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

The voice sounded a bit familiar to Dolores, and soon she recognized the person. She stiffed a bit.

She wondered if she should look back or just pretend not to hear her.

Even if they met, she didn’t know what to talk about.

Right then, the person repeated her name and kept looking at her up and down.

Dolores couldn’t pretend that she hadn't heard her anymore, so she looked back.

Sure enough, Marian was standing afar. They were not quite distanced from each other, but Marina changed a lot. She looked much older. She used to take good care of herself, but now she looked even older than her actual age, having a lot of gray hair.

Marian forced a smile. “I thought I called the wrong person.”

As she spoke, she looked at Dolores’s belly. It had slightly bulged now. She asked, “Almost five months old, is it?”

Dolores hummed. “Almost.”

“Are you shopping here?” asked Marina.

Dolores said yes.

“Are you in a hurry? If not, there’s a cafe on the sixth floor. Shall we have a talk?” Marina suggested.

Dolores pressed her lips without speaking. She wondered what she could talk about with Marina.

“I don’t mean anything, just want to talk to you. I’m alone at home, always bored,” said Marina with a smile.

Since she said so, Dolores would be quite heartless if she kept refusing. Even if she didn’t want to mention her relationship with the Harris family, Marina didn’t do anything wrong. They used to talk with each other like a family and have meals together.

“Please wait for me,” Dolores said to the driver.

The latter nodded. “Okay, Mrs. Nelson.”

“There’s an elevator.” Marian pointed at the elevator and said.

Dolores walked over. They wait for the elevator to come down and went to the sixth floor. Marina chose an inner corner next to the window. It was quiet in the cafe, and there were almost no customers.

ordered a cup of coffee and looked over at Dolores. She asked,

of fruit

the waiter and said, “A

and asked, “What

would be

“Okay, Ma’am.” He left.

and Marina looked at each other in silence for a while. Dolores didn’t know how to start

wasn’t

Dolores couldn’t find any

the baby grows to, you’ll

I heard others were quite sleepy at the beginning,

birth before, so they had some common topics. “When I was carrying Noah, I also became sleepy very late. You didn’t get fat at all. I gained a lot of weight at

because of my constitution. I could

still wanted to say something, the waiter came over. He served Marina with the coffee and Dolores with the juice. “Please

faintly. After he left, she picked

coffee but didn’t drink. She was considering how to

say, the atmosphere

end, she

with Noah?” Marina

Dolores answered honestly, “No.”

left town, she didn’t contact anyone, because she didn’t want to know what happened after

avoid anyone and anything

the coffee mug. “Have you heard things about

asked, she didn’t look at

Dolores clenched her hands under the table but didn’t

a smile, she said in an ironic tone, “It was on news. Everyone should

matter what, you should persuade Matthew. For your sake, he wouldn’t

However, she didn’t speak it out. No matter Marina hate or complain about her, Dolores didn’t

trapped by things that had happened in the past. All she wanted was to

have conflicts with

he cared too much about Jolene.” Marina looked up at Dolores. “Your uncle went to turn himself in. Please don’t feel any pressure when facing Matthew. You don’t owe him anything. Your uncle has done so

a happy family before, but right now she was the only one at

her first time coming out shopping after Jeffery was put in jail. Her

much she wanted to avoid, even if she had deliberately ignored something, it still