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

Jessica stopped washing the vegetables on her hand, seemingly not expecting her daughter to ask this question out of the blue, “Why do you want to know?”

Dolores lowered her head, “I just want to know, after all, when you planned the marriage with him, I was only two years old, why would you…”

“The past stays in the past, can’t remember them anyways.” Jessica didn’t want to talk about the past; she put the washed vegetables on the shelf and looked at her daughter. Her keen sense told her that Dolores was acting abnormally, “Tell me, what’s wrong?”

Dolores could tell that Jessica didn’t want to talk about it, so she didn’t press it but instead took the chance to test her, “Mrs. William wants to start a branch, she wants me to be in charge of it...“

“That’s good news.” Jessica answered.

She pushed her daughter away, “Let me cut the vegetables.”

Dolores stepped back and leaned against the stove, and thought for a bit while, “But the address of the branch is in China...“

“What?”

Dolores hadn’t had the chance to finish her sentence; Jessica had already interrupted her. She also knew that LEO had a rule: they will never have any branch in any other country.

Mrs. William now wanted to have a branch in China?

Jessica frowned. Weird kinds of stuff were happening one after another recently. She put down the kitchen knife and wiped her hands on the apron, tugging her daughter’s arm, “Tell me the truth, are these stuff related to him?”

Dolores figured that Jessica would have to know if she was going back to the country anyway.

Dolores admitted, “Yea…”

“What are you thinking?!” Jessica glared at her angrily. How could she forget her sufferings so fast?

“Tell me, what condition were you in at that time? Where was he when you were in the most difficult situation? If it wasn’t for Sampson Herbert, how would you still be here? How can you not tell the difference between good and bad?”

Dolores twisted her head. Indeed she was reluctant to return to the country, partly because of what happened in the past, and partly because of Matthew Nelson.

She knew it was a trade, but when he proposed a divorce, she was somehow sad.

After the car crash, she became even more exhausted, both physically and mentally.

to the place where

her stance, if I don’t go back, I’m going to lose my job.” Dolores was the only breadwinner in the family; this job

up the kitchen knife again, slicing potatoes one by one. She was

was taken aback; Jessica

“But under one condition.”

she knew it won’t be that

and then

Jessica was more optimistic about Sampson, who had helped Dolores

“Mom...“

for your own good. What’s wrong with Sampson? He’s handsome, he has the power. Most importantly, he

accompanied her during her most challenging moment, helping her and

these, she knew

“But I...”

wait for you?” Jessica also had concerns about Sampson minding Dolores giving birth before, but

he minded, he would’ve not accompanied Dolores for

but she couldn’t stay unmarried for the rest of her life. Jessica thinks that Sampson was the best

pregnant, still

lowered her head; what Jessica

know was Sampson’s mother had

a human, too; she had a heart too.

all, he treated

always worried about her future, afraid that

that Sampson’s mother approached her before, telling her that she hopes Sampson not to marry Dolores,

I don’t like won’t make me

can be cultivated, as soon as you get married and live

was helpless. She lowered her head and rubbed her forehead, feeling

didn’t understand Matthew’s

She was feeling helpless.

“Mommy.”

small figure, he stood upright. He had heard everything Dolores and Jessica said; he

now that we can go back, isn’t that a

Jessica waved her hand, suggesting him to