#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S3
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 59
Jeslyn’s eyelids fluttered and she slowly opened her eyes. From her blurry vision, she could see she was in a bedroom. She sat up and rested her back on the headboard. With her little movement, the duvet slid off her chest, revealing her beautiful pale skin.
Her eyes shot wide and she immediately pulled off the duvet. What greeted her was her nakedness!
At first, she didn’t make sense of what was happening until she saw her reflection in the dressing mirror adjacent to her bed.
“Ahh!!”
Her scream travelled out of the house, sending the birds perching on the trees around the house into a frenzy.
A smile crept onto Reuben’s lips when he heard the cry. “She’s finally awake.” He got up and left for her room.
Jeslyn was dazedly looking at her naked body in the mirror when she heard a faint knock at the door. She snapped back to reality and hurriedly pulled the cover around herself, waiting to see who would come in.
The door cracked open, revealing a smiling Reuben with a tray of piping hot coffee.
“You’re finally awake after three days. You scared me, love, ” he smiled.
“Y–you?! What are you–” At that moment, the incident at the restroom flooded her mind.
Jeslyn gasped as she stared at him in a daze, trying to convince herself that the hickeys on her body weren’t from him.
He started walking towards the bed, while she was there, staring at him without moving her gaze away.
“You must be tired, I brought you coffee… exactly how you like it.” He placed the coffee beside the lampstand and sat on the edge of the bed.
“Tch, why are you wrapped so tightly? Are you shy? But you weren’t last night.” He chuckled.
At that moment, Jeslyn’s hand shook and her heart turned cold. Without thinking, she lurched forward, grabbed the mug and threw the piping hot coffee at his face.
Reuben was quick to dodge. But as if it was within Jeslyn’s calculation, she moved again but this time, Reuben wasn’t expecting it. He couldn’t move out of the way in time to avoid the fierce blow.
“Bang!”
Blood trailed down his temple from the hit he got from the mug. Seeing she was going for another hit, Reuben grabbed her, threw her onto the bed and pinned her down.
Jeslyn refused to cave in. She had lost her mind at the idea that another man who wasn’t her husband, took advantage of her.
As she thrashed on the bed beneath him, Reuben yelled.
“Listen!!”
Jeslyn glared furiously at him. She was panting from the resistance she put up.
Seeing she had calmed down, he continued, “Maverick is dead! I’m your husband now, with the permission from your father! You better–”
“Hehe… Hahahaha—!” Like a maniac, Jeslyn burst into a fit of laughter without humour.
“My husband will come for you both and he’d ki|| you like the $cvm you are! Hahahaha!” She continued laughing until he left her alone and went to tend to the injury on his temple. The blood had rushed into his eye and blurred his vision.
After he shut the door, Jeslyn’s laugh stopped and tears ran down her eyes. She refused to believe anything he said. Her husband is alive and she was not r*ped.
Even though she was trying to convince herself that was what truly happened, the hickeys on her skin, plus the wetness between her legs proved otherwise.
“Plum, I’m sorry?” she mumbled and slowly sat up. But then, realization hit her.
No! She cannot stay here like a weakling! She must escape from here and look for her husband. Plum cannot be dead! It’s impossible!
She got down from the bed and hurried to the closet. Opening it, there were clothes of all types, in her size, hung in it.
Her gaze traveled around the room and stopped at the door. Jeslyn shook the thought off her mind. If she must escape, going through the door would be a bad idea.
Then her gaze stopped at the curtains and a deranged smile crept onto her lips. She hurried into the bathroom, washed herself in less than five minutes, and ran back out. She picked out black trousers, a tank top and wore black boots.
Jeslyn looked around the room for a harmful object but none was in sight. She locked the door from the inside, grabbed one of the stilettos from the shoe racks and slammed the heel against the mirror.
“Bang!”
“Crrrack!”
The shattering sound of the mirror reverberated in the quiet room. Jeslyn picked a large shard and hurried to the window. She pulled apart the curtains and opened the floor-to-ceiling glass window and ran out of the house.
She froze when she came out into the open. It was a glass house in a bungalow style, in the middle of nowhere.
Around her was a plain land with a few trees, but a few meters ahead, she could see mountains upon mountains, surrounding the glasshouse in the middle.
This is insane! Where the f_ck is this?!
Jeslyn looked back at the house. No way in hell, would she live together with such a man, so she chose to enter the unknown in the bid for an escape. There are many opportunities to ki|| Reuben, but right now, she is at his mercy, something she dreads!
Jeslyn took to her heels and started running ahead. Her thought was that, when she gets to the top of the mountain, she could scout for the road to leave this place.
Meanwhile, behind Jeslyn was Reuben. The man had seen her running away but didn’t chase her. Instead, he came out and leaned on a tree with hands folded on his chest, looking as she ran ahead without uttering a sound.
Jeslyn continued to run. The farther she went, the more troubled she got. She had thought the mountains were a few meters away. She had been running for about twenty minutes and had covered around four to five kilometres, yet she’s nowhere near the mountains.
She was already growing tired by now and needed some rest but the fear that he might be following her, gave her no room for resting.
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, “… ki|| 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.”
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 ki||ed by the sovereign…”