THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 51 – 60
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 53
The only thing he couldn’t get away with is Maverick’s sex appeal and the deadly air around him.
After observing him to this point, Jeslyn regained her composure and said:
“I thought the company would evict you for leaving without a word to anyone.” Her hate for this guy suddenly planted itself in her heart and started to sprout. How dare he try to be her husband!
He smiled, but this time, it wasn’t how Maverick would smile. That gave Jeslyn a moment of relief from the suffocating feeling she was having.
“They already did. They terminated my contract a few minutes ago.”
“Good for you. If you’ll excuse me, I have a business to attend to.” The minute she walked past him, he yanked her back. Jeslyn panicked and a yelp escaped her lips. The pull was too sudden for her to react, so she almost fell, but luckily, he was quick to stop her from falling. With his hand wrapped tightly around her waist, he pulled her to his chest.
Jeslyn almost lost her breath. But by the time she realized what was happening, she was securely in his arms.
“Let me go!!” She yelled and immediately pushed him hard on the chest.
Her push did nothing to him. Instead, he gently pulled her mask down. Jeslyn stiffened. His boldness took her by surprise.
“Your son is too playful… though you’re still very beautiful.” He smiled and put the mask back on for her before letting her go.
“Paah!!!”
The fuming Jeslyn didn’t waste a second before she landed a deafening slap on his face. “How dare you touch me like that?!”
The slap broke the corner of his lower lip. Ruben looked at her with tenderness in his gaze as he cleaned the blood with his tongue. He smiled one more time before he leaned forward, prompting Jeslyn to move back.
That smile sent chills down her spine. She looked around them but no one was in sight except for her car and another black car that was a distance away. ‘Where are my guards,’ she thought they were behind her earlier.
“Don’t be scared, I would never hurt you.” He tried to touch her again but she was quick to invade his creepy hands. If she had a gun or a dangerous object on her, she would have ended his life or given him a fatal injury.
This incident served as a reminder for her to always take a defensive weapon with her, everywhere she goes from now on.
The coldness in her eyes as she stood defensively against him hurt his heart so much that he couldn’t wait around any longer. “Rossa, I will be back.” He whispered and left.
By the time Jeslyn’s guards got there, he had entered his black car and zoomed off.
Code 5 rushed over as asked. She looked extremely angry as she stood by the bar gate. Wasn’t she supposed to be inside the company by now? “Ma’am, are you ok?”
“Where the hell have you been?!” Jeslyn fired a response without holding back her rage.
Code 5 was startled for a second but immediately bowed his head and responded. “There was an accident on the way.”
They were following behind Jeslyn when she left Valen’s school, but after a while, they were blocked by some cars which wouldn’t let them overtake, nor speed off. Because of that, they ended up causing an accident, which was why the guards came to Jeslyn late.
Hearing that, calmness washed over her and she asked with her gaze roaming his body to find blood, “Hope you’re not injured?”
“No, Ma’am.”
She looked in the direction Reuben left, before returning to her car and driving into the company.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 51 – 60
*Meanwhile, at school…*
The kids in grade 9 could be seen drawing with their markers while the teacher walked around in supervision. After they were done, she collected the papers.
Before she left, she instructed, “Your two-hour nap time starts now. Anyone who causes trouble will be duly punished.” Her gaze lingered on Valen and Zack before she walked away.
Valen gazed around the class, the majority of the students were getting ready to take a nap. Mia, on the other hand, stood up from her seat with a mini gift box and walked over to Valen. Standing beside him, she lowered her eyes and stretched the gift with both hands.
“Valen… Yesterday was my birthday. I brought you a cake… Please, have it and wish me a happy birthday.” She sounded nervous and unconfident.
In no time, her drama drew everyone’s attention and her friends came around to stick with her.
Valen looked from the shy Mia to the gift box and said after a long time. “Were you not taught that when someone doesn’t like you, you shouldn’t bother them?”
“Valen?”
“Valen, don’t be rude and cocky! What if you’re the son of Alpha Chaos and Jeslyn? Must you take after your bad father?!” one of Mia’s friends yelled from the side.
“True, his mother is so nice and sweet. My older brothers like her music very much…Too bad he isn’t as nice as his mother!”
“Stop it, you two. Valen is–”
“It’s just a cake, right? Why don’t you accept it? Are you scared?” Zack Lu came over with his friends, portraying the characteristics of a bully.
Valen looked condescendingly at them. “You want to lose some more weight?” Valen smirked.
“You–!” Zack stopped himself from fighting. He didn’t want to end up getting beaten like the other time.
“Coward!” Valen snorted before leaving the classroom.
Mia felt saddened and returned to her seat, so did her friends, who kept on trying to make her feel better.
“Mia, Valen has embarrassed you a lot of times. Why don’t we teach him a lesson? I’m sure he would start respecting you afterwards,” Zack proposed.
“I support that too,” one of Mia’s friends added.
“What are you planning?” Mia asked them. Provided they won’t hurt Valen, but rather make him stop hating her, she’d listen to them.
“Come closer,” the children came together to come up with a plan to make Valen feel sorry and start treating Mia with respect.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 51 – 60
The two-hour nap time was over and the class teacher returned from the meeting she had attended with the other staff. There was no need for her to wake the kids because the school alarm already did.
She waited for about thirty minutes for them to get a hold of themselves before she started calling the monthly register.
The school, although documents everything on the system, is still adept at using traditional registers monthly to track the number of times their students appeared in class in a month.
Their reason for doing so was that, a few years back, a student was caught hacking his class’ system and making sure he always marked himself present, whereas he skips school almost every day. The reason that the junior high schooler wasted so much money to get a hacker was because his grandfather promised to pass on his company to the boy’s younger brother if he skips class again.
The issue caused a lot of trouble for the school, so because of that, they settled for book registers.
Presently, Valen’s class teacher was calling registers and nothing seemed to be wrong until he got to Valen’s name.
She looked up from the Register to see Valen reading a book.
“Valen Lu!”
The young child raised his gaze and looked at her.
“Come out here,” she instructed, pointing to the space in front of her.
Valen got up and trudged to stand in front of her.
“Do you hate to be in school so much?” the class teacher asked.
“I don’t hate to be in school, but hate to be in this class,” he responded.
“So for that, you took things into your own hands?”
Valen had no idea what she was talking about so he stayed silent.
“Answer me, boy!”
“Answer what? You haven’t told me what I’ve done wrong.” Valen stood his ground.
“This–” the lady grabbed the register and pointed at a spot where a black marker was used to erase the column. “This is what you’ve done wrong!”
“How could you conclude that’s my doing?”
“Isn’t it?” She looked at the register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t that your number?!”
“I didn’t say that wasn’t my name. You’re accusing me without proof and it’s wrong!”
The teacher was stunned as she looked at the child, whose hands were inside his pocket. His bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t give her access to see the wild look in his eyes.
“Good. If I find out you are responsible, I’ll make your punishment double. But if I wrongly accused you, then I’ll apologize,” she said.
“Fair enough, but I don’t need an apology. Whoever did it should be transferred to class B. I can’t share the same class with troublemakers anymore.”
The teacher looked at him and nodded. “Fine.” She stood up and yelled, “All of you, bring out your bags and leave them on your desks!”
The teacher went around the classroom, searching their school bags to find a black marker. After searching the whole 50 students, she couldn’t find a black marker. She went back to her desk and said to Valen, “Go bring your bag for me.”
Without words said, Valen went to get his bag. Fatty was all smiles as he watched from his seat. He believed that Valen would be caught red-handed and disciplined for breaking school rules.
Mia bit her lower lip and clenched her uniform. She didn’t want Valen to be punished like the teacher said.
The teacher gently placed Valen’s books on her desk and brought out a black marker. She searched all the smaller parts of the bag but couldn’t find anything.
The woman got angry and slapped the table. She stood up and faced the class. “After the count of three, if you don’t come out here, I’ll ask for the CCTV footage!”
Fatty immediately got up and pointed at Valen, “He did it!”
“You mustn’t lay false accusations.”
“I know because we saw him. Right, everyone?” he asked his friends and they all chorused.
“Yes, we saw him writing in that book with that black permanent Marker he is holding.”
“Permanent marker?” The teacher looked at Valen with a frown. Ever since he came into this class, the boy had been finding ways to get suspended, which is why she can’t trust him fully.
“Valen?” she called.
The child didn’t argue and just grabbed his teacher’s hand. He pulled her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled for a moment that she missed the time to react before the black ink stained her skin.
“What are you doing?” The child ignored her and waited a little for the ink to dry before cleaning the drawing off her arm. Unlike permanent, the drawing was wiped off. Although there was a little stain, it was apparent that the child wasn’t holding a permanent Marker.
“As you can see, it’s not a permanent marker,” Valen said and capped his marker before grabbing his bag.
“Lie! I saw you! You used a permanent tattoo marker to make those things on the register while everyone was sleeping!”
“Good for you, vigilante.” Valen rolled his eyes.
“Zack, how did you know it was a tattoo marker?” the teacher narrowed her eyes on him.
“Because– because I saw it written on the marker!”
“Or because you did it and you are just trying to frame me?” Valen snorted.
“Zack?!” The teacher yelled when he was about to retort.
“I’m innocent. My friends and I were sleeping, you can ask them.”
“Ma’am, how about you search him yourself? He might be hiding the maker with his friends.” With Valen saying this, the teacher went down to search. Lo and behold, she found a black marker, almost identical to Valen’s, under Zack’s desk.
“That’s not mine!” He yelled.
“It’s not mine either,” Valen shrugged.
“You two, if you don’t start talking, I’ll be forced to take you to the principal’s office!” The teacher raised her voice while looking between Valen and Zack. The two kids are the only ones openly giving her trouble in this class.
Valen appears to be unapproachable and trouble-free, but as an observant teacher, she suspects that the boy is no different from Zack who openly causes trouble. If Valen didn’t provoke Zack, would Zack always give him trouble? Valen is not the only one in the class, right? She thought.
“Why bother with such a long process? The class has CCTV cameras installed.” Valen’s intention was very obvious.
At that moment, Mia slowly got up and raised her hand. If they watch the CCTV, she’d be implicated and Valen would dislike her more. So better to come out clean, she thought. “Teacher, Valen is innocent.”
The class turned to look at her, including Zack.
“Mia?” Zack called with narrowed eyes. She wants to betray him!
“Zack shut up! Tell me what you know, Mia, ” The teacher said.
Mia nodded and explained: “I saw Zack with a black marker, exactly that one you’re holding yesterday before we went to the cafeteria. When we returned, I didn’t see the marker anymore. Today, while we were sleeping, Zack went to your table and opened some books but I have no idea if the register was one of them.” She glanced at Valen and lowered her head. This should be enough for him to start seeing her as a good person, right?
“Zack, what do you have to say for yourself?” the teacher folded her arms.
“I plead not guilty! Mia made a false allegation because Valen told her to! I refuse to suffer for anyone!”
“Fine. We’ll see what the CCTV footage says.” The teacher went to her seat and opened her laptop to see, but unfortunately, the CCTV didn’t capture anything because it was broken. She frowned and closed the laptop.
“Anyone else who knows what happened?” she asked the class.
Mia side-eyed her friends and the three girls all testified against Zack.
Seeing that there was no way for Zack to deal with his predicament anymore, Valen decided to use him to throw Mia off his shoulder.
“Teacher, let’s forget it. Zack must have been driven to do it for a reason. I pardon him.”
The lady was elated and smiled. If the deed was done by other students, she wouldn’t have trouble sending them to class B, which is dominated by people with fewer family connections than the Lu family. Class B students are also from wealthy homes, but the difference between them is the number of connections their family has.
So, sending a son of the first branch of the Lu family to such a class might cause the teacher some trouble, but at the same time, she didn’t want to offend Valen’s parents as the drama that Valen’s mother caused the last time was still fresh in their minds.
“That’s so good of you, Valen. It’s good to tender mercy… you, Zack, should learn from Valen. Now apologize to him and–”
“No way! I refuse!!” The little guy fumed and stormed out of the classroom with his school bag.
The teacher sighed. Being a class teacher to rotten kids is harder than getting promotions. She waved Valen off and went to report the matter to the Principal.
Meanwhile, Mia came to Valen after the teacher left to apologize, but unlike usual where he’d say a few words, this time he treated her like air.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 3: CHAPTER 51 – 60
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