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

“So what’s your point?”

The pupils of Matthew which were as dark as ink shrunk suddenly, which was almost undetectable. His eyes darkened.

Out of consciousness, Coral held the picture more tightly.

“Did you, did you...Is it possible that they are your illegitimate children...”

“No.” Matthew stopped Coral before she could finish her sentence.

He had only had sex with a single woman.

It was impossible that other women would bear his children.

Bastards? How was it possible?

“Coral, aren’t we having dinner tonight?” Looking at the empty kitchen, Matthew saw nothing. The table was carefully cleaned and was as bright as a mirror. It could show the reflection of a person.

Normally at this time, Coral would be in the kitchen preparing dinner. Or maybe dinner was ready for him. But today it seemed different.

Dinner?

Coral’s mouth corner twitched, “You are still in the mood for dinner?”

“...”

“You lost everything. Are you happy now?” While talking, Coral put the picture back to the drawer. She didn’t plan to just let it go, she decided to dig into this.

Matthew frowned. What got into her today?

“Look at this house. Does it look like a home to you? It is big. But does it have vitality? Only an old woman doing chores and a bachelor in his thirties live in this house. What’s the point of having money?” Coral closed the drawer. She was angry and didn’t want to make him dinner.

But she couldn’t. So she went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Matthew looked at Coral’s back, which suggested that she didn’t plan to just let it go. Then Matthew opened the drawer to get the picture. Because he never liked to take pictures, so he didn’t even remember this one. If Coral had not taken it out today, he would have totally forgot about it.

Matthew held the picture and observed it carefully. The eyes and the face...

Hum hum...

The phone in his pocket rang up. There was a moment when a face in his memory flashed across his mind, which looked a lot like the face in this picture. But the ringing interrupted his thought.

and closed the drawer. Then he took out the phone and answered the call. It was Abbott who called him

Abbott, Matthew unbuttoned his shirt and walked

Golden Bay.

dinner. But Dolores stopped her, “Let him meditate on his own faults behind closed doors.

Do you really plan to ban him from dinner?” Jessica disagreed with Dolores.

admit his faults, he won’t have dinner.” Dolores didn’t explain but she was

But for this thing, she must hold on to

just a child now, and he was watching those disgusting stuff. What would he do when

still wanted

mind and rejected any persuasion. If she didn’t set up some rules now, it would only be more difficult for her to discipline him when he grew

Simona up,

to be thinking about what Dolores said. She still

and looked at Jessica. She gave her the answer, “I am serious this time. Don’t think about

whisper, “Dolores, what did Samuel do to make you so

Jessica’s mind, Samuel wouldn’t make big mistakes. Because that boy was smart and

see

Samuel watched and did, Dolores couldn’t speak it out,

and held Simona in

no intention to explain more, so Jessica stopped

cleaned the table and Dolores took

they needed to

out, Jessica filled a bowl with rice and peeled off some shrimp. Then

been taken away by Dolores, so he couldn’t play with it. His telephone was taken away too, so he couldn’t call his teacher to chat with him. He was so bored now. He huddled himself up at the head of the

the bowl on his table, “Come down

Samuel didn’t move.

not eating? You will get hungry at night. As long as

his table

He was truly hungry.

a glass of water.” Jessica was afraid that Samuel was too embarrassed to eat,

If he was starved to death, how could he revenge on that

He had to eat.

sat on his chair and held up the bowl. Then he began

fast because he was afraid that

a glass of water. Watching the way Samuel eats, Jessica could neither laugh nor cry. If someone didn’t know the whole thing, he would think

Don’t choke on it.” Jessica handed him the glass of water so that Samuel could drink some water to wash down

with his mouth full of rice, “Thank you,

down. Your mother won’t be back so fast.” Jessica stood at

his dinner like a

in downtown, the neighborhood could still have large areas of trees and grass. It was indeed hard to