Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 9: 9 The ghas just begun

"I want my mother's belongings and the safe which have been moved from my room before | leave for the

Allen's", she said icily.

George didn't expect this to be her condition. Looking at Jessica's nonchalance, Risa's pleading eyes and Clara's

light caress on his arm; it is already clear the unspoken hope they had on him and Jessica's taunt if he fails the

challenge. Should he refuse her condition, how will he get away from the Allen family? And should he agree, how

possible is it that he will get his hand on the belongings again?

"l agree", he stated as he struggled to maintain his calm. He had encountered so many powerful opponents

calmly in the business world but Jessica's request has unraveled him more than he had expected. He didn't

expect Jessica to remember of those belongings and the safe. She had been a little over seven years when she

left for the countryside.

"Okay, | will be waiting for the items", she smirked as she pushed her seat back and stood up.

Looking at their faces scrunched with fury, she was in happy mood. She haven't felt this good in ages. Lightly

patting Risa's back "Have a good night Sis", She smirked as she sauntered upstairs to her room.

"Bang", Clara and Risa flinched in shock. George was blazing in fury, his eyes reddened in anger. Clara distanced

herself from him.

"Have you seen the result of your decision to bring her back?", he growled.

"Honey, this isn't the end of it", Clara said as her eyes flashed with calculations. It is clear she has another plot

underway.

"What do you mean?" He asked, his tone a suppressed anger.

Clara looked around the dining room and not seeing any maid in sight, he whispered her plans into George's ear.

His face brightened immediately at the suggestion. But then a trace of worry etched his face "Is this possible and

wouldn't back fire?"

Clara shook her head "no matter how old she might have grown straits can't be wiped out so we explore her

weakness when the tcomes." She stated.

"Mom, Dad | am been kept in the dark. What is the deal?" Risa asked. Clara patted her daughter's back urging

her to calm down. "As long as am not made to marry that cripple any arrangement is fine", Risa muttered before

she made her way upstairs.

Jessica returned to her room fulfilled, looking at the moonlight shining in through the windows she felt her

burden take away.

Though, she didn't expect the marriage alliance with the Allen family and she couldn't predict the result she

might receive in this journey she promised to make the best use of it. When she sets her plans in motion, the

title of Mrs. Allen will play a crucial role. She retrieved her phone and quickly dialed a number through her speed

dial "I need information on the events happening in the Allen family asap", she said with a faint tone.

"I will gather as much as I can”, the voice responded. Jessica set her phone down and sat down on the bed while

she let her mind travel back at the ther mother had instructed her on the things in the safe. She needed

them back, complete and in order without omitting any one.

~The next morning~

The sun rose very early in the morning as if in a hurry to witness the scene of events in the Brown family.

In Jessica's room the sun filtered through, its rays illuminating the room as its golden streaks lined the walls. She

lay still in a peaceful slumber without any care in the world.

Her phone placed on the bedside dinged with a new notification and in a few moments its ringing interrupted the

tranquility, Jessica groggily stretched her hand and picked up the call "Yes, did you find anything?" After listening

for a while to what the caller has to say she rubbed her brows "Alright, you keep an eye on them and inform me

of any of their moves." She instructed calmly.

Lifting herself up from the bed, she placed the call on the handsfree mode to prepare for the day.

"Why are you investigating the Allen's, you don't have any business feud with them or are you planning any

corporations with them?" Richard voice filtered through the phone.

"It's a new adventure so just to be prepared." She chimed.

"Ahh, a new adventure? What do you mean? Can you make it clear? What are stakes?", Richard chirped.

"Noisy", she muttered and ended the call as she rubbed her eye brow. Talking with Richard had always drained

her of every ounce of strength. She couldn't help but wonder the level of energy pack God had deposited in him.

As she looked at herself in the mirror, she contemplated what faced her and how she will have to navigate it but

then one thing is certain—"the ghas just begun." While she put down eyeliner, a knock cthrough the

door followed by the voice of the maid "Master wants you downstairs."

"Alright, | will be right over in a minute", she answered back. After a few moments, footsteps of the maid echoed

down the hallway. Jessica picked up her bag on the bed and made her way downstairs, her face without any

expression.

Yesterday she had returned to this house as a Brown family daughter and today just like years back she is

leaving again and this tit is even more ridiculous —she had been married off to a cripple without her consent

but this time—she promised to let them know they had been wrong all along.

Jessica entered the living and found them all sitting as though they had been waiting for her. She set down her

bag beside her as she sat down on one of the sofas "Where is it?" She asked with an edge to her voice.

"Don't be in a hurry, you will get it but then you have to sign this document." George stated as he pushed the

document on the table to her.

"Sign a document?", she asked icily.

"Yes, it is a guarantee to see that you maintain the end of your bargain even in the future", George replied.

"Oh, really?" She asked calmly with faint traces of doubt in her tone which was picked up by the shrewd George

Brown.

She had expected the Brown family to try backtrack on their end of the bargain and at last they didn't disappoint

her. She didn't know how her mother managed to get herself entangled with a man who is as vile as George.

Clara and Risa couldn't help but clench their fist in nervousness as they wait for her to pick the pen held out to

her. Jessica's smile was cold.

"Are you sure you wantto sign or do you want to wait for the Allen family to arrive and be disappointed not

to have a bride with them?", she asked colly her aura sending shivers down their spine.

Seeing her unflinching attitude. George lost his temper and raised his hand to slap her but then —"are you ready

for the consequence?" She smirked making George's hand pause mid air.

"Alright, give her the box", he said and a maid cforward with a box. Jessica accepted the box with trembling

hands and tears stung in her eyes. Quietly she opened the box checking the box content one after another.

"Sdocuments are missing from the box", she stated calmly. Clara averted her gaze from her. She didn't

expect her to remember the content of the box since she was but a child at that time.

"Dad, if you are not ready to keep the end of your bargain then we have nothing to say", she rose from her seat

to make her way back to her room.

After she took a few steps, a maid cin to announce the arrival of Allen family car with the butler. They have

cto pick the bride.

The Brown family held their breath,

they did not expect the Allen family to

arrive this early. They pad hoped to

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Jessica stopped in her track. Looking at their pale faces, she turned to face Risa; her smile unsettling "Dear

sister, your father couldn't keep his end of the bargain so | can't marry in your place, good luck", she smirked as

walked out.

"Dad, mom, | can't marry him. Just grant her request so she can go", Risa shrieked as tears glistened in her eyes

unshed.

Looking at his daughter and wife

whose eyes are pleading to save

Risa, George knew he had lost to

Jessica. With STR of strength

" h o .

in will give it to

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you", George said; Jessica halted in

her tracks as she turned around to

face the man who wields the title as

her father. Then to the family butler

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Jessica couldn't help but wonder why Risa's tears can make their father change his mind while she can be

sacrificed. It really hurts but there is no need to cry over it again. She had wished and prayed before but now—

she must take the law in her hands.

George returned to his room and cout with a poly security bag having water and weather resistant ability

and handed over to Jessica.

She opened the document bag and

carefully checked the contents of

each of them. After she made spre

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look at George. "Fine', she spurned

on her heels with her bag on one

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Looking at her back which is similar to her mother, he was reminded of Nora. Her confidence, her arrogance that

had always surpassed him. He couldn't help but clench his fist, his anger palpable.

As she drew close to the door, George's voiced rang behind her "Jessica, you represent the Brown family. Always

remember that".

Jessica smiled without any response and with a click the door shut behind her.

Nobody had cared to see her off, nobody had lead her to the door. Just like fifteen years ago, she had been

pushed into a taxi and sent to the countryside.