Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 86: Just wait, Jessy...

"Can you not leave me?"He asked gazing into her eyes. His heart hammering with fear of her answer —rejection, disappointment, divorce or whatever.

He was the one that drafted their contract —recalling its content of divorce made him regret drawing it up in the first place.

He wished he could revoke it. But then who wants to spend an eternity with a crippled man?

Though, she is planning a therapy for him but what happens when she didn’t want to continue? What happens if she meets a man she falls in love with, when I am just a burden...?

Jessica silently and gently tucked the blanket around him as though in contemplation. Unaware of the series of questions and thoughts going on in Davis head as her silence was ominous to his racing thought.

"I know you might have felt a bit too tired, but can you not leave me or refuse me? I will try to be a better version of myself—one that you did be proud of.

He felt anxious, he is not talking about now or later? He didn’t want to imagine how his life will end up if the only light in his heart goes off.

Slowly, she looked down at him, her heart tightening lightly. His usual stoic expression was nowhere to be found—only vulnerability remained. His deep, swirling eyes held fear, concern, dependence, and hope all in one gaze.

She swallowed. "Davis, I’m not going anywhere you know," she murmured, brushing her fingers lightly over his hand.

"Jessica?," he whispered, his grip tightening slightly.

Jessica sighed, as she settled down beside him. A faint smile tugging her lips as silently recalled the past.

know my father had mercilessly tossed me into this marriage,"

life of misery by giving me to a man who was

but she squeezed his hand before he could

curving into a soft smile. "Staying with you these past few months has been nothing like what I imagined." She said falling into the recollection of the journey so

more like another adventure where you want to turn the tides, turn the stories, turn the expectations of the people plotting your misery—a case where you have to make the decision of

and his breath

she cut in before he could dismiss her words. "You are so much more than what people see. And you do not need to bother thinking about me

just on a reason—you turned away first because I am not the kind of lady who hangs around to wait for

just enough to thread his fingers through hers. "Then I promise such day won’t

make that decision so early because you need to think

is yet to understand what he wants. Why promise when he

but when I do I follow to the last

a woman and yet another woman pulled him from the brink of death. If he couldn’t fall in love with the woman, who can? But then

he gazed at her "Jessica, no matter what you find out, or what people try to make

words and his request of her promise. She knew there was something

"I promise," she whispered.

sealing the moment into his heart. When he opened them again, some of the tension had

hand one last squeeze before releasing it. "Remember your word, if you ever try to