#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S2
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 24
Whenever she hears that she wants Valen’s mother it pricks her heart, especially when it’s coming from this b!tch in front of her. However, letting Vera win against her in an argument is something she would never swallow.
“You heard her, Jeslyn is my mummy and you aren’t. I only want one mummy and not a mother, so leave now.”
“Vera, don’t you think you are too engrossed in this role?” Rex asked meaningfully.
Vera didn’t think about his words deeply, after all, she still thinks no one knows. She looked at Maverick since everyone was ganging up against her. Moreover, she was carrying his child, so he should have the decency to defend her, right?
“What are you looking at?! Get out!!” Jeslyn pushed her. How dare Vera give her husband such pitiful looks. She was seducing her husband right in front of her. The nerve!
“Maverick, this is not right. I’m the mother of your children. You once loved me and treated me right.” She wiped her tears. “It wasn’t my fault that I left…” She turned to Jeslyn and chuckled. “Do you think Maverick loves you? You are wrong. Just like he did to me, that is what he is doing to you. The only woman he truly loves is Rossa, his childhood sweetheart, and not you! He is only showing he loves you now because you remind him of Rossa.”
Vera felt humiliated and angry, which was why she said things she wasn’t supposed to say.
A glint flashed through Maverick’s eyes and Rex curled his lips into a smile.
Valen raised his head and looked from his father to the two women facing each other in front of his bed. ‘Interesting. My father is so handsome that he has women fighting over him. Now he has someone else he truly loves… disgusting!’
“Hehehe… too bad, I’m his Rossa… his childhood sweetheart.” Jeslyn watched the shock on Vera’s face and enjoyed how the color disappeared from her face.
“Now that you know you were only a plaything that saw herself as the real deal, you should give way to the original, don’t you think?”
“Y– you are lying! You are not Rossa! She is dead…” She immediately stopped herself when she realized she had exposed herself. Her eyes shot to Maverick but he was still on his phone and didn’t seem to care. But she was scared that he might be pretending not to hear that.
“Interesting” Rex murmured. He looked at his brother. Seeing that he didn’t ‘hear’ what Vera said, Rex’s lips curled. Who would stop a person from digging their grave deeper than 6ft?
“Oh?” Jeslyn turned to look at Maverick. “She said I was dead. Why don’t I know that?”
Maverick finally got up from his seat. With one hand in his pocket, he walked to Jeslyn and wrapped a hand around her waist. With his face slower to hers, he said; “I must have told her that in my vulnerable state.”
“Hmph!” Jeslyn threw her face to the side.
Vera’s heart finally relaxed. She could have also used that excuse. Good thing he didn’t suspect anything. She has to leave now before these evil people make her reveal more than she already did.
She turned and hurried out while crying.
After Vera left, Rex sighed. “What a wonderful show. It’s a pity it ended too quickly.” He hurried to Jeslyn and held her hand. “Sister-in-law, should we go and cause her more trouble?” His eyes split due to how happy he looked.
Jeslyn wiggled her way out of Maverick’s hold she looked at Rex weirdly and threw his hand off. “Tch, you have a fiance now. You should grow up a little bit.”
Rex sighed. “Celeste won’t abandon me for being young at heart. She knows I’m a beast in… ahem!” He coughed on his fist.
Jeslyn rolled her eyes and returned to Valan.
“You’ve upgraded. I’m impressed.” Valen praised Jeslyn.
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*The next day*
“Achoo!” Vera sneezed and dragged the cover to wrap herself even more. “Ma, I can’t take it anymore. That child has become my nightmare.” She cried
Madam Caroline stared at the girl holding a cup of piping hot tea with a big white duvet wrapped around her and asked; “What happened again?” She had been receiving calls from Vera reporting the happenings in the house to her. The problems were always about Jeslyn and she never sounded this upset and unwell.
“He refused to see me as his mother and the worst part is that he’s very disrespectful to me.” Teardrops left her eyes and fell on the duvet.
The cover was so tightly wrapped around her that one would fear for her getting suffocated.
“What new thing has my grandson done? This isn’t the first time he has disrespected you, is it?…. And why are you wrapped so tightly?” She didn’t bother about Vera’s white face.
“No ma, it’s getting worse. Like two days ago when he was wheeled out of his room, I tried to touch him but he screamed and hurled his phone at me before calling me names. Yesterday I saw that his hair had grown too long and was blocking his view, so I tried to cut it short. Valen screamed so loudly that Jeslyn and a few servants ran over. He explained maliciously to Jeslyn that I wanted to make him bald. I tried to explain but Jeslyn didn’t give me a chance and directly slapped me across the face!”
“Jeslyn did what?!” Madam Caroline frowned deeply.
“She slapped me.” Vera wiped her tears.
“She slapped a pregnant woman?! Who gave Jeslyn such guts?!” She took a deep breath and asked further; “What did my son say?”
“Maverick doesn’t say anything. He behaves like he doesn’t see what is happening in the house.”
Madam Caroline nodded and snorted. “Just like his grandfather… Go on,” she waved her hand in annoyance.
“This morning, as I was sleeping…” she sniffed and forced herself to not sneeze again. It seems Madam Caroline doesn’t like it. “…an extremely cold water was doused on me. When I opened my eyes, I saw a guard standing beside Valen with a 20 liter bucket. Valen was smiling and before I could talk, he told me it was his payment for what I did yesterday.”
So that’s why she’s wrapped up like a bun. Madam Caroline smiled. ‘That’s my loving grandson,’ she thought.
“Ahem…” She coughed. “Ehm, Valen is just a child, you know that. Wh@ťěver he’s doing is what was taught to him by the wench, Jeslyn. So you should know who your enemy is. Whoever stands in your way is my enemy as well and my enemies have never been able to live for long. I’ll get you something. Find a way to make Jeslyn either eat it or make it get in contact with her skin.”
“Ma, what is it? Is it going to ki|| her?” She panicked.
Madam Caroline looked at her with angry eyes for a split second before she smiled. “No, it won’t. It will cause a severe allergic reaction to her body.”
Vera breathed a sigh of relief, then asked; “does it have an antidote?”
“No,” she shook her head. “It’s an unfinished product I got from the Yu family, so don’t waste it.”
“Yes, Ma…”
Meanwhile, at the mansion, the servants and guards were running Helter skelter with buckets of water.
Jeslyn was outside the house looking angrily at Valen.
The child on the other hand had his lips flattened in a thin line with his head down while sitting in his White wheelchair.
Did he regret what he did? No!
“Valen!” Jeslyn called a little loudly.
“I’m sorry.” He immediately said and held Jeslyn’s hand. “I won’t do it again… I promise.”
Yeah, he won’t do it again because this disaster should be enough to send Vera parking.
“I don’t feel you are genuine with your repentance.” Jeslyn felt helpless but didn’t allow it to show on her appearance.
“She thr_@tened to make me bald…”
“You took your revenge this morning. You mixed all the canned water you took from the fridge and doused it all on her, forgetting she is your mother and also… she is pregnant with your sibling!”
“I…” he paused then yelled. “She deserved it! I don’t want a sibling from her!!”
Jeslyn took a deep breath before lowering herself to his level. She cupped his beautiful face and kissed him on his forehead.
“Son, she wronged you at first but then you retaliated in the wrong manner. The water was freezing cold. She could have been hospitalized. Secondly, she’s pregnant with your sibling! What if it’s a cute girl?”
Valen rolled his eyes. He h@ťěs cute girls.
“You already went overboard with that and now you burnt her room to the ground. Why would you think of doing that?! What if someone did that to me? What would you do?”
“I’d be angry.” He said curtly.
“See? Because you know it’s wrong. So why do you feel it’s ok to do that to someone else? Your mother at that!?”
Valen sighed. “I’m sorry.” He apologized even though he wasn’t truly sorry. He just wanted Jeslyn to not be angry at him.
“I’m not the one you should apologize to…”
“Ok. When she returns, I’ll apologize to her. Can we talk about something else now?” Valen understood now that he was wrong. However, he still feels Vera deserved it.
Jeslyn sighed deeply. Forget it. It’s enough that he knows he did the wrong thing and would apologize when she returns.
“Ok…”
Maverick, who had finally gone to the office today after so long, received a call from home, telling him what Valen did. He massaged the bridge of his nose with his eyes closed.
The material he used in building that house is fire resistant. How did Valen set fire to Vera’s room?
His child was becoming more and more like him and Jeslyn would certainly get a migraine in the future.
How would he tell her to not bother herself teaching him morals anymore? Valen was just like him when he was also growing up.
It’s not that they (him and Valen) don’t know right from wrong. However, they choose to retaliate in the wrong way to set their image so no one would find trouble with them anymore.
Jeslyn had questioned him about his manner of bringing Valen up when she first met the child. He didn’t defend himself but allowed her to vent. What would he say when the child was the smaller version of him? Would he say he had no good upbringing too?
His mother might have been the most worthless mother to ever exist but his father was the best dad anyone could ever have.
Lu Hao was kind, gentle, loving, and an extrovert who makes people happy. Lu Hao single-handedly raised him, yet Maverick turned out to be another version of his grandfather.
All these years, Maverick seemed not to care about his son and allowed Mulan to do what she did, it’s not because he didn’t care, but because he knew his son like he knew himself. He knew that no matter what morals are taught to him, Valen would end up becoming another Maverick.
Valen is like a rubber band. No matter how far you stretch it, it returns to its normal size.
That was why he married Jeslyn. Firstly, he didn’t know why he went soft on her and her grandfather on the first day they met. However, now, he understood it was because of the love he had always had for her.
Secondly, his intuition told him that Jeslyn would be able to make his son more humane than himself.
‘The love and care of a mother work wonders,’ so he heard, but it seems he gave birth to another Maverick, and Jeslyn can’t do much to change him.
That child is only compassionate to his mother and no one else.
Maverick got up from his office chair and dipped one hand in his trousers pocket as he headed out with the phone still on his ear.
“Reschedule the meeting with the Yu family.” He passed the order before entering the elevator with Code 2 and Code 10 walking behind him.
…
Outside his company which stood tall like it was determined to reach the heavens, a convoy with a red car in the middle was parked outside the gate and a guard wearing the Yu family’s uniform was talking to the security men by the gate who seemed to be adamant in letting the cars in.
Inside the red car, Emilee received a call from one of the black cars behind her. Her Assistant told her the meeting has been canceled.
She was already here, should she return just like that?
Christine heard what was said because she was sitting beside her sister, so she said; “But we are already here.”
“It’s my fault,” Emilee replied as she flipped the magazine she was reading.
“How?”
“There are still thirty minutes left.” There was still half an hour left before the meeting which was enough for anyone to cancel an agreement, so she wasn’t offended.
“Still. Since we are already here, shouldn’t they allow us in?”
Emilee looked away from the magazine to her sister. “This is not Country A or Rose City. You don’t get to do as you wish.” She lectured.
“I understand.” Christine lowered her head while fidgeting with her fingers.
She has been in the Country for three days now but still doesn’t know much about the dos and don’ts of the Country. This was her first time coming out.
A while later, the gate was opened but before they could drive in, a black car drove out. The road was blocked, so Code 2 couldn’t drive past.
“Boss, the Yu family’s head is here,” he said.
Maverick’s head was on the headrest with his eyes closed. He didn’t reply when he heard that. Meaning, there was no turning back.
So when the convoy moved out of the way, Code 2 zoomed off.
Christine’s eyes trailed the car from the window until she could no longer see it.
“Don’t covet him.” Emilee sounded nonchalant.
“Mn,” Christine nodded but her heart said otherwise.
…
At the mansion, everywhere looked calm and peaceful like always. Vera walked in awkwardly, thanks to the duvet.
She saw the servants doing their chores without looking at her. She didn’t find it odd because the servants had always been like that, so she walked to their room.
As she unlocked her door and pushed it open, Vera stood in utmost shock! She forgot to breathe for a long time until she felt she was suffocating, did she let herself release the breath all at once, like someone who was drowning…
Everything in the room was burnt so badly that she couldn’t differentiate which was supposed to be a chair or a stool.
The bulletproof window was broken and the tiled floor couldn’t even be seen.
Without a doubt, she knew who did it. Only that cursed child would do this! She thought.
Vera threw the cover off her and turned around with fury, heading out to see that child.
“Valen! Valen!! Where the hell are you?! Valennnn!!!” Her scream almost shook the house.
“Where is that child?!” She barked at a maid who was walking by. The maid pointed upstairs.
Vera turned towards the stairs and marched up. In the corridor, she saw Valen coming towards her in his wheelchair.
The wheelchair moves on its own, so no help is required, which was why Valen was on his own.
“You bastard! What did you do to my room?!!”
“What did you see?” He said he would apologize but not after she called him a bastard.
Vera gritted her teeth, trying to suppress her rage. She balled her hands tightly to stop herself from slapping the demon out of him.
“Who made you do it?” She believed Jeslyn instigated him to do it.
“Who instigated you to cause trouble in my absence? Who instigated you to have the idea of making me bald?”
“I told you I didn’t!!!”
“Then I said you did, so you did.”
“Ahhh!” Vera screamed in rage. She was going mad. This child and his mother were driving her mad and her tolerance was almost full.
Vera took a deep breath a few times to calm herself. “Why did you do that?”
“You don’t have a room anymore in this house, you can leave now,” Valen said with determination in his sharp hazel pupil.