Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

"Ah, take it easy bro, thats a life we are talking about," Rex smiled.

"Should have known better than to jump into the road when the cars are moving." He said with zero feelings.

Rex sighed. He turned to the driver and asked: "Man, why aren you moving?

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"Young master, the crazy woman is banging on the window. " The driver reported.

"Then give her a few seconds, " Rex said while looking at his brother and sighed in relief when he said nothing.

The driver wound down the glass to ask what the problem was when the womans pitiful voice spoke.

"Please sir, can you give me a lift? Im heading to the Rose Cemetery.

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"Sorry maam, we are heading to the airport, " Rex answered. He wanted to yell at her, but that pain-filled voice pulled at his heart string. "Let her in."

"Huh?" Rex asked in confusion.

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"The driver was lost.

"Brother, you..."

"Let her into the car. You got a problem with that?" He raised his brow at Rex.

"N-no, no, of course, not. Hehehe... " Rex laughed sheepishly.

"Thank you," Jeslyn got into the front passenger seat with her hair looking like a birds nest with her face looking pale like a sick person. She looked nothing like the infamous celebrity many people knew in Rose City.

"Hmm," he answered her, leaving Rex in bewilderment. This is interesting, he thought.

She was supposed to look back at the people behind, but due to how desperate to get to the funeral she was, coupled with the confusion and disbelief she was in regarding everything that has been happening since her wedding day, she didn care to look.

After a while, the car became silent, too silent for Rexs liking so he decided to scroll over the entertainment news. He loves gossip and loves to make some if there was none, so the minute he saw the glaring headline of a popular singer in Rose city trending, he couldn help but laugh out loud.

"Wow, this is by far the most interesting trouble this sensational celebrity has caused ever since her debut. She abandoned her 5 years fiance for her cheating partner at the altar and married another, then killed her grandfather because he was disappointed in her for ruining the familys name and destroying her innocent fiances life.

Now, the grandfathers funeral is being held and shes absent. Hahaha...what a wicked soul!... Hmmm... let me see what the comment section is like...

hahaha... I thought as much, shes being chewed alive... oh, this commenter is saying some weird things.

Ah? Why are these commenters diverting from the main topic? It is obvious they were paid for this shit. This is not genuine, I should scroll past. "

The groom snatched the phone from Rex and scrolled through the comment. Seeing the weird abominable comments, he frowned slightly and raised his gaze to look at the girl in front but found out she was focused on the billboards by the side of the road.

He closed the app Rex was on and kept the phone by his side.

"Uhm, thats my phone, can you please return it?"

He looked at Rex and then glanced at the phone before he wound down the tinted window and threw the phone out, then closed his eyes and rested his head on the headrest.

Rex stared wide-eyed at him. Whats wrong with this devil? That phone was just custom-made and sent to him yesterday!

Even though his eyes had started to bore holes into the villain, he refused to spare him a glance.

"Even though you threw my phone away, I have already seen everything. It says that the D-list celebrity, Jeslyn Lee killed her grandfather because—"

At the mention of her name, Jeslyn who had not been paying attention to the people sitting in the back seat peeked her ears. On hearing the words that followed, she didn know how she found the strength to go against her weak mental state and responded.

"Mister, I appreciate the fact that you were kind enough to give me a lift, Ill be alighting from here, thank you... stop the car. " She said to the driver.

The groom who had his eyes closed all these while suddenly opened his eyes when he heard her words.

The minute the car was stopped, he turned to look at Rex and ordered, "get out."

"Huh?" Rex who heard the words turned his gaze from the lady sitting in the front seat to the man sitting beside him.

He had thought his brother was telling the lady in front to get out but was stunned when he met those emotionless eyes. Not that his eyes ever held emotions though.

"Thank you for the ride," Jeslyn said from the front seat as she was unbuckling her seat belt.

"Not you, young Miss. Rex, get down."

Jeslyn was taken aback by that voice. She had heard that voice somewhere but can recollect where she heard it from. Her mind was still clouded and in total disarray with all the chaos in her life that she couldn make her mind to focus.

She turned to look at the person but couldn see much as the car was dark and he had his eyes closed with the back of his head resting on it.

"Brother, you want me to get down?" Rex pointed at himself.

"Hmm, now.

"In the middle of-'

"You want me to pull you out?" He asked with a curved brow.

"Hehehe... of course not, Ill get down, Ill get down. " Rex swallowed his sorrow and opened the car door.

The car zoomed off before he even got to close the door and he was very sure it was the command from that demon.

Inside the car, Jeslyn sighed and said: "Thank you, mister, but you really didn have to do that. That place is dangerous and there have been multiple reports of bad things happening there lately. " "Hell be fine." He uttered with his eyes closed.

"Oh," she answered and shut her mouth. She looked out the window to see if she could see him but couldn.

The black car stopped at a cemetery and from where the car stood, they could see people in black standing in front of a grave.

"Thank you, mister. " Jeslyn offered her thanks and got out of the car and started to run unsteadily towards the people.

The driver was about to start the car when he heard that emotionless voice.

"Hold on.

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the video before literally shoving the phone into Jeslyns face.

Jeslyn subconsciously rescued the phone from falling while coincidentally seeing the footage.

What drew her attention was her old man. Teardrops slowly fell from her eyes and dropped on the screen.

All that was being said or scripted in the video didn get to her. She wasn even hearing any of it as all her attention was focused on her old man.

She brushed the phone with her fingers, outlining his figure and suddenly she jolted when the lady on the screen that looked like her pushed the old man who fell back and hit his head on the side of the coffee table.

"Grandfather!" She screamed, at the same time, dropping the phone to the floor.

"Officers, arrest her!" Christine said to the policemen that just walked over.

"Miss, please come with us to the police station. " Said one of the policemen.

"I didn kill my grandfather, he was poisoned, ask the doctors. Christine, I did nothing to grandfather.

Christine chuckled in rage. "What doctors? Is it the ones you bribed? Unfortunately for you, the doctors testified against you. They told the police that you urged them to cremate grandfather the minute he was pronounced dead to hide what really caused his death and you also forced him to diagnose you with fake mental health issues..."

"Thats not true! Stop lying!

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"I didn lie against you, sister, those were the doctors statements in the station. "

"Where are the doctors, tell me, they- "

"Its unfortunate because the two doctors committed suicide out of guilt.

"W-w- what are you talking about?" Her heart dropped to her stomach when she heard that. How was she going to prove her innocence now?

"You heard me. You killed two innocent workers too! Officer, take her away." Christine turned her face away in disgust as the policemen tried to force the resistant Jeslyn out of the crowd.

"Let her go." The voice wasn loud, nor was it low. However, it was able to stop the commotion.

The people turned to look at him. He pulled the policemans hand away from Jeslyns wrist and said: "Ill bring her. "

Jeslyn raised her misty eyes to look at the man in front of her and slowly recalled he was the man she got married to.

She wasn the only one who remembered who she was. Those present that attended the wedding last week knew this man because of his outstanding appearance and the suppressed air around him. "I-its you?" Jeslyn asked like she didn expect him to be here.

"What are you doing here?!" Ray, who hasn said anything since finally spoke up when he saw this man again, his enemy.

The groom ignored everyone else and held Jeslyn by the wrist as he walked her out of the crowd with the policemen following behind them and camera lights flashing after them.

The crowd watched as the man and Jeslyn got into a black inconspicuous car parked not far away and Ray suddenly laughed.

It wasn clear why he was laughing, but he murmured: "The last time he wasn wearing custom-made, nor branded clothes. This time also he is still wearing an unknown brand and even a rickety car. I was right, he only has that superior air and nothing else."