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

Was she about to give birth?

Matthew was instantly awake. He turned on the light by the head of the bed and looked at her worriedly, “Does your stomach hurt?”

Dolores frowned and she looked like she was in pain. Matthew didn’t even put on his slippers when he got out of bed. He walked to her side and said, “I’ll bring you to the hospital.”

He leaned over and tried to carry her. Dolores grabbed his hand and shook her head, “No, it’s not my stomach.”

She couldn’t move. Her body was tense, it was because she had a cramp in her leg.

“My leg cramped,” she said painfully.

Matthew lifted the blanket and examined her legs under the light. He rolled up her pyjamas and could see her fair and slender legs before his eyes, “Which one?”

“The right one,” she frowned even harder. It was as if her nerves were in a knot, she grabbed the blanket tightly and said, “It really hurts.”

Matthew’s face was tense, he tried to massage her cramped leg. He didn’t really know what he was doing, he just wanted to ease her pain.

After a while, the pain was finally eased. Dolores looked up and said, “I feel better now. Let’s go to sleep.”

Matthew sat next to her on the bedside and put her legs on his thighs. He continued massaging them.

“Let’s go to the hospital tomorrow.”

Dolores said, “This is normal. Something like this often happens during the 3rd trimester.”

Matthew pursed his lips and didn’t say anything. He couldn’t take the pain away from her. The only thing he could do was to make her feel as comfortable as he could.

Dolores nuzzled her legs against him, “Do you feel bad for me?”

Matthew slapped her legs lightly, “No.”

Dolores moved her legs away and said coquettishly, “Then go away, I don’t need your massages anymore.”

Matthew grabbed her ankle and said, “Don’t move. Be good, I’ll massage you so that you don’t feel pain.”

“But you don’t feel bad for me, I don’t want your massage.” Dolores arched her legs and tried to move away, not letting him touch them.

Matthew chuckled, “So willful.”

“Well, I am willful. I order

and Dolores returned his flirting

asked, “Where

pointed at

he was about to kiss her and she quickly moved her legs away. She reprimanded him softly, “Matthew

dim light, he had a

Dolores was speechless.

didn’t understand what he was trying to

is

her by my

sat up, she was a bit agitated, “What do you mean? Do you not want the

my child?” Matthew scooted closer and hugged her, “I am thinking that if we have a son, he can get your surname. Since you never changed your

about this before. Dolores kind of understood what

with surnames and

daughter get my surname?” Dolores remembered that Matthew

“Normally, people would favor sons more than daughters. Why are you the other

Suddenly.

Dolores’ phone vibrated.

it up and saw a message from

is it? Is it Theresa?” Dolores took her phone from Matthew, “I messaged her before

read the

Before he could read the message, Dolores

Amanda suddenly moved. She couldn’t feel the person next to her and wanted to open her

her hands and touched her father. She then snuggled in his arms

phone

husband wore a light grey suit, a white shirt and a black tie

is it?” Matthew looked up and

message. She took it as a prank

lay

her leg, he said, “Go ahead and

what Matthew wore daily, it was

up, he noticed that Dolores and Amanda were still fast asleep. He moved as quietly as he could while

vibrated. Amanda was frightened last time by the ringtone because he got a call in the middle of the night. After that night, he would set his phone to vibration before

number. He hesitated briefly, and then

phone next to his ears while walking downstairs with his slippers