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

Gerben blinked his eyes and asked, “Was it always unforgivable when men made mistakes?”

Amanda was curious. It wasn’t the first time Gerben asked her this question. Why was that?

“You wanted me and him to get back together?”

Gerben cleared his throat, “I’m only curious about how much a man would pay for their mistake. If you could forgive him this time, then it meant he could make a bigger mistake.”

Amanda felt speechless.

“I was joking,” Gerben started the car engine, “Are you going back to the hotel?”

“No, we’re going to J&Y Group,” said Amanda.

“You can leave work for tomorrow. You should take a rest today,” said Gerben. He was worried that it would be overwhelming for Amanda to face Stanford right after she got off the plane.

Amanda looked outside the window, “Let’s just go to J&Y Group.”

Amanda wanted to solve everything as soon as possible. Her parents were worried about her. It was time for her to go back and visit them.

Amanda wanted to take revenge on Stanford, so she had been hiding from her parents for the past year. Her parents cooperated with her and stayed hidden, but Amanda knew that they were missing her all along.

Amanda didn’t want to stay in this place. She wanted to get it over with and start a new life.

Amanda didn’t want the past to haunt her.

After all, life was a long journey.

Gerben said, “I’m not sure if Stanford is in the office. Let me call and ask them.”

Then, Gerben gave a call to Stanford’s secretary to ask if Stanford was in the office today.

The secretary answered Gerben, “Mr. James isn’t in the office.”

“Ms. Flores came back. She needs to talk to Mr. James,” said Gerben.

The secretary paused for a while then replied to Gerben Harvie, “Let me come back to you, alright?”

“Sure.”

Atwood

and check

water when he felt thirsty, but Stanford had

Atwood was worried.

secretary called to ask if Atwood knew where Stanford was. “Mr. Harvie called to tell us that Ms. Flores came back

back?” Atwood was

the only one

was startled by the excited tone Atwood displayed over the phone, “Yes, Ms.

I’ve got the message. Ask her to come to

“Sure.”

upstairs and rushed to Stanford’s room upon hanging up the phone. He saw Stanford

was stunned by

seen Stanford looking

down and walked into the room softly. He lowered

Atwood repeated, “Mrs. James came

Amanda so much earlier,

her, and he didn’t even dare

a chance to apologize to her now. You can still make it up to

stared at Atwood

confident at

for Atwood.

affirmably, “She used to love you so much. She’ll give you a chance

of what Atwood said. He wouldn’t have forgiven

stood up. However, his legs were numb after sitting on the ground for

“Wait for me downstairs.”

at least decent to meet Amanda. Stanford wanted to appear in front of Amanda in his best

nodded and

formal black shirt. The shirt was initially well-fitted, but it seemed a little big for Stanford now.

trying his best to conceal his exhaustion, but he couldn’t cover up the miserable

room. Atwood raised his head when he heard Stanford came down. He felt

go get the car,” Atwood walked out of the

looked around. It was the place where Stanford and Amanda lived together for

many memories