THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 32
Today was the third day Brian returned home feeling relaxed, calm, and happy. The servants knew he must have encountered something interesting because he had never been this content for a long while.
The young man entered the house and blessed all the workers with a smile. The servants were scared to get accustomed to their young master’s new behavior for fear that he might just be having mood swings.
Brian’s new behavior didn’t go unnoticed by his parents. Mr. Hwang was quite excited about his son’s happiness but not his wife, Nancy.
She felt that Brian had started communicating with Piper behind her back, and so she sent out people to monitor his every move… her belief wasn’t unfounded. Three days ago, she received a phone call from the communication department stating that someone had made a call out of the city with a burner phone that couldn’t be traced.
She had been keeping watch to know who that person was but failed, so now that her son was unnecessarily happy, it has to be connected, She thought.
Sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, Mr. Hwang’s hardened gaze was on his wife after she made a statement that didn’t go down well with him.
“Ok,” unlike before, Brian didn’t argue or refuse. His response not only shocked his mother but also left Mr. Hwang feeling uncomfortable.
“Are you sure about that?” he asked his son.
“I’m cool with it,” Brian declared.
“Don’t do something you’ll regret, son.” The father was skeptical. He knows his son and understands him well.
“I’d be ok, Dad, I got this,” he smiled faintly at his dad and continued eating.
Madam Nancy cleared her throat and waved the servants away. “I don’t know what you’ve been up to lately, but it’s better not be a scheme to humiliate your bride and her family!” she warned.
Brian chuckled and answered sarcastically. “You’re the almighty, the most feared. Who am I to make you lose face in the presence of the world?”
“It’s good enough that you understand that. I sent your retirement letter to your agency. You are no longer an artist.”
“Nancy!!” Mr. Hwang roared, but the unrepentant woman didn’t feel like she did anything wrong.
Brian’s spoon froze in mid–air before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of food away, and got up to leave.
“Where are you going? You just came back.”
“Somewhere I feel like a human and not some means for business deals and a puppet to be controlled,” He stopped by his father’s seat and hugged his neck before he left the house again. But this time, his spirit was obviously down.
“You must be very excited,” the father said after Brian left.
“Of course, my son has agreed to go on a date with his fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum when I broke the retirement news to him. So why won’t I be excited?” She didn’t even raise her gaze from cutting her grilled turkey bacon.
“Bang!” he slapped the table and roared, “You demon!”
She finally looked up at him and smiled faintly, “You are losing it. Do you need your prescription?”
“You–”
“Shhh… don’t say anything, I understand.” She pushed her seat back and got up, then walked to stand behind him and leaned forward until her lips were close to his ear. “You know I can stop this marriage from happening. I can quell interfering in our son’s life. All you need to do is get me the rainborite Ore or have sex with me… I’m your wife, Hwang Min, and that will forever be the truth.” she whispered.
“I’d rather seek pleasure in a prostitute than come to you. You’ll forever be rusty down there without me to make you feel like a woman, Nancy Rong.”
Nancy’s face changed, and she moved away.
Hwang Min looked at her disdainfully before he snorted and continued, “You are not and will never be fit to have me inside you. Whatever brought about Brian’s existence was a mistake you know too well… Nancy, you thought only my life would be ruined when you created the misunderstanding that drove her away?” He shook his head and continued eating his meal.
The vegetables suddenly taste more delicious after breaking her with his words.
Nancy gritted her teeth and balled her fist so tight that she could feel her nails hurting her palm. “I’ll make you beg to have me but then, it will be too late.” She turned and stormed out of the dining room.
After she was gone, the man stopped eating and looked in the direction she left. He picked up his phone and called someone.
“Have you found her?” he asked.
“S– sir, she has entered the city,” came the fearful voice of the other person.
Hwang Min’s eyes dilated and he immediately bounced up from his seat. “Where is she?!”
“We are on it. She is hiding too well sir.”
“Find her before my wife’s people do… be discreet.”
“Yes, sir!”
The man left the dining room after that.
Meanwhile, inside Nancy’s bedroom, the woman who didn’t change much from how she was 26 years ago when she approached Christine’s father and demanded that Jeslyn be killed, slammed her phone on the bed after making a call.
“She can’t be found? Huh?… Alex you aren’t tired of this hide-and-seek game? I’ll fetch you out from wherever you are hiding!” She walked to her wardrobe and opened a hidden compartment, then brought out a burner phone and called someone.
“Why is the almighty calling me?” an advanced woman’s voice sounded from the other end.
“I give you five hours to tell me where Alex is,” Nancy said curtly.
“After 27 years, your first call is to threaten me?”
“1 hour.”
“Nancy!”
“30 minutes!”
“Fine, hold on, we can resolve–”
“20 minutes!”
“Alright!! withdraw your men from my territory after I tell you where she is.”
“You are not in any position to make a bargain with me. If after 10 minutes you don’t tell me what I want to know, I promise you, your half–heart organization will be crumpled!”
“Don’t go too far!… Alex is in your city. Where she is exactly is what I don’t know.” the voice let out.
“Why did she come here?”
“You think I’d tell you if I knew–”
Nancy ended the call and kept away her burner phone before she called one of her men, “I want you to find someone.”
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
Although THE SIN belongs to Nancy, under the watchful eyes of her husband, she cannot blatantly do what she wishes. The only handle she has against Mr. Hwang Min is his love for Brian and Alex.
If those two were out of the picture, Hwang Min would have long gotten rid of her. That stubborn man doesn’t care about anything, including his life, when it comes to protecting his loved one.
If he finds out Nancy has gotten Alex’s location, he won’t stand by and watch her kill the love of his life. That is why Nancy had been using a burner phone so her husband wouldn’t know what she was up to.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
After Brian left the house, he went to the car race competition wearing a nose mask. Even though he was wearing a mask, his fans still knew it was him. However, they didn’t approach him because of the statement he made on his chatme timeline.
Before Brian returned to Sin City, he announced he’d be taking some time off to live like an average human and didn’t want fans or companies interrupting his leisure time.
Brian’s fans respected him a lot for that, they don’t bother him whenever they see him in public. Instead, they stay at a distance and take pictures of him.
Fearless Entertainment hasn’t made any official news regarding Brian’s retirement, which is why the fans were still so calm.
Thanks to the pictures the fans took of Brian that were posted online, the car race competition got a free promotion, and millions of people worldwide got interested in watching.
What the fans didn’t know was that, while taking pictures of Brian, they forgot to crop out the woman sitting beside him and sometimes laughing as she and Brian talked.
Had they known that those innocent pictures would be the beginning of trouble for their beloved Brian.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
*At a golf course…*
Nancy had just finished playing golf with an elderly man when a guard walked up to her and whispered something in her ear.
She nodded slightly and stretched out her hand for the guard who gave her a few pictures.
Looking at them, they were pictures of Brian and Pink, laughing and looking harmonious.
A slight frown caressed her brows. She knew Pink. She is Alpha Chaos’ number-one hitman, the most feared member in the Lu faction.
“What is she doing around my son? Is Chaos making a move on me because I attacked his rainborite Ore?” she raised a brow as she stared at the photo.
“I have no idea–”
“I never asked your opinion,” she side–eyed the guard with so much attitude, like she was above everyone else in the world.
The man lowered his head and didn’t speak further.
“Send a few men to see what Alpha Chaos is up to… as for Pink, it’s her fault for entering my den. Bring her to me,” she ordered.
“Yes, Ma’am!” The guard left afterwards.
Nancy glanced at the old man she was playing golf with and smiled faintly, “Shall we?”
The old man nodded as the two walked forward and entered a separate two-seater cart to tour the place. Behind them were another two carts with their bodyguards in them.
Some miles away, the carts stopped at the foot of a hill. Nancy, the old man, and the guards got down and strolled up the hill while beating time with casual talks.
Standing at the top of the hill, their sight beheld the largest cocoa farm they’d ever seen in their lives. It covered more than ten million acres of land.
The old man and his men were beyond themselves as their eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Before they could process what they were seeing, Nancy’s voice rang.
“This is the life and death contract. Take, sign it.”
The old man turned to look at her, and his brows furrowed. “What do you mean, Mrs. Hwang?”
“I didn’t tell you this before, but now, I’m doing so. Sign this document and I’ll be relieved to work with you.”
The old man collected the document and started reading. The more he read into it, the more ugly his face became.
“You mean that if a word about this farm is spoken, you’ll hold me and my family responsible? What if you or your men tell a person who betrays you?”
“You don’t have to worry about that, just sign it,” she said.
“I can’t do it. Let’s call it off.”
“You mean you’re no longer interested?” she raised a brow.
“Yes, what you ask for is too risky. The mistake might be from your end, and then–”
“I understand. You can go,” she uttered uninterestedly.
The old man and his men started walking down the hill, but the next moment, three gunshots were heard, taking down the old man’s three bodyguards at once.
The man gasped and immediately looked behind him. Never did he expect Nancy to dare do this.
“Mrs. Hwang, what are you doing?!”
Nancy was still watching her farm with admiration. Once the plant has reached the harvest stage, she’ll become invincible!
“Bring him up here,” she ordered the two guards that came with her.
The guards went down to bring the old man up the hill.
“Why do you think I’m so successful?” she finally turned to observe the old man.
“You don’t intend to kill me? Right?” the man glared at her.
“Wrong, you are the senator of Country G, and Killing you might cost me some headache.”
He was relieved when he heard that. Even though Country M is a giant and THE SIN is the most feared faction, it doesn’t mean that Nancy can kill off a government official from another country at will. Doing so might trigger a war between the two countries, so he thought.
“Then what?!” he questioned.
“Nothing. I want you to go down there and see how my workers are doing.” Before the old man could look at her, she pushed him down the hill and listened as he screamed his lungs out.
After a few minutes of falling, the old man landed inside a hole with a loud ‘thud’ and grunted in pain. However, before he could turn, he heard a huffing and growling sound behind him.
Just as he turned his head to see what that was, he came face to face with a black figure standing on fours. Its red eyes, long and sharp fangs told of its savagery.
Before the old man could let out a fearful scream, the huge animal pounced on him and sank its fangs into the man’s neck, and bit off a chunk of flesh before gnawing on him.
On the hill, Nancy looked into the distance and articulated, “Take care of the Senator’s remaining guards and handle the matter well… Another thing, make sure the world knows they left Country M before they died…” she instructed.
“Yes, Ma’am!” The two guards bowed before they brought out their phones to make the calls. Even though they weren’t told what to do, they’ve been her personal bodyguards ever since she was 20, so they know what she wanted them to do.”
One of the guards called their men at the golf course home– a building where they rest before and after playing golf.
The Senator’s men, numbering around ten, were waiting there for the return of their boss, but what greeted them after the knock on the door was the sound of gunshots and bullets flying into their flesh.
The other call went to an underground dungeon where about 13–15 men were dressed and made to look like the Senator and his men. The men were featured on the News and watched by tens of thousands of citizens worldwide as they were escorted to the airport by Country M’s security personnel.
After they left on their private plane, about ten hours later, the news of an explosion swept the media houses. The reason for the plane’s explosion was that, ‘pilot and his co-pilot had an argument which led to the mishandling of the plane.’
Nobody thought or knew that Nancy killed the Senator and his men.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
Some hours before the Senator died, Hwang Min was with some businessmen, discussing when a guard walked out to receive a call, and when he returned to the private booth, he whispered something into the man’s ear before showing him the images on his phone.
Hwang Min zoomed in on Pink before a slight frown greeted his face, but composed himself and adjourned the meeting. There may be a reason the blood-thirsty Pink would show up around his son. He thought.
Left with his guards in the booth, the one who brought the pictures spoke, “Master, she is Pink, Alpha Chaos’ number one hitman.”
Another added, “The Holy Son sent his best hitman to befriend the Young Master. I’m certain they are making a move because of what Madam did. Should we inform Madam and–”
“Bang!”
Hwang Min shot the guard in-between his brows and watched him die with shock and disbelief on his face.
The other guards were alarmed but stayed focused. Recently, their Master had been killing his men like a nutcase, but no one knows why.
Unbeknownst to them, Hwang Min had been slowly getting rid of his own men that showed a tendency of worshiping Nancy.
Nancy is his greatest enemy. Although they are married, that was never in his thoughts. After marrying him, she took advantage of the love he has for his beloved and wrapped him around her finger. As if that wasn’t enough, she planted people around him and also started monitoring his phone calls and messages.
Although he did the same to her, now that he had decided to fight for his son’s happiness, he began by filtering his own me out… they will keep getting killed without knowing what their mistakes are until he is sure all her spies are dead.
“Find out what she’s doing here,” he instructed while staring at the picture.
“Yes, Boss,” one of the guards bowed before leaving.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
Brian and Pink were busy cheering loudly for their teams without knowing Pink had been made a target.
“It seems I’ll win this bet, dear Pink.” Brian beamed.
“Don’t be so certain, the game is still on.” she refuted.
“Hahaha… Jeremy House is ahead…!”
“Yo!! Bleach House is ahead now! Go bleach! Go bleach!!” Pink screamed at the top of her voice, soliciting deep-throated laughter from Brian.
“Do you find me attractive?” Pink slowly turned her head to look at her son, then smiled.
Coincidentally, the camera zoomed in on them and captured the beautiful smile. Mr. Hwang Min, who just happened to switch to the channel on his iPad, got a shock as an electrifying sensation ran through his veins.
Memories of Alex’s genuine smile flashed past his mind, forcing him to compare both ladies subconsciously.
“Turn the car around,” he commanded.
“Yes, sir!” the chauffeur, one of his most trusted men, did as told.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
Brian cleared his throat and looked away, “Think of me as your son telling you, ‘Mom, you look attractive and very gorgeous.'”
Pink felt that. Her heart moved, and her eyes stung. She turned her face to the other side and quickly wiped away a tear before she flashed Brian a smile again.
“You have eyes for good clothes. Why don’t you open a fashion house?” she joked.
“I have one in the Capital, but it’s a secret.”
“And you told me?”
“Hm, I have a gut feeling you won’t harm— Yah!! I won!!”
The stadium erupted in a loud cheer as someone from Jeremy’s house overtook a member from Bleach’s house, whose car somersaulted a few meters away from the finish line, allowing the Jeremy guy to be at the front.
There was no way another car would outrun the Jeremy guy at this point, which was why Brian and the rest of the fans supporting Jeremy’s house hollered in excitement.
“Older sister, I won the bet, my money!… Hahaha!”
Brian’s joy rubbed off on Pink as she chuckled. “Agreement is an agreement. I’ll send the $20,000 now.”
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 31 – 40
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