Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 26: Where is the marriage Certificate?

"W-what are you doing?" she stammered, her voice almost in a whisper as she glanced quickly at the front seat.

She has to admit it, being too close to him always left her flustered, her heart racing as his hand clasped tightly at her waist. She couldn’t help screaming in her heart .

"Who asked her to tease him?"She couldn’t help but wonder what he is going to do next.

"Didn’t you just say we make a pair?" He asked with a bright smile that made her fall in to a trance. The face, the eyebrows—all seems familiar as though she had encountered it some where but she couldn’t place the face familiarity amongst her encounter.

This lingering familiarity has been there since the first day she met him in the study to sign the marriage registration documents. She had waved it off but now —she has to think harder but no recollection whatsoever.

She sighed heavily as she pulled out of her reverie only to discover Davis face a few inch closer. Her heart which seems to have been calmed down raced again with trepidation, her heart thumped rapidly in her chest—loud and clear in her ears.

Heat rushed up to her face, she blushes at the closeness. Her head screaming of the danger of their closeness; her thought clouded by the heat rising in her body due to Davis hand clasped tightly on her waist.

For the past twenty two years of her life, she has only maintained a casual body contact with the opposite sex— hand shake, side hug, a pat on the shoulder. But Davis had clasped her waist without informing her and still refused to let go.

many emotions with one dominant —hesistance. He stretched his hand and raised the privacy partition to separate them from Ethan and the driver.

Ethan glanced at each other and promptly reduced the notice

pull back or stay in place. Her thoughts were jumbled. Slowly, Davis pulled back. Jessica sighed

to his shoulder while lightly patting her back "Take a rest", he

change in his expression. She relaxed as she adjusted to a more comfortable position. It felt as though she had done this several times beforehand and she felt safe. A feeling that had eluded her fifteen years

end in a while. She sighed heavily releasing the pent up stress threatening to crush her. "It was really hectic

at her incredulously. She didn’t show any weakness when

me when we arrive", she muttered as she drifted

He felt déjàvu at his series of actions. It was so real and familiar that

asleep", he instructed the driver

is right this time. Though, his intention of giving Davis a useless bride is to ensure

girl sleeping beside him, the reason why she had entered his life, the familiarity he felt though it was fleeting, the heartbreak he had experienced— all in all

need for them to discuss the parameters of their marriage though forced to marry but it is real and legal. He

through his mind. He assured himself that this is just an arranged marriage by the family— no need to bother about