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

He pushed the door open, but there was no one in there.

The bed was empty.

Joan wasn’t surprised, as if he expected Nina to not be in here. He turned and walked towards Amanda’s room, but when he arrived at the door, he realized that it was already too late. He put his hand down and did not disturb their sleep.

“You’re back?”

When Joan turned around, the door opened. Amanda was standing there.

She was a light sleep in foreign places, so she woke up when she heard noises outside the door.

“Did I wake you up?” Joan turned, “You can’t rest well here?”

Amanda looked down, using her silence to admit to his questions.

Even if she was fatigued, she couldn’t sleep well in an unfamiliar place.

“Is your leg better now?” As he said, his gaze averted to her ankle.

Amanda subconsciously moved her leg behind, “Yeah, it’s not swollen anymore. It doesn’t hurt too.”

“Thanks for taking care of Nina for me.”

“Didn’t you take me in too?” Amanda smiled, “Have you eaten?”

He said no.

Sally had already prepared the food and came over, “Sir, dinner is served.”

“Join me for dinner?” He invited, “It’s time for supper anyway.”

Amanda smiled and said, “There’s a tradition back in my country. We should sleep when the time is up and not disturb other people’s rest. And now, it’s time for bed, so I’m afraid I can’t join you.”

had a faint smile on his face. He couldn’t

and sleep early. I’ll take care

“Good night,” Joan whispered.

closed the door, while Joan went to the

bed. She had no idea that Amanda woke up in the middle

the bed, curious as to why Joan, an unmarried man would adopt her instead of sending her to the orphanage. If he was married, had a wife and children, then this wouldn’t have seemed so

her heart, Amanda headed to the

glass of water and

looked up at

smiled, “I

a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth. He

this man was intelligent. He could

lips before continuing, “You’re not married, but why did you adopt Nina? Most men wouldn’t do that,

in dirt. She was brought here by traffickers. Together with another few children, they were nestling at

looked like Thai people, but she was

left behind. They asked her about her parents, but she said her parents passed away and she

going to send her

object

for two days but had never once seen

water. Then, he put the glass down slowly

not tell what he was feeling, “My mother

him too and followed his mother to the after-world. His parents had always been in love with

he had never seen his parents

were any shortcomings, it had to be that his parents only had one child and that they passed away too

to guard this huge

touch of colour to

but he was a warm

had a lot to do with the environment