Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 59: Let me see your legs?..

Jessica walking away had a faint smile on her lips. The night has been fruitful. She didn’t expect Desmond to come to the balcony—making him believe she was genuinely uncertain about Davis’s fate, that she was probing for answers because she lacked confidence in his recovery.

That was exactly what she wanted him to think.

Who would wish their enemy a long life, let alone a chance to rise again? His confidence in Davis’s permanent state of helplessness only confirmed what she had long suspected—he wanted Davis out of the picture entirely.

The more he assumed Davis was doomed, the less cautious he would be. He would slip, make mistakes—mistakes she could use to her advantage.

Desmond might have planned well but like the old man said she will remain an unknown factor in this battle of wits. Her naivety will be her best trump card.

~In another room~

Davis sat in his wheelchair at the center of the room he had been most familiar with, his bedroom from childhood till the time of his accident. His eyes slowly tracing the familiar furnishings and fittings with memories preserved on each of them.

The sky blue coloured wall, the large mahogany table sitting by the window with its surface polished by years of use was once a place he had read and studied on, several photos of the important people in his life were framed and placed on it.

The curtain had been carefully chosen by his mother, an embrace he will never get to hold again, he felt his heart hurt as the memories he never wanted to revisit surfaced.

The bookshelves lined the walls had books he had read and studied to be a better man whose parents should be proud of. Several awards standing on a space in the shelf, a reminder of his efforts and achievements which had all gone down the drain.

Time seemed to stand still in this room, as if the years had frozen in place, unwilling to move forward.

Each corner of the room held traces of the past he had left behind—echoes of laughter, whispered conversations, and moments of peace long lost to the changes that had swept over his life.

his forehead lightly, his fingers pressing against the tension he could

decoration of the room that is in stark contrast to the cold and

walked slowly to the table as she studied each of the frame. They are all women but each with its own

Vera but the other two she guessed must be his mother and sister. She remembered hearing someone say the Allen’s family daughter was missing and

and concern. His still presence, his once-commanding figure now diminished by the wheelchair seemed to hold

his voice breaking the silence

on Davis, observing the subtle changes in his expression since she entered the

the rest." Her voice gentle

He

photo frame in her hand. She had held the photo frame for a longer time because of its striking resemblance to her friend Bella but that’s

was a bit worried, she came closer her hand on his shoulder "Are you

break his gaze, watching her with an intensity that felt almost palpable. In his still, cold, and colorless world, Jessica had

moment, every solitude, seemed to come alive in her presence, it’s as if she brought

her taunting that forced him to sign the marriage documents, her insistence that made him take a tour

as though everything around him always subtly shift whenever she entered, just like now—dull and lifeless before, now radiating with something he couldn’t

her wrist gently and without a word, Davis pulled

belonging to her that he

that existed was the steady rhythm of her breath, the softness of her presence, and the

longing he hadn’t allowed himself to acknowledge for a

The weight of his silence, the tightness in his embrace,

back with a soothing rhythm in a gentle reassurance, as though comforting a child. She understood his mood well, she had