Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 187

187 How’s the baby? 

Just before her eyes lost their shine, she screamed. 

Her scream startled Jeslyn and co. Seeing they were all looking at her with a frown on Jeslyn’s face, Vera soon realized she was only imagining things. She had just walked into the kitchen and hadn’t even said anything. 2 

“Why are you sweating so much after screaming? Is there a killer hiding somewhere in the kitchen?” Jeslyn darted her eyes around the kitchen in jest. 

“N-no, I came to get some water and almost slipped.” She stuttered and whipped her face. 

“You should have sent the maids. Do be careful, I spilled some oil around that area and-” 

“Ahhh!” Vera jolted and fell on her butt. 1 

“Ouch!…” Jeslyn made a pained expression. “That’s a bad fall. Does it hurt? Can you stand?… Riya, help her up, hurry… her baby!” 

Maya hurried over and helped Vera to her feet. 

“How is the baby? Hope it’s fine?” Jeslyn asked with feigned concern. 

“Thank you,” Vera answered through gritted teeth. 

“Good to know… but how did you fall?” Jeslyn asked, holding back laughter. 2 

Vera almost exploded but suppressed it with a deep breath. She opened the fridge, took a bottle of water, and left. 

Not like she really came for water though. 

“Hahahaha…” Jeslyn laughed so hard that her eyes teared up. “Stupid,” she said after laughing. 

Chef May smiled helplessly. “That was dangerous. She could have lost her baby.” 

“How is that my fault? I just warned her about what could have caused her a miscarriage. Did I do wrong?” Jeslyn asked with a straight face. Her shamelessness was top-notch. 

Nothing was more funny than Jeslyn’s straight face. How could she be so shameless? There was no oil on the floor… In fact, Chef May was just about to bring out the oil from the cabinet, so where did ‘oil on the floor’ come from? 

“No, you were not wrong!” Maya smiled. 

“Better.” 

Jeslyn continued her cooking with a heart filled with happiness. Didn’t that bitch try to mock her for not being Valen’s mother or giving Maverick a child yet? She deserved what she got and Jeslyn was not sorry. 

Inside the room, Vera lay on the bed feeling a little unwell. Her stomach was cramping due to the heavy fall but she was sure it wasn’t going to be a miscarriage, however, she was going to take advantage of it. 

She took her phone and called doctor Matt. Calling Maverick wouldn’t make it look genuine. She placed the phone on speaker and waited for it to be picked up. 

“Hello, pl- please, come check me quickly, I think I’m going to have a miscarriage!” 

The other side was silent for a moment before Matt responded affirmatively; “where are you?” 

“In my room.” 

“OK.” 

A while later, Matt entered her room with a nurse and met her thrashing in bed with sweat all over 

her. 

He was a doctor who saves lives, so his doctor instinct kicked in and he immediately increased his steps toward her. 

After checking her with the equipment he brought, he frowned when he didn’t feel the changes in her temperature, and system. 

“Bring her to get a full body check.” He instructed the nurse. 

Hearing that, Vera grabbed his hand and shook her head. “No please, I don’t want to be checked. It was just a fall, I’m fine.” She wiped her tears, looking pitiful. 

Unfortunately Maverick and his friends signed a deal to be heartless with the devil. 

Doctor Matt wasn’t moved by the acting and said; “if you are going to stop me from knowing what’s Wrong with you. then I won’t care if you lose your baby.” 

“I’m fine, thank you.” 

Matt looked at her for a while. “That works for me too, Take care.” He walked out after that. 

Once they left, Vera blew out air. That was close. If she had allowed him to take her for a full body check-up and then carry out a DNA test on her baby, what would she do then? 

She was sure that before she gives birth some months from now, her mission might have been successful and those she was working for would have come to get her. That’s why she’s not worried about the bone marrow matching or not matching. 

But if the truth about her baby gets out now, it would mean that she’ll be killed before help comes. 

If only she knew she was already in the stomach of a sperm whale, she would have known that her death was already certified. 

Jeslyn took the prepared food to Valen and met Rex and Maverick in the room. 

“Oh my world, the aroma is already waving at me. Sister-in-law, did you bring my potion?” 

“It’s just some healthy porridge. It’s nothing serious.” 

“Still, I want to have some. It looks rich and appetizing…” 

“Don’t think about it. I only made this for Valen. Plum didn’t even get any.” 

“Huh? Who is plum? You have someone else in this house and I’m not aware?” Rex furrowed his brow 

as he looked from Maverick to Jeslyn who was about to start feeding Valen. 

“What?” 

“Who is Plum? Did you allow another disaster into the house?” 

Jeslyn held back her laughter. With a straight face, she nodded; “your brother brought in another girl. 

I heard she was his childhood sweetheart.” 

That was when it dawned on Rex that she was joking around. “You-” 

“Dad, who is that woman?” 

“Vera,” he replied nonchalantly while scrolling on his tablet. 

“Why is she suddenly here? I don’t want her here. She’s not a good person.” 

“Mn” Maverick replied. 

“Hey, you don’t ‘mn’ like that.” Jeslyn chastised Maverick before she turned to Valen. “Honey, she’s your mother. From her point of view, it wasn’t her fault. She was kidnaped. If not because of that, she wouldn’t have left you. Don’t be mad at her and allow her the chance to show you how much she loves you.” She rubbed his head. (1)