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.”

his face. He couldn’t retort to

night and sleep early. I’ll

“Good night,” Joan whispered.

closed the door, while Joan went to the dining

She had no idea that Amanda woke up in the middle of the night at

curious as to why Joan, an unmarried man would adopt her instead of sending her to the orphanage. If he was married,

Amanda headed

glass

looked up

“I won’t

Once he was done, he picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth. He asked her, “You have questions for

man was intelligent. He could always

“You’re not married, but why did you adopt

I just wanted to raise her.” Joan replied simply. The first time he saw Nina, her body was covered in dirt. She was brought here by traffickers. Together with another few children, they were nestling at

rescued, he noticed that the other children looked like Thai people, but she was different. Plus, she

about her parents, but she said her parents passed away and she was

officers were going to

object this?”

here for two days but

put the

was calm. One could not tell what he was feeling, “My mother passed

and followed his mother

could remember, he had never seen his parents

loving family. If there were any shortcomings, it had to be that his parents only had one child and that they passed away too

alone to guard

added a touch of colour to his

uniform, but he was

to do with the environment he grew up