#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 15
Jeslyn stirred awake and stretched while turning on her side. She furrowed her brows as she tapped the soft and fluffy thing she was sleeping on with her eyes still closed.
‘When did manufacturing companies make the car seats this fluffy and wide’? She thought.
She slowly opened one eye and saw a white duvet covering her lower body. Her other eye flew open and she immediately sat up to glance around the place she was in.
It was a big room painted nude with gold intricates. The two single chairs placed beside the gold curtains were also gold, and a floor-to-ceiling window separated the balcony from the room with a white long curtain.
Jeslyn couldn’t believe what her eyes were seeing. She blinked and blinked again, still, the images didn’t disappear.
She lowered her eyes to the bed. The large king-size bed with a gold headboard and gold frame was the most prettiest she had seen… and the beautiful chandelier that was lit above her head made her throat go dry.
What about the floor? The fluffy cream foot rug placed under the bed that spread to cover a small space around the bed made Jeslyn forget to close her mouth.
She had seen wealth and tasted it, after all she is the young Miss of the Lee and Chen family, but this luxury right in front of her was something she had only seen on TV.
After admiring the room, Jeslyn went back to sleep. “That’s enough, we have seen too much luxury. Dream goddess, I want to wake up, take me back to the car.”
Jeslyn closed her eyes while patting the bed with a small smile on her face. Even though she’ll be living in the slum from now on, she won’t be upset because she had dreamed of living in a room that her enemies cannot afford. That’s a great achievement and a good sign that she would be crushing them all.
At the thought of that, she chuckled and opened her eyes, hoping to see herself in the car, but no, she still found herself in her ‘dream’.
“Dream goddess, are you joking with me? Do you want to trap me in my dreams too? Is my life not hard enough already? Please take me back and I promise to not sleep in the car ever again. Besides, this might be my last time riding a beautiful car.” She joined her hands in a pleading gesture and stayed like that for a while, but still, nothing happened.
“Ok, fine. It seems you want me to look around the house before you send me back. That’s so kind of you. How did you even know that I was longing to bid farewell to my room? Were you reading my mind?…”
Jeslyn talked to the ‘dream goddess’ for a while before she got up and started to admire the things in the room. She wandered around until she found herself in the walk-in closet and almost fainted from shock.
The white massive room was no different from a store in a luxurious mall. Everything a lady could ever want. From clothes to shoes, bags to hats, wigs to cosmetics, and even watches and rings which includes earrings, nose rings, finger rings, and so on. Goodness, the closet was a sight to behold!
Jeslyn closed her parted lips and started walking from section to section in admiration. She could only look and didn’t touch anything. What if she touched and broke something out of shock and the ‘dream goddess’ wants her to pay, where would she get the money?
What if the ‘dream goddess’ wants her to pay by staying here and doing the cleaning and maintenance, doesn’t that mean she would be seen as a dead person on earth and buried?
“No, no, I haven’t made those people pay and that innocent man I married, I haven’t divorced him yet to set him free.” Thinking of that man, Jeslyn sighed.
She walked out of the closet and checked the bathroom. The bathroom was a little simpler with gold curtains above the bathtub, a white ceiling, a chandelier, a large mirror, and flower vases.
She sighed and closed the door before heading out of the room.
As she walked down the corridor, the feeling she got from the house was a weirdly quiet and super clean house. She couldn’t get the right feeling, but it somehow reminded her of that man she married… Weird!
She walked down the fleet of twirling stairs and finally found herself standing in the sitting room.
Jeslyn sighed again. Although there was nothing much in the sitting room. However, from the soft tone of the nude paint on the wall to the brown couches and brown rug with a center table on top of the rug, wow-ed Jeslyn so much that her mouth fell open.
“Dream goddess, I have seen enough, please take me back.” She said and was about to head back to the room she came from when she heard…
“Ahh!!… Who are… Jeslyn Lee?!”
Jeslyn turned to look back and almost got the shock of her life.
The specie in front of her was so handsome that she didn’t know that she was almost drooling.
Call her wh@ťěver, but she got a soft spot for handsome men and that was why she could fall into the scheme they plotted for her, using Ray.
If Ray was handsome, then this guy in front of her has no name to qualify him.
“Y– you are fine,” she blurted without thinking.
“Huh?”
“I said you are beautiful.” She said again with dreamy eyes before she smiled. “The dream goddess knows what I love. She’s making me see them one after the other. If only I can touch him.”
It’s a ‘dream’, so of course, she can do anything which includes acting shamelessly.
Rex blinked. He didn’t understand what she was saying, but one thing he desperately wanted to know was why the infamous D-list singer was in his home… no, his brother’s home. Unless…
Rex gasped with widened eyes and mouth… Wholly lost, so much so that he didn’t see when she came to stand in front of him and hugged him.
“Beautiful people should be hugged,” She said.
Rex froze when their bodies came in contact… Those two peaches in front of her chest were soft and…
“What is going on here?”
Rex woke up from his stupified state and hurriedly pushed Jeslyn away.
Jeslyn was confused. In beautiful dreams like this, such things don’t happen. Wait, that voice…
Jeslyn and Rex simultaneously turned to look in the direction of the voice.
Her eyes turned saucers. He is here too? Why?
“B– brother, wh– who is… wh– what is she doing here?!”
“Huh?” Jeslyn looked at Rex who had his finger pointed at her while his large eyes rested on the man standing by the door.
The man had no expression on his cold face as he looked at her. Yes, his emotionless eyes were on her for a long time before he shifted his gaze and settled them on the blue-haired young man who still had his finger pointed at her.
“She’s my wife.” He said before heading towards Jeslyn.
Rex felt different emotions run into him at once. One was disbelief, another was disbelief, and the third was… massive disbelief!
How could his brother say something so, so, so unbelievable?!
His mind suddenly started to spiral out of control as he started to remember the things that had happened and placed the missing puzzles.
They had gone to Rose City to look for crucial materials for their investigation. They booked the best hotel and on that fateful day, he and his brother decided to use the hotel’s bar. His brother had gone out to use the restroom and it took a long while before he returned.
On that same day was Jeslyn Lee’s wedding which was also taking place in the hotel. When his brother came back, he told him he had gotten married.
A week later, they were heading to the airport and a crazy lady asked to be given a ride to the cemetery and which was also where Jeslyn Lee’s grandfather was being buried.
Rex glanced at Jeslyn who was moving back from his brother and his brain spun to the right path. “The crazy Miss on that day was you!”
Well, his cry did nothing to pull those two’s attention.
Jeslyn had been crying in her mind for the dream goddess to take her back as the man in front of her was suffocating her with his handsomeness, plus his aura was too overwhelming for her to want to be around him.
‘He’s dangerous!’ her mind had been screaming and she was not blind to that fact.
Well, she was… when she married him.
“M–Mr. S– stay right there, d– don’t come, take another step…ah!”
She yelped when she fell onto the couch. She hurriedly sat up and screamed, “dream goddess, I command you now, take me back!!”
Maverick paused at her scream with his eyes still on her.
Rex, who had been watching the show with his pointed finger following Jeslyn around, knitted his brows and let out a sound to show his confusion. “Huh?”
“Wait, ” he put down his finger. “You think you are dreaming? Is that what I think it is?” He hurried over to stand beside Maverick.
“Of– of course. Does this look real to you?” Jeslyn replied while blinking.
“Pfft… hahahaha….” Rex couldn’t keep his snicker and laughed so hard that he held his stomach. He pointed a finger at her and said amidst laughter. “Jeslyn Lee, you are… hahaha…”
“Wh… what is it? What’s so funny?” Nobody answered her and she watched the man walk towards a single couch and sat down with one leg over the other.
After Rex had laughed his intestines out, he also sat beside Jeslyn and said while trying to look serious. “This is no dream, Lee.”
Jeslyn looked around the house one more time and shook her head, “You can’t be serious.” She refused to believe it.
The first reason was that she was clearly sleeping in the car and when she woke up, she met herself here.
Secondly, this house is too luxurious to be owned by someone in Rose City. Her Lee family was the richest. If they cannot afford a house like this, then no one in the whole City would dare. Unless they want to relocate to the slum.
Thirdly, Jeslyn was brought up in wealth and spoiled rotten with the latest brand of everything; from accessories, and clothes to furniture. She knows most of the brands and from all she had seen, starting from the room she woke up from, to the sitting room and even the style of the interior decor, no designer in the whole of country A does it.
“You are not in country A.” Maverick finally spoke. From the way she was looking at the decorations in the sitting room, he figured out what she was thinking.
If Jeslyn had been shocked, now she was more flabbergasted at what she just heard.
“Wh– where am I?”
“Country M,” he answered.
“Ahhhh!” Jeslyn screamed and jumped up to her feet.
Rex sighed. He was still wondering what his brother was thinking. How could he bring someone from another country into their country? Not even a strong-hearted person but a little puppy like Jeslyn Lee.
Now, he’s only going to sit back here and watch how his brother explains to her…
‘wait, let me get my popcorn. Drama is about to begin! Hehehe’
Just when Rex was attempting to stand up and go get himself popcorn, he heard the devil say, “Rex, explain to her.”
“Eh?” Rex looked at his brother and saw that his eyes were already closed and his head was resting on the chair.
‘Why again was I born as his junior brother?’ Rex asked himself with sorrow in his eyes.
How was he going to explain the situation he doesn’t know to this dumb young lady?
‘Why is my life so hard?’
If only that idiot didn’t fail her mission, she wouldn’t have been sent to prison and would have been the one doing this trouble right now.
Rex sighed and motioned Jeslyn to sit down before he started to explain things to her, but what exactly?