Chapter 6


    ”Hmm… that woman, Alice remained a bitch even to her death! ” It was clear that thedy on the video


    was upset about Jeslyns mother.


    ”Thats why her husband hated her… so, why did you call me here? Don tell me its only to have a taste


    of me, ” Ray said.


    ”That aside. Young Miss said that thest dose of the poison has been administered to old man Lee


    and he won have much time to live anymore, so our n to get rid of that idiot after taking the


    properties from her will be a smooth sailing, ” Thedy replied.


    ”Thats good, and his properties, did he give a share to young Miss Christine? ”


    ”He willed it all to Jeslyn, stating she can only get them after she got married. ”


    ”Why do they all want her to get married before getting the inheritance? Im so tired of hearing that! That


    stupid rule is the reason Im having issues with the love of my life right now and also, why is that idiot so


    lucky? She got all her mothers inheritance and now, her grandfathers. What about Christine? Is she not


    their daughter too? How do they expect Jeslyn to manage the empire of the richest man and woman in


    Rose city? Is that old man senile? ”


    ”As if you don know how careless and simple Jeslyn wants to live her life. She thinks shes a princess,


    so I bet they were scared that shell be cheated out of her properties if she didn have a husband to


    support her…ironic! ”


    ”Ironic indeed. I wonder what her grandfathers face would look like when he finds out Im one of those


    enemies he had been trying to tell Jeslyn about. Hahaha… ”


    The phone slid off Jeslyns hold after watching that video. Her world shook and everything in it tumbled.


    She stood up and tried taking a step to the door but she fell against the coffee table. Her head felt


    heavy and her eyes turned blurry.


    ”No, Ray cannot do this to me. They are lying about everything, it must be a prank. Grandfather, my


    grandfather. ”


    She murmured to herself even though she was suffering. She wanted to get up to go check up on her


    grandfather but she couldn stand properly as the world was spinning under her legs and her eyes were


    also starting to dim.


    Just when she was thinking of calling her assistant or grandfather, the door clicked open and someone


    walked in. It was ady, but she couldn see her clearly. She was wearing a ck off shoulder dress.


    Thedy stood In front of her. Jeslyn could only see her mouth moving, but heard no sound. She


    struggled to stand on her feet with the support of the bed and tried to read thedys lips but her


    unfocused blurry eyes were bastards.


    Her sight started to go dimmer and dimmer, solidifying her belief that she was drugged.


    Thedy lowered herself and got back up with something like a phone. Yes, that should be her phone,


    but before she could make sense of what thedy wanted with her phone, her world turned dark and


    she felt herself falling.


    When she woke up a whileter, the truth she just discovered rushed back into her mind and the first


    thing she wanted to do at that moment was to call off the wedding.


    But what happens to her mothers will? Her grandfathers will can still be changed, but her mothers can


    ? Will her grandfather even have enough time to change his will before anything happens to him?


    Because in the video, they didn specify when the poison would ruin her grandfather.


    Calling the cops will require enough evidence, but what if they im the evidence she has was


    fabricated? Shes a celebrity and has seen lots of such things happen in the entertainment industry.


    So the only idea that stuck to her confused brain at that moment was to get married, but definitely not


    to Ray. Even a janitor, or a waiter would do, until shes able to sort things out.


    She picked up her phone and left the room while crying along the way. It was like luck wasn on her side


    because after walking through the corridors of her hotel room, she didn find anyone until she saw him,


    that weird maning out or entering the restroom.


    She didn care if her words would sound desperate or if she was making the wrong decision, however


    all she wanted at that moment was to solve one of the biggest problems, so she shamelessly proposed


    to him, ignoring the weird air surrounding him.


    …


    After hearing his granddaughters story, old man Lee was so furious that he yelled. ”That bastard!! I


    will– ”


    The old man frowned in pain and wed his chest. ”Argh! ” He cried out. ”Puff! ” He coughed out ck


    blood which got onto Jeslyns wedding dress.


    ”G– grandfather, grandfather! ”


    Jeslyn rushed to support the old man who was slowly going down with his side.


    ”Grandfather, help! ” She screamed while looking around the quiet and empty sitting room.


    Her assistant was here a while ago, why isn she here now? She didn have the time to think of why the


    servants and guards that kept patrolling around the sitting room on other days like they were moths


    attracted to me could not be found anywhere today.


    ”Somebody help me!!! ” She continued to scream but no one came.


    The old man kept coughing out ck blood. He slowly raised his shaky hands to his granddaughters


    cheeks and used a finger to wipe her tears. The stubborn old man who had never cried for decades felt


    hot tears sliding down his cheeks as he looked at his poor granddaughter screaming her lungs out for


    help.


    He knew help wone because the servants and guards in the house have been bought. He just


    found out a few days ago that he had been living with a deadly poison in his body when he started to


    cough out ck blood.


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    He called his doctor to the house and his doctor told him he was only stressed and that nothing was


    wrong with him. The old man didn believe his doctor and that was when he started to suspect that


    enemies were lurking around them.


    econds. She would stand up and pace around for a while then return to her bench to sit.


    Her exercise continued like that for five hours until the operation room door dinged open.


    She rushed to the doctors who walked out with their nose masks on and asked in a frantic voice:


    ”Doctor, how is my grandfather? ”


    The doctor sighed and shook his head, ”Im sorry, young Miss, your grandfather couldn make it. The


    poison had destroyed his organs and… Miss Jeslyn! ”


    The doctors immediately supported her limp body before she touched the floor and helped her into a


    VIP room.


    Jeslyn opened her eyes to a white room and heard a beeping sound. She turned to her right where the


    beeping sound wasing from and saw the monitor producing the sound. That was when she


    registered she was in the hospital.


    She tried to sit upright but felt a needle pricking her wrist. She looked down at her wrist and it was an


    injection needle connected to a thin pipe. She sighed before sitting with her head resting on the wall.


    It so happened that the TV screen in front of her was on and a funeral scene was being yed.


    She frowned when she saw a few familiar faces, and then the ones that hit her right on the core were


    Ray and Christine.


    Christine was being held by Ray. Now thats not her problem. However, why is she seeing Christine


    crying so much while looking at… wait, her grandfathers picture?!


    At that moment, Jeslyns mind turned cold. Shiver ran down her spine as memories flooded her mind.


    She forcefully pulled out the needle from her wrist, totally disregarding the fact that the drip was not


    finished.


    She pulled away the white cover from her body and got down from the bed.


    Taking her first step towards the door, pain hit her hard in the head but she ignored it and staggered out


    of the room barefooted.


    While she was walking along the corridors, everyone she bumped into either gave her weird looks or


    pointed fingers at her, yet, that wasn her concern. She was too carried away to notice anyone.


    She got to the road but found no taxi. However looking up, the billboards were ying her grandfathers


    funeral.


    Inside a ck inconspicuous car speeding across the road, Rex could be seen trying to force the


    groom to tell him who he got married to, but the groom was adamant about keeping mum.


    ”Brother, so you aren going to tell me who you got married to? Your lil brother wants to know. Tell me


    and I promise Ill zip my lips. ” He made a lip-sealing gesture.


    The groom sneered, ”sure, Ill resurrect from the dead if a parrot like you could keep shut for two


    minutes. ” He answered with his eyes closed.


    ”Aai, brother, don be like that. I might be a parrot but– ”


    ”Screech!!! ”


    ”What the f*ck! ” Rex cursed after hitting his head on his brothers palm, thanks to the driver holding


    brake without warning.


    Rex was about to hit his head on his brothers shoulder, but the groom was quick enough to stop his


    head with his palm.


    ”Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?! If you can drive them you are fired! ” Rex yelled at the driver in


    frustration.


    ”Im sorry young master, it wasn my fault, a crazy woman ran into the road. ” The driver apologized.


    ”Then run her over. ” Came the grooms annoyed voice.