Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

Chapter 1

The heat of his body pressed against her and the warmth from his breath tickled her ear.

“Are you scared?” he asked.

His hot breath lingered near her ear, making her shiver and scared to speak. Dolores Flores sensed that the man was holding himself back, his deep voice thick with desire. “It’s still not too late to change your mind.”

Dolores clenched her fists and shook her head nervously. “No, I want this.”

She was in the prime of her life. And yet…

The man leaned forward and his lips brushed the side of her neck. “Good.”

*****

Her night was long and excruciating.

When the man finally got up and went to the bathroom in the latter half of the night, Dolores dragged her exhausted body out of bed. She struggled into her clothes and walked out of the room without a second glance.

The middle-aged woman who introduced Dolores to the business sat on a sofa in the hotel lobby. Seeing Dolores exiting the elevator, the woman stood and handed Dolores a black plastic bag.

“Here’s your payment.”

Without more than a second’s hesitation, Dolores snatched the bag out of the woman’s hand. Giving a curt nod in thanks, Dolores hurried out of the hotel, having forgotten the pain she felt in the lower half of her body. She only wanted to reach the hospital as fast as possible.

The sky was just beginning to show the first rays of light, and the hospital hallway was quiet. Two stretchers were sitting outside of the operating room. Since the two hadn’t the money upfront for the operation, the bodies on the stretchers were still waiting outside, needing a miracle.

Dolores’s heart ached as she approached the two of them.

she spoke. “I have the money. Please save my mom and brother…” she pleaded, handing the money in the

after he was

in the hallway, Dolores grabbed the doctor’s

sorry; it’s already too late to

her cry out. The intense pain in her chest felt like someone had taken a searing hot blade, stabbed her

father cheated and abandoned his wife and daughter. He sent them to

born soon afterward and he was diagnosed with autism when he was three. They’d been living paycheck to paycheck during that time and her brother’s condition made their life harder, though Dolores loved her brother too much to care. She and her mother worked odd jobs to make ends meet, and then a car accident had taken everything Dolores loved in an

it might only make them feel the sky looked gloomy, yet they only had to accept the reality with a smile to feel better, because they still had a

upon discovering the death of her son, she

here,

the edge of her bed. Dolores knew she missed her son.

but Dolores was just glad that

*****

from inside—a voice she was familiar with. Although it had been eight years, she still remembered watching her father forcing her

child marry hers when they grew

you mean? Randolph, you’re not talking about Matthew Nelson, are you?” Jessica asked,

strength from staying in the hospital, struggled to get up. She wanted nothing more than to hit the man, paying no mind to her wound Had he lost his mind? First, he dumped her and her daughter in a terrible place, never paying them anymore mind, and now he was insisting her marry off her daughter to the

your best friend’s son. He was raised well and you know their family status. Marrying the two would only lead to a happy life…” The

by a venomous snake while on a business trip abroad and was paralyzed. Because of his condition, he could no longer take care

the door open, her forgotten bag of food still in her hand. “I’ll do it,” she said, her appearance startling the

whom he hadn’t

had pale skin and she was extremely underweight. Her face seemed small, like she was being pulled into herself. She seemed as

all, she was not that good-looking; it wasn’t too bad to let her marry a cripple who couldn’t have sex. Having thought of this, his guilt vanished and he believed he’d

then out

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