THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 61 – 70
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 63
When it was Celestine’s turn, she pulled Jeslyn into a hug and said: “Jeslyn, my talented student, I’m proud of you. I hope that you soar higher than me.”
“Teacher flatters me, I’ll try to not disappoint you.” Jeslyn smiled.
“You’ve met them all,” she shifted her gaze to Maverick and others. “I forced them here. Some of them didn’t attend my debut and they owed it to me, so as my first student to debut, I asked them to come and pay their debts.”
When everyone heard this explanation, some sighed in relief and others immediately accepted; it was a feasible explanation. However, those who knew the truth rolled their eyes.
Manager Kate sighed. That was a relief but why did Maverick shake Jeslyn? That was a question she won’t be getting an answer to today.
In all this drama, the person who was equally shocked and couldn’t help herself when she saw the big shots was Lolita!
Kill her, but she would never have believed that she would be seeing her long-time crush among those attending Jeslyn’s debut today. She’s also one of the many that felt Jeslyn was directly connected to the big shots.
But that would rest for now because, at this moment, she’s about to start her pursuit of her dream man.
After the event ended and people were starting to leave, Lolita didn’t wait for Jeslyn like she promised and ran after Matt. She knew he was a doctor and doctors cared about lives, so the only way to get his attention was to need the help of a physician in a place where only he is the available doctor. Hehe, brilliant!
“Excuse me!” Lolita started to hurry towards them with her phone held to her ears, pretending like she was talking to someone on the phone.
“What do you mean?! My upcoming debut?! Ok, I’ll be there in a jiffy!” She ran past Maverick and his friends and just a little distance away from them, she let out an ear-piercing shrill.
“Ahhhh!” She fell with a loud thud.
Celestine sighed, having an inkling of what had happened to her. She’s a lady who wears heels too, so she understands perfectly well. “Lolita, why aren’t you behaving like a lady? What are you in haste for?”
“Teacher?!” Lolita had no idea that Celestine was inside one of the cars in the park, if not she would have been more careful. “It hurts, my ankle hurts.” She burst into tears. Both from embarrassment and the fear that her plans failed and her crush will be slipping away too.
Celestine chuckled and shook her head. Her three students are weirdos. “Rex, check on her.”
“I’m not a doctor, why should I check on her? Matt, you should check on her, it’s your profession after all.” Rex said.
Matt didn’t even spare Rex a glance before he opened his car door and was about to get in when Celestine stopped.
“Don’t be a jerkass. She’s my student.”
Matt paused. He was mad at Rex and Celestine but couldn’t say no to her, so he shifted his gaze to Lolita who was wearing a long off-shoulder black gown and gestured to one of his men to bring her into his car.
Lolita’s heart bubbled with excitement but her face looked pained with sweat on her forehead because she twisted her ankle for real.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 61 – 70
*In an unknown location…*
Pink is seen staring at the large TV on the wall. Seeing Jeslyn being surrounded by reporters battling to interview her, Pink smiled faintly and wiped the blood off her face with the back of her right hand which was holding a silver gun.
“Child, keep soaring while I uproot the obstacles off your path.” She lowered her gaze to the dead lady on the floor and curled her lip into a sneer.
“Don’t you intend to tell her? She’s no longer a child.” Yellow asked this question again while searching for something in the dead lady’s bag. Not being able to see what she was looking for, she poured the content of the bag onto the center table.
“Not yet, she needs to stabilize herself and build influence… She’ll need all the help she can get.” Pink replied.
Yellow nodded. “Found it,” she took a small flash drive from the things on the table and passed it to Pink. “What should we do to her body?”
“Set the house on fire. She died in a fire accident that originated from the kitchen.”
“Ohk…” Yellow chuckled.
In no time, the brown building that was standing alone in the middle of nowhere was seen burning furiously in the open.
Inside the car running through the quiet road, Yellow smiled: “Three spies down, two more to go.”
“Hmm.”
“So, where are we going now?” Yellow asked with her eyes on the road.
“To the fourth spy,” Pink replied.
The half-heart organization sent spies after Jeslyn. If not for Diana who alerted her on time, she would have been done for.
“Alex, the sky is gathering storm and for the first time, I’m scared of the tough times ahead.” Yellow turned her head to look at Pink who was looking out the window of the front passenger seat.
“Whatever the storm brings, it won’t touch my family unless it kills me first.” She shifted her gaze back to Yellow. “Don’t be scared, you have a long life ahead of you.”
Yellow turned to look at the road. “You know, when I first saw Jeslyn in prison, she was so innocent that I wanted to give up everything to shield her from this world.” She smiled. In a flicker of an eye, her smile turned bitter… “Who would have thought she was directly connected to this world of ours?”
Pink rested her head on the seat and closed her eyes, then she heard Yellow’s question.
“Who is her father?”
Pink slowly opened her eyes but didn’t reply.
“I thought as much… this is the third time I’m asking.”
“She has no father,” Pink replied.
“Ha, it seems you both parted on bad terms. I’ll be waiting for you whenever you wish to open up.”
Pink changed the topic. “I heard she made her first kill.”
“Yeah, so I heard too… She killed her son’s teacher without flinching. Alex, your daughter is a monster. Hahahaha…”
“She lives with a heartless demon and her parents are evil people too, so it’s natural.” She said lazily.
“Indeed.” Yellow nodded.
There was gloom hovering inside the car and with their sad conversation, it felt like an important person will be dying soon.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 61 – 70
“At Madam Caroline’s house…*
Piper walked downstairs from her room and went to get a slice of cake from the fridge before she came back to sit in front of the TV.
She had involuntarily seen Jeslyn’s news on her phone a while back in her room. No one can avoid not seeing Jeslyn’s news right now because she is the hottest trending topic right now, so a lot of people are bound to know about her.
Jeslyn’s success is indeed hateful. Although Piper no longer has malicious intentions towards Jeslyn anymore, she knows that with this success comes heavy hatred and jealousy. Especially now that a lot of smart people have started guessing what Jeslyn and Maverick’s relationship is.
It was better that they didn’t reveal who Jeslyn really was, else, in a few days, news of her death would have been the next trending topic.
Good thing Celestine immediately lied. Even though she had been on top of the chain for many years, Celestine still remembers how toxic and dark the entertainment industry is.
While eating and watching what was being shown on the news channel she was watching, she sneered.
On the news was one of the Lus talking about his expectations of seeing Maverick back in the family soon.
“This family seems to be living under a rock like my mother. They think they can force my brother to do whatever they want… Tsk. Tsk. Tsk… So dumb.”
She took another bite from the piece of cake and drank some juice.
“Hmm, the Lu family might win this time because of my brother’s wife.” She frowned. Remembering what Jeslyn did for her, she felt a sudden pang of guilt which disrupted her happy mood.
She heard that Jeslyn was the one who spoke to Maverick and forced him to give her blood. Ever since then, she stopped hating Jeslyn and felt grateful. But because of pride, she hadn’t gone and thanked Jeslyn.
“Should I go? Won’t she disdain me? She might think that I’m finally coming to thank her after seeing her potential, isn’t it?” With the spoon covering her lips, she shook her head.
“I heard she’s a nice person, so she won’t treat me that way, right?… Forget it, I’ll see her tomorrow at a quiet place, with that, there’ll be little to nobody around if she decides to get angry and embarrass me.”
Piper took her phone from the couch beside her and called her manager.
“Fina, please arrange a meeting with Jeslyn for me… tomorrow. Thank you.” She dropped the phone afterwards and smiled, thinking about the expression that would be on Manager Sarafina’s face right now.
Indeed, Manager Sarafina was astonished to hear Piper tell her thank you and please!
The last thing anyone would expect from Piper was the use of those keywords. Even though she has been quite the gentle and nice lady these days, that doesn’t mean that her rude and narcissistic personality doesn’t flare up once in a while, so Manager Sarafina made sure to not fall too deep for Piper’s recent changes.
Not long after, Madam Caroline barged into the sitting room with a tabloid and threw it at Piper.
“Didn’t I warn you to stay away from that pauper? What is the meaning of this?!”
Piper took the newspaper. On the front page was a photo of her and Brian, kissing. Her grip on the tabloid tightened but remembering that her mother was still there, she folded it in two and gently placed it beside her juice on the table.
“That’s a scene from the movie, what are you getting mad about?” She rolled her eyes.
“Piper, I dare you to lie to me one more time! Is that pauper the reason you refused to go out with Feng Long? Is he?!” She yelled.
“Mom, please! Don’t start this today, I’m exhausted and need some rest.” She got up with her cake and juice, ready to leave but her mother wouldn’t let her.
Madam Caroline slapped the plate of cake away from Piper’s hold and the shattering sound of the plate reverberated in the quiet sitting room.
“Mom, what exactly do you want? Haven’t you done enough? You played my life to whatever angle that pleased you, isn’t that enough? I’m not a child anymore, Mom, please! let me live my life on my own terms!”
“What life are you talking about? The one I gave you?! Do you know what that boy is?…” Piper cut her off. She had heard the last line for five years and already knew where she was going.
“He’s a pauper like you kept saying– Although he was able to attend the same school as me; a wealthy heiress. And Mom, don’t you think you are being too much?…” She withheld the ugly words that were about to roll out of her tongue.
What pauper attends one of the best schools in Country M? Schools in Country M no longer dare to give scholarships after some scholar students were killed by some rich brats who felt they were being insulted.
Even though Brian’s origin is unknown, he was far from being a poor person but Madam Caroline doesn’t want to see that. The only person she wants her to be with was Feng Long because his family was influential and has something that she desperately needs.
Once Madam Caroline gets her hands on what she wanted, she would throw the Feng family away like she always did.
Madam Caroline took a deep breath to force her angry heart to calm down. “Go in there, change out of this casual nonsense, put on something to make you look ravishing, and head out to go meet Feng Long.”
“Haha, Mom, sometimes, I wonder if I’m merely a toy for your progress.” She closed the space between them and touched her mother’s chest. “Is there still a healthy heart in there?…” She pulled her hand back and fought the tears that were seducing her eyes.
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