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

Matthew moved his face closer to Dolores’. “If you dare disrespect me like that in the future, I…” He glanced at her lips, leaned down, and bit them.

She felt a sudden pain. The taste of blood spread in her mouth. She grimaced. It hurt, it burned. Matthew really bit her.

“In the future, every time you wrong me, I’ll do this as my way of punishing you. Does that sound fair?”

Dolores felt disoriented as she gazed at the man in front of her. She couldn’t understand the reasoning for behaviors.

“Do you understand what you’re doing right now?”

Speechless, Matthew didn’t know how to answer her question. Every moment that happened after he met Dolores was so unexpected that he lost control of himself and became a different man from who he was in the past.

He realized Dolores wasn’t virtuous, as she was impure, and didn’t respect herself.

However, the fact that he was interested in such an immoral woman, and felt like a real man—a man who had the normal, physical reaction a man should have when facing a woman—was confusing. He hid his emotions well as he stared down at Dolores.

He smiled faintly and asked, “What about you? You rushed forward to protect me from the sword without worrying about your own life. Does that mean…”

As Matthew spoke, his face moved even closer to hers. When Dolores took a step back, he would take a step himself and follow her. They were very close to each other. The smile on his face was slight, soft, gentle, and could hardly be ignored.

“Have you fallen in love with me?”

Was that why she rushed forward without concern for her and her child’s safety when Matthew was in danger?

Matthew remembered how shocked he was when he turned around and saw her rushing over.

Dolores turned away and refused to look at him. “Mr. Nelson, you have quite the sense of humor. I’ve only known you for a few days. How could I fall in love with you so quickly?”

If she didn’t suspect he was the father of her child, she certainly wouldn’t have put herself in such a dangerous situation. She cherished her own life as she had to survive for the sake of her mother and her child.

Matthew didn’t anger. Instead, turning away and leaning back on the sofa, smiling. “Perhaps, you fell in love with me when we first met? Love at first sight. That happens, right?”

He was apparently speaking to Dolores, but it sounded like he was asking a rhetorical question.

hand that had been resting on her leg squeezed tightly, but she responded with a calm demeanor. “I don’t believe in love at the

get some water for herself, deliberately ignoring the topic. They were strangers, but they lived under the same roof due to fate. Now they were talking about the most indescribable word in the world, ‘love.’ She couldn’t help but laugh quietly to

and gazed at the piano placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Depression clouded any happiness she had

*****

Jessica was sober and

Dolores’s

won’t leave.

ended, Dolores would buy a small house to

Are

was very pleased with his personality. Besides, he was also a doctor. If Dolores could leave Matthew and marry Sampson, a majority of their problems would be solved. The problem

and won’t be back for a while,” Dolores said

out what happened that faithful night. So, he should be in

you weren’t pregnant, wouldn’t it be wonderful to be with

a bracelet around

looked up at Dolores in shock, believing she’d never see the bracelet again after Randolph sent them away. “How did you get

me…” Dolores trailed off, not sure how to broach the topic of the main reason for her visit, besides spending time with her mom. “Randolph is in a financial situation and he came to me begging for help

other hand, he was still

bracelet. “I don’t want you to worry about this, Lola. Don’t dwell on the past. Don’t get involved with

understood what her mother meant. No matter what Randolph was like now, regardless of good or bad,

“Okay.”

*****

two of them talked for a while longer, and it was

Dolores headed to the nursing station to ask

her now; doesn’t

some matters and while she does remember things in the short term, but not everything in the long term. We need to keep her under observation for a while still to see if we can figure out what may

to hide her disappointment as she thought Jessica was recovering quickly. “Please take good care of

specifically told us about this, so please don’t

nurse and left the