Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

His indignation was growing and it almost devoured him.
He slightly curled up his lips and said coldly in a low voice, “Were the words I told you useless?” They couldn’t discern his mood
from his words.
Dolores subconsciously shivered due to the chill.
“Your marriage is just a transaction. You’re not qualified to require her to do anything.” Sampson retorted in a stern voice.
“I’m unqualified. But you’re more unqualified. Trying to snatch other’s wife is not something that a gentleman should do.”
Finishing speaking, he glanced at Dolores who was standing behind Sampson without even looking at him, “I’ll give you one
minute.”
He then headed towards the building.
Sampson turned around to look at Dolores, “Don’t be afraid. I’m by your side. I’ll accompany you to make things clear with him.”
Dolores shook her head. She had done something wrong concerning this matter.
She had promised Matthew last time, but she broke her words.
“No need to accompany me, Sampson. You can come back first. I have to go to work.” Dolores headed towards the building. Yet
Matthew had come upstairs.
Dolores also took the lift to go upstairs.
Standing at the door of Matthew’s office, Dolores calmed herself down and raised her hand to knock on the door.
“Come in.”
She pushed open the door. Just as she was about to explain why she didn’t come back last night, Matthew spoke, “Let’s end this
marriage.”
He looked up at her, “One month is too long. Let’s get divorced now.”
Dolores’ lips were trembling uncontrollably. She once thought that she was a strong and brave woman, but it turned out she was
not.

She was not strong and brave enough, so when she was in danger, she couldn’t save herself.
If the one she accidentally encountered last night was not Sampson, she would have failed to escape.
Maybe she would have been ruined by the person hired by Beulah and Annabelle.
Matthew didn’t want to have any entanglements with her any longer and picked up the landline phone, “Mr. Aaron, please help
me draft a divorce...”
“No...” Dolores rushed over, pressed down the phone, and shook her head at him, “I didn’t do it deliberately. I didn’t come back
last night because I encountered some problems...”
Matthew fixed his gaze on the dress she was wearing and smiled ironically and gloomily, exuding an imposing aura that seemed
to be able to pierce into her body, “I’ll give you freedom so that you can be together with the one you really love, isn’t it good?”
She was wearing a pair of pants and a T-shirt yesterday but got changed into a dress after a night.
How crazy they were last night that even her clothes were ragged and she couldn’t wear them today?
Maybe she was somehow attracting, but she was also wanton.
This kind of woman didn’t deserve his favor.
“No.” Even if they had to get divorced, they couldn’t divorce at present.
If she lost Matthew as her backer, she would have to live at the mercy of others as she did eight years ago.
Matthew stared at her. With astonishment, panic as well as confusion on her face, she was like a bewildered and helpless deer
that had lost its direction. His heart began to palpitate out of the blue. He then sneered. This woman was hooking up with the
other man while trying to maintain the marriage with him?
How ridiculous!
His voice was still cold and aloof, “I will let you go so that you can be together with that man. But you said ‘no’ to this?”
Dolores was extremely perplexed and panicked, fearing that Matthew was really going to divorce her.

She suddenly had a light bulb moment when she thought of his sudden kiss before, without thinking of it, she leaned forward and
kissed him on his lips.
The air surrounding them seemed to be frozen at the moment.
Matthew was dumbstruck for a moment. He looked down at the woman who was kissing him on his lips and forgot how to react.
Although she was promiscuous, she was quite inexperienced in kissing.
He was inexplicably familiar with the kiss, so he didn’t push her away in the first place. But when he finally pulled himself
together, he pushed her away without any hint of hesitation.
Being caught out of the guard, Dolores took two steps backwards because of the force. Her legs buckled as her knees gave out,
and she fell onto the ground. The dress was gathered up and her legs were exposed.
The wounds that had been bandaged opened up and blood was seeping through the gauzes, which looked so striking.
She felt the sharp pain from her knees.
And her body trembled slightly.
Matthew was dumbstruck.
Her legs...
Ignoring the pain on her knees, Dolores picked herself up from the ground and continued to beg him not to divorce her. She
looked into her with begging eyes. “Don’t divorce me, please.”
She was so afraid that she would lose everything again. She had had a hard time getting Randolph’s attention by taking
advantage of the identity as Matthew’s wife, but her efforts would be in vain now.
She was panicked and helpless, which caused her to shed tears.
Matthew walked over, stooped and then tucked up the hemline of her dress. Her knees that were bandaged by white gauzes
were exposed, and the red stains on them were so striking.
Did she get hurt?

His voice bore imperceptible distress and pity for her, but maybe he himself hadn’t perceived it. It was really weird that he would
feel distressed for her when seeing the wounds, “How did you get hurt?”
Dolores wiped off the tears on her face and took the chance to explain, “Yesterday I hailed a taxi to home after getting off work.
But the driver turned out to be hired by someone and tried to set me up. To escape from him, I jumped off the car and got the
wounds. I didn’t mean not to come back. The reason why I was together with Sampson was that he had saved me by chance/”
Matthew didn’t want to admit that his heart was softened when he saw the wounds on her legs.
He stood up and maintained a straight and cold voice, “Do you know who set you up?”
“Beulah Shawn and Annabelle Flores. Because I had married you and they were afraid that I would fight against them relying on
your powers, so they took the initiative to gain the upper hand.”
There was no need to hide this. Her major concern at present was to persuade Matthew not to divorce her.
It turned out the reason why she was unwilling to divorce him was not that she had feelings for him. It was because she was
persecuted by someone.
He inexplicably felt a bit disappointed.
He turned around to face the French windows, leaving her a back that appeared to be lonely, “Is this the reason why you don’t
want to divorce me?”
Dolores didn’t deny it, “The term of our transaction is one month. Wait until the deadline, okay?”
Matthew closed his eyes and furrowed his brows, apparently not wanting to go into this topic. He didn’t say YES or No, instead,
he just ordered in a cold voice, “Get out!”
“I’ll not stay out all night any longer. Mr. Matthew, during our marriage, I will fulfil the duties that a wife should fulfil. Please rest
assured.” Dolores made the promise.
Matthew got impatient and his voice became colder, “Get lost!”
Dolores hesitated for a short while before hobbling out of the room.
When the door of the office was closed, Matthew stroked his forehead and chucked at himself scornfully.

He had lost control of himself because of this lightweight woman!
This had never happened!
He was quite clear that she was not pure or innocent, but he couldn’t help losing control of himself because of her.
Dolores went back to her working position and unwrapped the gauzes. The wounds had opened up and blood was seeping
through the gauzes. She took out the medicine given by Sampson before and scattered it over the wounds. But she didn’t
bandage them again.
As the working time was impeding, the staffs arrived at the office one after another. During the whole morning, Dolores just
concentrated on the translation of the documents quietly. She was so quiet as if there was not such a person in the office. Even
Helen didn’t come to make troubles for her.
At noon, they all came out to have lunch.
Dolores didn’t come with them. She bought a boxed meal and scanned through the document while having lunch in her working
position. Helen had required her to finish the translation within two days. But she just finished half of them, so she was quite busy
with the rest half today.
To prevent Helen from making things difficult for her, she had to complete the translation within the scheduled time.
Helen went to the canteen of the company for lunch together with Matthew, so naturally, they were now coming back to the office
together.
And Matthew didn’t ask about the presence of Dolores.
Thinking of this, Helen felt much better.
She was too emotional back then because she was so nervous when she learnt that Dolores was the girl who spent the night
with Matthew and was pregnant with his baby.
At present, when she had calmed down herself and gave it a thorough thought, she thought Matthew would never be able to
know the truth about that night since the middle-aged woman, the only person who knew the truth, had died.
She just needed to maintain Matthew’s favor for her. As for Dolores, she thought someone would help her get rid of her...