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

and sleep early. I’ll

“Good night,” Joan whispered.

door, while Joan

bed. She had no idea that Amanda woke up in

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 strange. But it was unusual for an unmarried man

Amanda headed

poured herself a glass

looked up at

“I won’t

he picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth. He asked her,

that this man was intelligent.

not married, but why did

to raise her.” Joan replied simply. The first time he saw Nina, her body was covered in

noticed that the other children looked like Thai people, but she was different. Plus, she was calm and even thanked those

about her parents,

to send her

your family object this?”

had been here for two days but had never once seen

Then, he put the glass down slowly and said,

One could not tell what he was feeling,

him too and followed his mother to the after-world.

he had never seen his

grew up in a warm and loving family. If there were any shortcomings, it had to be that his parents only

left him alone to guard this huge

of colour to his simple

uniform, but he

with the