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Her Substitute Groom 30
Chapter 30 Connor POV I pulled my car over at the side of the road and headed to the lake. Even though a part of me kept telling me that it was pointless coming here, I was hoping and praying that maybe, just maybe, a miracle will happen and I'll find him. Again, I dived into the lake after I changed into a swim tank. Even if he was dead, I at least needed to get his corpse and give him a proper burial. I swam to the edge of the lake, searching for him but there was no sign of him anywhere. I couldn't go deeper into the water, so I couldn't go to the depth of the water. "You need to find him, Connor. You can't give up," just on the verge of giving up, I heard that voice sounding in my head, so I swam deeper inside the lake. My chest started to contract, making my heartbeat slow down. I was running out of oxygen as a result of holding my breath for too long under the water and I knew I needed to get out of here, but with the hope of finding him eventually, I kept swimming deeper ins
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Chapter 31 Claire POV "Honey, can you please stop being like this? We can't lose three children, please," I watched Mom through the hole in their door as she knelt in front of Dad, pleading with him like her life depended on it, but even though Dad hasn't said a thing, I knew what was on his mind. "If you want to go with them, then do it and stop troubling me. I don't want to get mad at you," As expected, he scolded Mom, and I sighed briefly. Dad although was the sweetest man any woman would want to be married to and a man any kids would want as a Dad, he was also a tough man that would never change his mind whenever it was already set on something, and that is the only thing I hated about him. "Honey, please," Mom pleaded again, but he wasn't ready to listen to her. I forgot I was peeping, but the door jerked open all of a sudden, sending me rolling on the ground and I winced painfully while rubbing my hand on my forehead. The two long straight legs standing in front of me made m
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Chapter 32 Connor POV "You can't be treating Claire like this. You asked me to leave, and I did. You can't treat her like she's not a human just because of the mistake I made. It's not fair," I said to Dad, and he scoffed. "Who are you to tell me what is wrong and what is right? What do you? It was all your fault, and you still dare to show your face to me and tell me that trash?" He fired at me, and I bit my lip. "Do you think you have the right to tell me that when you already ruined this family? You are nothing, but a disgrace. A disgrace I regret giving birth to," His words pierced through my heart, but I tried to fight back the pain, reminding myself that I deserved all he was saying to me, so I shouldn't think of getting hurt by his words. I slowly went on my knees, and I heard Claire gasp behind me. "I'm not asking you to forgive me. All I'm asking is for you to leave Claire out of this, please. You can't hurt her because of this," I pleaded with him, but he scoffed instea
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Chapter 33 Janice POV Two weeks later Everything was almost back to the way they used to be, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the fact that Connor couldn't still get over his family cutting him and his brother off completely. Although he has been trying to act like everything was fine with him, it was unfortunately obvious that he wasn't fine. Chase started working in his company as a part-time model and they have since been going to the company together. What about me? Well, I've started working as his assistant, and so far, it has been exhausting, but thinking about the pay I would get at the end of the month has been my only motivation, so I was going to keep pushing harder no matter how difficult it seemed to be. I mean, working and earning fifteen thousand dollars a month was fair enough, right? Well, Connor Empire is the only company I know that pays their workers such high salaries. Other companies range from six to ten thousand dollars monthly. I should count
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Chapter 34 Connor POV "What is wrong with her?" I mumbled, staring at the closed door while trying to figure out why she acted like that. The last time I checked, we were married not because we love each other, and also, we weren't going to be together for long, so what does she care what I do with my life? "Come on, baby. Let's start from where we stopped," The bitch I was fucking a moment ago said to me, and I turned to see her sitting on my desk and spreading her legs, revealing her dripping wet pink pussy. I scoffed as I walked over to the desk, pulled out the drawer, and took out one parcel of money, throwing it at her. "Get dressed and leave. Your service is no longer needed," I said to her, sitting on my chair. "But..." "You have thirty seconds to get the hell out of my office if you don't want to be thrown out by the security," I said to her dismissively, and that was all she needed to quickly get dressed and saunter out of my office. Of course, she wouldn't want to risk
Last Updated : 2023-08-31Her Substitute Groom 35
Chapter 35 Janice POV The sting I felt in my heart when he told me to stop meddling in his affair was a feeling I couldn't push out of my head. It felt strange, very strange that I couldn't fathom what the hell was happening or wrong with me. We weren't in love, so why would I care what he choose to do with his life? "When everything is over, you should get a life for yourself, Janice," I whispered, tucking the strands of hair on my face to my ear, leaning over the rail afterward. I was looking forward to getting a divorce and staying away from this freak forever, but I didn't want anything more than to keep working here even after the divorce. No other company pays more than this, and you know how much money means to me. 'Carl' A part of my heart stung as that name played in my head, and I asked myself again what the heck happened between him and Connor that he could never forgive. I was still living in the dark and really wanted to know what transpired between them, but I didn't
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Chapter 36 Janice POV Being in Texas feels so great and I wished I could take a walk around and feed my eyes with things here. But sadly, we came here for work purposes, and there's no way Connor would allow me to tour the city like that. I stood on the balcony of our room and fed my eyes with the beautiful view from here. From up here I could see the outline of the house, the outdoor swimming pool, the beautiful garden downstairs, and everything. The house looked like one of those I've seen in movies. "What are you thinking about?" I heard Connor's voice, so I turned to look at him. My heart skipped when I saw him walking into the balcony, shirtless. I swallowed nothing. "Nothing," I said almost in a whisper, turning my face away afterward. He came to stand beside me, leaning over the rail and staring at the sky. It was a beautiful and cozy evening, but the house wasn't too dark because of the light. "Hmm," He nodded his head. Again, I looked at him. He looked like he had a lot
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Chapter 37 Janice POV I checked myself out in the reflection one more time and tucked my hair behind my ear before walking out of the room, and heading downstairs. The short blue gown fitted me perfectly as if it was tailored for me, and packing my hair up in a ponytail and leaving some strands was a breathtaking style I loved when I saw it. I spot him sitting in the dining room as I descended the staircase. "Good morning. Did you sleep well?" I asked him as I pulled out the chair and sat down. "Hmm. Morning," He replied to me as he raised his gaze to look at me, smiling at me. "Did you sleep well?" He asked, and I scoffed. "What if I say no, hmm?" I rolled my eyes, and he scoffed. "Why? What happened?" "I think you should ask yourself. How could I have slept well when you left me to sleep in there all by myself?" I rolled my eyes at him, and he slowly nodded. "The meeting has been postponed till tomorrow. Do you have anything in mind you want to do? Just take this as your t
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Chapter 103Janice POVI walked in on Carl smoking in his room, and I scoffed unbelievably. How could he still smoke in this situation?"Carl...""I want to be left alone," He cut me off without even allowing me to say anything, and I scoffed and rolled my eyes. At first, I was sympathetic toward him, but after hearing about everything that transpired between them in the past, I couldn't help the disgust I felt toward him at this moment. I understand how miserable Connor must've felt, the trauma he must've been through when he found them like that, and to think that he never felt remorseful about his actions. I didn't know what could be more cruel and disgusting."Why did you do that? Why your brother's wife of all women out there?" I asked him, trying to be calm. I was so disgusted with him that I couldn't even stand the sight of him. "I told you I want to be alone, Janice," He looked at me as he puffed smoke from his nose and mouth, his eyes were red and filled with anger. I was sup
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Chapter 102Connor's jaw dropped to the ground as he stared back at Carl. For a moment, this felt like a dream to him. This couldn't be true, right? This person wasn't his brother who passed away months ago, right?"Why do you look so shocked to see me? You probably thought I was dead, didn't you? Are you disappointed?" Carl asked as he walked over to stand in front of Connor, but he was still too shocked to say anything.Connor opened his mouth to talk, but words failed him as the only thing he could do was stare at Carl from his head to his toes. When their eyes met, he took his time to check out his eyes which was said to have been destroyed the other time. It almost seemed like nothing happened to the eye. Was this really Carl or was someone impersonating him?"It's good to see you again. Are you as happy as I am?" The corner of Carl's lips twitched up into a smirk as he stared back at Connor. Although he wasn't prepared for them to meet now, he needed some more time to prepare hi
Her Substitute Groom 101
Chapter 101Connor POV'Carl is alive' Those words kept replaying in my head as I drove restlessly down the road. I had to confirm this myself because no way I was going to believe it without doing confirmation."Can you calm down, please? You are going to get the two of us killed," Chase uttered as he held on tightly to the seatbelt, but the only thing on my mind was to get to that house and confirm this.Thirty minutes later, I finally pulled over in front of the gate and stepped out of the car. I banged the bar gate impatiently while waiting for whoever was around to come and get the door, and after a few minutes, I saw a guy of about the same age as Claire, stepped out of the house."Who are you?" He asked as he strode down toward the gate where we were waiting."How may I help you?" He asked as he finally got to the gate."Where is Janice?" I asked him restlessly, and he gave me a long confusing stare."Why do you want to see my sister?" He asked me, and my jaw dropped to the gro
Her Substitute Groom 100
Chapter 100"What did you say you wanted to talk to me about Janice?" Connor asked desperately as soon as Chase pulled the car over in front of the restaurant."Why are you being so desperate, Connor? I'm not going to tell you, not until we have lunch together," Chase replied to him as he removed his seatbelt and stepped out of the car."If you tricked me into coming here, then I'm going to be so mad at you, Chase," He reminded Chase as they both walked toward the entrance door of the restaurant."I'm not trying to play you, trust me," Chase assured him, but deep inside him, he knew there was nothing to talk about. He only wanted to get him out of the office so he could eat good food even if it was just for the day. He hadn't been eating well, and he was just being like this as a concerned brother.Chase ordered food for both of them, but Connor could barely eat his food as he was being eaten up by his curiosity, dying to know what his brother brought him out here to discuss."Trust m
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Chapter 99"I'm sorry, Sir... It was a mistake," The video editor, a young slim lady quickly apologized to Connor as a different image from the presentation they were having that day at the office, popped up.It was on a Monday morning, and Connor's company was doing a presentation for the new product he was about to release, but the video editor who was in charge of the presentation seemed to have messed things up."What is the meaning of this?" Connor lost it, so he slammed his hands on the table and rose to his feet."What is the meaning of this nonsense?" He yelled at the lady, not minding his business partners around. This was something he could've handled carefully and calmly, but fuck it! He had a lot on his mind already and had no patience left in him to do this carefully."I'm sorry, Sir... I didn't mean to...""Were you blind or something? You were fucking paid for this, so what happened?" He thundered at the lady again, and she panicked."Sir, you need to calm down, please.
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Chapter 98Janice POVMrs. Hughes didn't deserve any of the pain she was being through, and seeing her earlier broke my heart. She was a nice woman who never deserved the treatment she was given. I could understand how eager she must've been upon realizing that her son whom she had been mourning for months was alive, and the heartbreak she must've suffered when he pretended not to know her.The sound of the knock on the door pulled my attention."Who is there?" I asked."It's me. Can I come in?" My heart missed a beat and I rose to my feet when I heard Carl's voice from outside. I swallowed nothing, my heart hammered hard against my chest and I fondled with my fingers. I couldn't stop him from coming inside the room and I couldn't also send him away."Can I come in?" He asked again, and this time, I was left with the only choice of letting him in. The door opened, and he walked inside. As usual, he was wearing a pair of black short trousers and a black casual shirt."I've been home ov
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Chapter 97"What are you saying, Chase?" Mrs. Hughes' eyes narrowed in shock after Chase told her about what happened back at Carl's house."Mom... I...I...I saw Carl... I saw Carl... I really saw him," Chase stuttered, his heart pounding hard against his chest, his lips quivered fearfully. "Stop joking around with me, son... How is that possible? Your brother is dead... Carl is fucking dead!" Mrs. Hughes felt like she was losing her mind, this was hard to believe because the last time she checked, her son was dead. He had died months ago and it couldn't be possible that he was the one Chase saw, but Chase was sure of what he saw. He was sure that person was his brother whom they thought was dead."Mom, why are you not believing me?" Chase ran his fingers through his hair crazily like he was about to lose his mind. Apparently, he had already lost his mind and thought he was going crazy that moment that he saw Carl."How am I supposed to believe you, Chase? How am I supposed to believ
Her Substitute Groom 96
Chapter 96Janice POV"Sweetheart, let's go inside," Carl faced me and smiled at me, but that smile meant something else and if I could do anything, I would start running right away from here.Chase was too shocked to talk, so he just stared wordlessly. I had expected that reaction, anyway. I mean, this dude was believed to have been dead, and popping out of nowhere now was really shocking."Come on," My heart missed a beat when he placed his hand gently around my shoulder like the gentleman he never was, and I was left with only one choice, and it was to follow him.I wished I could disappear at that moment as he led me back into the house. My heart pounded hard against my chest, my breath hitched momentarily and I felt suffocated as the thought of the hell that awaited me behind those closed doors hit me hard.Nobody was in the living room when we got there, so he led me to the room, and as soon as we got inside his room, he slammed the door close and locked it."Ca... Carl... I did
Her Substitute Groom 95
Chapter 95Janice POVCarl called me about an hour ago to inform me that he was on his way, and I didn't wish for anything more than for him to not make it here. Of course, I knew this was extreme, but what was I supposed to wish for when he had made my life into a living hell?After breakfast with my parents and Jeff, I returned to my room since I couldn't go anywhere else aside from being here.Sitting on my bed and just staring into space while wallowing in my own thoughts, a knock sounded on my door, and when I ushered whoever was at the door inside as I was too lazy to go open it myself, the door opened and Jeff walked inside."Jeff?" I called surprisingly."Someone is here to see you, sis," My heart skipped when he said that, and immediately, many thoughts came parading my mind. Who could that be? Could it be that it was Connor that came back again? I asked myself and swallowed nothing."Who is it?" I asked curiously as I stood from the bed."He is outside the gate. I was on my
