Oh, she’s become more pretty. How can people look pretty for death? Randy, don’t you think that’s irrational?”
“What is irrational is living in your enemy’s house, Master.”
“What are you afraid of?”
“Master, Alpha Chaos might wake up one day and decide to kill you.”
“Then why do I have you around me? If you can’t even protect me, why are you here…” With his eyes still on the magazine, he read something that made him pause his words.
[ “Damien is a coward, he went into hiding when he couldn’t receive all he dished out. The new Faction we see building will cooperate with the police to bring Damien to Justice for all the atrocities he committed. Thank you, everyone for your understanding.” ]
After reading, Damien suddenly chuckled before it turned into a fit of boisterous laughter.
“Hahahahaha… What a clown. Dumb way to die… Hahahahaha… I thought she was a little smarter than this. Or was she reading a script? Hahaha…” Damien couldn’t get enough of it. He reread the comment a few times and everything, his laughter got louder and louder.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
Upstairs, Valen was standing in front of his father’s door after banging on the door a few times. He narrowed his eyes at the door when nobody seemed to be responding.
Inside the room, Maverick and Jeslyn were tangled up under the sheets, her hair was messy and she was trying to catch her breath from the fierce kiss that she forced herself away from.
“T–the door,” she stated.
“He’ll go back,” Maverick said and got on top of her to continue from where they stopped.
Jeslyn pushed his bare chest, “No, hold on, I need a little bit of rest. I’m…hmm…” her words got muffled when he claimed her lips.
Left with no other choice, she embraced it. It’s been two weeks and a few days, so she understood he was very hungry, same for her. She had missed her husband like crazy, and she wouldn’t mind going five rounds with him, provided she still had the strength.
Valen returned to the sitting room after waiting for so long but to his dismay, his father’s enemy was right there, staring at him as he walked down the stairs.
Valen wasn’t sacred, this was his house but… this guy being here and staring at him like predator sent a chill down his little spine.
“Valen? I finally got to meet Chaos’ legendary rude child. With your aura like your father’s, it is only right you be like him.” He beamed.
“Stop smiling, you look creepy,” Valen said with disgust.
Damien was taken aback before he suddenly laughed out loud. “Reminds me of little Maverick. This was how rude he was when he was your age. Hahahahaha…”
Damien’s words piqued Valen’s curiosity. He wanted to know what his father was like when he was younger, but knowing the man sitting in front of him was an enemy, Valen pretended to not care about his words.
He turned his face away and walked to sit on a single sofa. He was mad that his parents ignored him but since an enemy is here, why not while away time with him?
Damien sat upright with a smile as he watched the small frown that was settling on Valen’s face. “Big kid, what’s your father up to? Why isn’t he here yet?”
“This is not your house, you don’t get to tell us how to live.” Valen glared at him.
“Of course, but your father is irresponsible. He knew he had a guest, why won’t he treat me with respect?” Damien questioned with a raised brow.
“As far as I know, you are my daddy’s enemy that he might be uprooting in a while, so what kind of respect do you need?”
“Ah, is that what your daddy told you? Aren’t you scared that I might be the one uprooting you guys? Hahaha…”
“Maybe when my dad suddenly dies but when he’s alive, you are nothing.”
Damien stiffened for a moment, then he smiled, “that hurts.” It reminded him of the words Maverick said to him back in the day. Hearing something of such nature from Maverick’s son really pierced his heart.
Valen flattened his lips into a thin line. He couldn’t believe that a man like Damien would be so sensitive. “Tsk. Tsk. Tsk… What a sissy.” He scoffed.
Damien stared at the child for a long time, lost for words. This was how Maverick used to make him speechless over the years, still, he hasn’t grown a thick skin to Maverick and now, his son!
“Big kid,” he leaned forward, his face still holding that innocent smile. “Do you know, there are some words you shouldn’t use on people?”
Valen also leaned towards him with a table separating them, he also smiled, “Big daddy, do you know…” he paused to search Damien’s dark orbs.
The killing intent and evil they used to have was nowhere to be found. He had seen a few pictures of this man before. Even though he was laughing, it never reached his bloodthirsty eyes. But this time, it was different. His eyes weren’t giving the villainous look but something between interest and… sorrow? Weird.
“… When you go to people’s houses, you lay low?”
“Hahahaha…” Damien leaned back and rested his back on the couch. “You are such an intelligent kid, I think I like you.”
Valen rolled his eyes without speaking further.
“My Intel said you don’t attend school, why? Are you scared you’ll be abducted again?”
“Actually, with people like you leeching on my family, yes, children like me have to keep it low. If only you’ll learn something from my father and don’t get the kids involved in your fights. I bet you wouldn’t be the head of your family if your parents got the kids from other families abducted or other families abducted you just to win.”
Damien sighed. “You made a point but listen, big kid, if those oldies had gotten us involved, don’t you think that people like your dad and I wouldn’t have been alive now? The Country would have been like other peaceful Countries if your father and I didn’t exist.”
Valen nodded: “You are right but the problem isn’t my father but you.” He smiled when he saw Damien raise a brow. “My father, just like me, does not cause trouble unless angered but you, you are the troublemaker. And that Xu guy, tch, lame!”
“Ah? Hahahaha… why is your father named Chaos if he wasn’t troublesome, just like me?”
“It’s simple because his revenge is always detrimental to the Country.”
Damien nodded. “Don’t you think I have a reason for always going against your father?”
Valen paused. He didn’t think about that, but then, knowing he was 90% like his father, he looked at Damien and returned a question: “Don’t you think your reason was built on a misunderstanding?” Valen narrowed his eyes when he saw Damien had frozen. “My father doesn’t cause trouble but fights back. He had always been like that, from what I heard. Shouldn’t you check yourself and know if you treated him wrongly in the past?”
“Hmm, I never thought of that but now that you mentioned it, the past needs revisiting. However, Big kid, do you think your father will forgive me if it turns out to be a misunderstanding?”
Valen flattened his lips and thought for a while. “It depends on your crimes. I would punish you a little if it didn’t involve making life difficult for my loved ones but if it were about my mother, I won’t spare you … and I think my dad has that mentality too.”
Valen used himself as an example. Since he believes that his father and he were alike, he thought that is what his father would do too.
“… But of course, if he has a little bit of compassion for you, or someone he cherishes pleads on your behalf, he might excuse you of the death penalty, but certainly not a heart-wrenching punishment,” Valen added. That is how much he had grown to understand his father.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
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