#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S3
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 62
Jeslyn remembered the time she woke up with hickeys on her. If she wasn’t mistaken, that was two weeks ago. In other words, she’s indeed pregnant for that monster?!
“Ahhh!!!” She screamed, throwing the covers off and got out of bed. She caught sight of surgical tools beside her on the bed. She grabbed the scissors and held it with all her might as she made her way out of the room in her white pyjamas.
“Ms. Jeslyn, please wait up, don’t—” One of the nurses tried to stop Jeslyn, but another shook her head, stopping anyone from dissuading Jeslyn.
After Jeslyn left the room in a fit of rage, the nurse who prevented the others from stopping Jeslyn said with everyone else looking at her.
“If she manages to kill him, we can leave here.”
“And if she gets killed?”
“He won’t kill her, I’m sure of that,” the second nurse said.
“Bold of you to assume that, hmph!”
…
Jeslyn arrived at the sitting room, but Reuben was nowhere in sight.
Believing he was still in the house, Jeslyn started searching the doors until she saw him in the kitchen.
“You are awake. Why are you here? I was preparing you some porridge.” He smiled as he made his way to her.
Jeslyn held the scissors tightly behind her back like she was summoning strength from it.
“You look angry. Did you have a bad dream?”
Jeslyn didn’t respond and waited for him to get closer and closer. Just when he was close enough, she brought forward the scissors and dug it into his chest!
Reuben immediately slapped Jeslyn’s hand away before she could push the scissors deeper. He pulled the scissors out and threw it to the floor with blood on it.
His aura changed as he approached her with much hatred in his eyes. Unlike before, Jeslyn didn’t flinch. She stood there like an angry bull, waiting to launch another attack.
When Reuben was close enough, she threw a punch at him, but he easily deflated it. With just one hand, he grabbed her fist, applied pressure and turned her around, pinning her hand behind her back. He slammed her against the aluminium door, facing the front.
“Ah!”
Jeslyn whimpered, but he didn’t care this time.
“I’ve done nothing but respect you and treat you well, never hurting you or going after your life. But each chance you get, you aim for my life! Rossa, I don’t want to die just yet, not in your hands, nor anybody’s!” He shoved her to the floor and watched her struggle to get up.
“I was being gentle with you, but not anymore!” He turned and left, ignoring what he was cooking.
After he left, he made another call.
“Release everything. Also, tell them she’s two weeks pregnant for me.”
At the capital, another news hit the media.
Pictures of Jeslyn and Reuben meeting up in front of Fearless Entertainment surfaced on the internet. The pure joy on her face when she saw Reuben was the kind of smile only a woman who is deeply in love would give her beloved.
When the pictures that were taken from angles that only made the two intimate were published, a lot of people were left wondering what was going on in the second branch of the Lu family.
The headlines weren’t even helping matters.
[ The people’s favourite, VJ Cute couldn’t bear her husband’s infidelity and found solace in the hands of another charming man who had genuinely loved her since childhood. ]
[ Breaking news!
VJ Cute has sent divorce papers to her ex-husband and had no intention of going back because she is two weeks pregnant for her fiance, Reuben Yu! ]
The internet was in a frenzy. Most people were left in a situation where they couldn’t seem to understand what was going on anymore.
Some found it strange that Jeslyn would immediately move on after her husband was caught cheating and now she’s pregnant.
The last set were the fans that supported wh@tëver decision their favourite decides to make in life, provided she’s happy.
Among the few who were enraged that a loving couple like Alpha Chaos and Jeslyn had been torn apart was the antagonist of the story himself, Maverick.
All these while, he had been trying to suppress his anger, but now, they’ve finally ruined his self-control.
“Every media that was bold enough to publish such news, burn them down. I don’t care if souls are in the building!”
“Yes, boss!”
“The one behind the pictures, find him no matter where he is. Dig out his bones if he is already dead!”
“Yes, Master!”
“The Yu family, bring me Reuben’s favourite person and the Yu’s living ancestors.”
“Yes, boss!”
“Get Spid and his team on standby. Whoever leaves a senseless comment, I don’t want to know what part of the world they are in. Find them and when you do, make sure you reap them so much that in five years, they won’t be able to purchase a new phone or computer.”
“Understood!”
Rex, Fin, Matt and Celestine sat there quietly as they looked at the man dishing out orders with an overwhelming cold aura. None of them tried to stop him. He had been angered to the core, and this was the first time he had gotten this angry.
Even when Rex was almost drowned by his mother, Maverick wasn’t this angry. Only God knows what will be ruined before this anger subsides.
“Brother, why do you want to get the Yu’s living ancestors involved?” Rex was the only one bold enough to speak.
“If a child is not cautioned by their parents when doing something wrong, the parents share in the blame when the child runs wild… What hospital was that woman sent to?”
“You mean the one you are accused of cheating with? She’s with a psychologist, she’s getting better now.”
“Go get her. She better have useful information to exchange for her life.” He leaned back into his chair and grabbed a glass of drink, and downed its contents in a go.
“Brother, please take it easy! She wasn’t part of the plan to—”
“You won’t know until you find out. You’d better do what he asks you before you get burned,” Fin intervened.
The private room was looking overly gloomy and none of them was interested in lighting the atmosphere because, just as Maverick was deeply wounded, so were their hearts in severe pain.
All through the day, nobody on the internet said a word about Maverick and Jeslyn’s matter anymore. Unlike before where everyone would want to become the judge of other people’s lives, the media was so silent that one would think everyone finally got a life.
This was definitely not the result Reuben and his friend wanted, but what could be done? No matter how many pictures and ‘proves’ they posted, no matter how elegant their lies were written online, nobody said a thing under the comments.
However, humans will always be humans. They talk about it offline with friends and families and try to analyze the matter while many h@tëd Maverick even more for taking away their ‘freedom of speech’ but even at that, ranting was done offline.
The R@PE victim had been questioned and she knew nothing about the whole incident. According to her, she was in the restroom when the hotel was raided and had no idea. By the time she got out, some Xu men who were patrolling the restroom area took her away to the male restroom and took advantage of her.
Her story was too touching for anyone to bother her anymore. So Maverick was left with nothing but to continue terrorizing everyone on his list until someone tells him the whereabouts of Damien.
A few hours later, a young lady of about twenty years was taken to Maverick, alongside the three living ancestors of the Yu family.
The old men didn’t put up a resistance nor did they allow the family to fight to keep them. From what has been happening around the Capital for two weeks, they all know Maverick has hit his extreme boiling point and it wouldn’t do them any good if they ruffled his feathers more.
Standing in front of Maverick in his torture chambers were the three living ancestors and the young lady, who was forced to her knees.
Maverick, who was sitting on a chair with eyes closed with his back resting on the chair, slowly opened his eyes and rested them on the young lady who didn’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation. She was kneeling there with the effrontery to glare defiantly at him.
He leaned forward with a small dagger dancing in his hand.
“Where is Reuben?” he asked her.
“I don’t know where–”
“You don’t think I would have brought you here if I believed that, do you?”
“I’m speaking the truth, I don’t know where my cousin is!… And even if I do, why would I tell you?” She yelled.
Maverick looked at her one minute longer and his lips curled into a smile.
“Hang her on the fan, ” he instructed.
The guards didn’t waste time and immediately went for her.
“Wh– what are you doing?! Let me go?! I said let me go!!” She continued screaming and struggling as they dragged her away.
When her screaming and resistance were getting too much, they sent her to sleep. Once the place had regained its silence again, one of the living ancestors who was counting his beads finally said.
“You know this will not yield the result you’re looking for.”
Maverick got up and started walking around the torture tool. As he brushed his fingers through the cold metals, he replied; “What do you think I want?”
“Aren’t you trying to use us as a hostage to fetch him out?” another chimed in.
“Oh, no. You’re mistaken,” Maverick replied nonchalantly.
“What do you want with us then?”
“Simple.” He grabbed a long and cleanly made sword and swung it to feel the monstrosity. “You are called ancestors, but should be resting in your graves.”
“Imprudence!” one of the elders yelled. “Lu Ren, don’t beat more than you can chew!”
“A little birdie told me that Reuben’s most favourite person is that girl hanging from the ceiling and an old man who had been feeding his hollow mind with filth. Step out on your own if you don’t want the blood of your mates in your hands.”
“Lu Ren, what are you talking about? We banished Reuben from the family after he returned.”
“Sure you did.” Maverick started walking towards them while dragging the sword behind him.
The sound of the sword scraping the floor made everyone in the cell shudder. The aura of death hovered over everyone as the grim reaper continued to terrorize his targets.
“Lu Ren, calm down. You are angry right now and it has clouded your judgment!” one of them tried to reason with him.
“It would have been more useful to your grandson if you had told him that earlier.”
He swung his sword and chopped off a living ancestor’s arm.
“Argh!”
“Lu Ren!” one of the other two yelled.
“His blood is on your hands.”
He was about to swing the blade again, probably to chop off the remaining hand or clip his head off when one of the ancestors yelled.
“Stop! What do you want with me?”
Maverick threw the sword to one of his men and pointed at an electrocution chair.
“Go sit on it. I need to send a gift to your favorite, for being a father.”
“Lu Ren, we can resolve this diplomatically. You don’t have to do this!” The man implored.
“Diplomatically… Your favourite doesn’t understand that term, so why should I?”
“Damien…He won’t be pleased that you–”
“We’ll see about that.” Maverick gestured to his people and they dragged the old man to an electrocution chair.
Maverick looked at the two living ancestors. One with a chopped-off hand, crying his eyes out and the other standing there and counting beads with his eyes closed. But the sweat on his forehead and his trembling fingers and lips told of his fear.
“You, with the one hand, can you manage yourself to the hospital?”
“Lu Ren! This is the beginning of your troubles! You’ll die mis–”
“Seems you don’t care about your life as I thought.”
Maverick took his dagger and went to stand in front of the man with one hand. He lowered his height and raised the old man’s jaw with his finger, forcing the man to behold his cold and dead chocolate eyes.
“Do you have any regrets?” Maverick asked the old man who was glaring viciously at him.
“My only regret is not urging your ancestors to kill you when you showed a rebellious trait years ago!” The old man yelled.
With one hand holding the man’s jaw, the other held the dagger across his throat. Then he said, “Clearly, you don’t know your priorities. I’ll tell you what your regrets should be. Your regrets should be, ignoring Reuben when he decided to antagonize me.” He slowly drove the dagger into the old man’s throat.
Blood splattered onto his face but he was more concerned with the horrid look on the old man’s face.
The other living ancestor stopped counting the beads and slowly opened his eyes to see the dead body of one of them.
The old man staggered back as Maverick stood up to his feet and pointed the dagger at him.
“Do you want to speak or?” Maverick asked.
“Do you want to kill me?” the old man asked.
“If you ask me, I’d like to send you to rest. But I heard Damien is attached to you. On account of that, my mind is wavering.”
“Fair enough, but I have no idea where Reuben is. He even attacked his own family,” The old man explained.
“Not bad. The serpent you trained to be used on your enemies is biting back… send him home in one piece!”
After the old man was sent away, Matt entered the cell and leaned on the door.
“You’ve been talking too much lately and haven’t slept a wink in four days. Mav, you need some–”
“Is the camera ready?”
“Yes, boss!”
“Mav, listen to me! Your he–”
“Start filming!” Maverick interrupted again.
“Mav!” Matt stormed into the torture room and grabbed Maverick by the arm, forcefully turning him around to face him. “If you don’t listen to me and take a break right now, I’ll quit being your personal doctor!”
Maverick stared at Matt for a moment, then curled his lips into a smirk, “Start the execution!” He ordered before brushing Matt’s hand off his shirt.
“Yes boss!” The men chorused and continued doing their thing while filming it.
“Mav!” Doc Matt took a deep breath to calm down. “Fine, we all know you’re angry at us. Spill it and stop buckling it all up.”
Maverick stopped to look at him. “Go back,” he said, then turned away.
“Mav–”
“Matteo, go back to the others!”
Doc Matt stood stunned for a long time. How long has it been? He was so used to his nickname that he almost forgot his name was Matteo.
With this, it was clear that Maverick was very angry at them. He left his wife in their care, but she had to do lots of dangerous things and was even kidnapped right under their noses when she had a ticking-time-bomb-illness residing inside her.
Matt sighed. Although it was no one’s fault, they can’t pretend like they didn’t neglect her.
Matt turned and left. When he got to the others, they asked him what the result was.
“I’ve never seen him this angry,” he said.
“What should we do to make things right?” Fin asked.
“He didn’t allow me into his house last night,” Rex sighed.
“He wouldn’t take my calls either,” Celestine added.
“The only remedy I see here is to find his wife,” Fin concluded.
