Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 456

456 No route to escape

Jeslyn stopped to look back, wondering why he wasn’t chasing her. By now, he must have known she wasn’t in her room. At that moment, she felt something was wrong. Her instinct told her to go back to the house but she didn’t want to return, so she ignored her instinct and continued heading to the

mountains.

She could see them right in front of her. In less than ten minutes she would be at the foot of the mountains, she thought.

True to her thoughts, less than ten minutes later, Jeslyn was standing at the foot of the mountain. It wasn’t a very tall one and she could climb it because there were stairs carved on it.

Jeslyn’s stomach was hurting and she had no idea why. At first, she thought it must have been because she was hungry but hunger doesn’t cause biting pains, right?

Instinctively, she placed her left hand on the lower part of her stomach where the pain was. The moment that her hand came in contact with her stomach, her ring glowed blue and the pain slowly turned dull and vanished.

Jeslyn smiled faintly. She was energized again, so she continued climbing.

Finally at the top of the mountain, what greeted Jeslyn was a landscape filled with snow and trees as far as the eyes could see.

She gasped at the sight. Where is this place? She thought.

Jeslyn couldn’t decide if she should go back or enter the snowland. What if there are dangerous animals behind these trees? She certainly cannot fight without a weapon…

Yes, weapon!

She looked at her right hand, the shard of glass she took earlier was still with her. A thought crossed her mind at that moment.

While she was thinking, Jeslyn heard the howling of beasts in the snowland. Before she could listen to see what kind of animal they were, she saw white wolves tearing through the snow as they made their way in her direction.

Jeslyn’s eyes widened and immediately climbed down and started running back to the glass house. Living with her enemy is far better than being torn apart by wolves.

Who knows, while she’s still alive, her husband might find a way to come for her, she thought as she ran with all her might, while the wolves stood on top of the mountain without climbing down.

They howled with grievance as they watched a supposed prey run further away from them.

Jeslyn didn’t look back as she continued running. They said running without looking back gives you more strength and focus, so she was trying that ideology out today.

After running for so long without hearing the howling of wolves anymore, she finally looked back and saw that nothing was chasing her anymore. She stopped running and bent over with her hands on her knees, taking deep breaths to calm her racing heart- Under a tree.

“Are you done running?”

The voice startled Jeslyn that she fell on her butt.

On the branches of the autumn tree along the road, was Reuben. He jumped down and offered his hand to help Jeslyn up from the floor.

The lady ignored him and proceeded to stand on her own. If anything, she would be calm until an opportunity comes for her to get revenge on him and escape from here.

“You look exhausted,” he said and without giving her a chance to react, he picked her on his shoulder and started marching back to the glass house.

“Put me down! Get your filthy hands off me…!!”

No matter how hard she screamed, kicked her legs and punched his back, the guy wouldn’t put her down until they got to the house.

He gently put her on a couch and squatted in front of her, Ignoring the rage on her face, he said; “You can’t run away from me, no matter how hard you try. You also cannot-”

She stabbed the shard of glass towards his clavicle but he was fast enough to stop her. He grabbed her wrist and completed his words, “… kill me, Rossa.”

He forcefully pried the shard out of her hold, but made sure to not hurt her hand, then threw it to the floor and shattered it into tiny pieces.

“We are in the middle of a thick forest. Behind you is autumn and in front of you is winter, like you’ve seen. In the snowland are Arctic wolves, polar bears, foxes, snow leopards, deer… would you like to

hear more?”

The more Jeslyn heard, the deeper the despair she fell into.

“Behind you, in the autumn forest are also wild and dangerous animals. But if you don’t believe me, I can take you there to see for yourself.” © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

As if he hadn’t dashed Jeslyn’s hopes enough, he continued.

“There’s no road that leads in or out of this place. I made sure of that. The only way to come in and go out is by a chopper. So you see, no one will find you. You are stuck with me, here in this forest!”

“Reuben, you’ve made the biggest mistake of your life. Maverick will come for you and then make you suffer a pain worse than death!” She proclaimed with a smile on her lips.

Reuben looked at her pretty but cold face for a while, then sniffed a laugh. “True. But only if he was still alive.” He got up, took the laptop that was on the center table and turned it on.

A thought crossed Jeslyn’s mind and she gripped the hem of her shirt. As if he knew what she was thinking, he burst her bubble.

“Don’t think about calling for help with this laptop. There’s no signal on it. I made sure to leave it bare. But I transferred all sorts of movies, music, and any entertainment you can think of. With this, you won’t be bored.”

Jeslyn’s shoulders slumped in defeat when she heard that.

“Aha! I found it.” He carried the laptop to her and showed her the same images he sent to Rex.

“There is your husband. He went to fight against the Dark Age organization and was killed by the sovereign…”