Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 284: He was wronged...

Lady Matilda felt a sudden throb in her temple. The headache wasn’t just from fatigue, it was from sheer disbelief.

She hadn’t known her son-in-law had been waiting outside her home all this while.

Her sharp gaze landed squarely on Jessica. "Are you truly human?" she hissed. "How could you leave your husband out there in the cold, in the dead of night, just waiting for you?"

Jessica blinked, stunned.

"Why didn’t you bring him in?" Lady Matilda’s voice cracked like a whip.

Jessica’s lips parted, desperate to explain herself, but no words came. What excuse could she possibly give? Everything she could think of sounded either pathetic or disrespectful.

With this grandmother, Jessica always seemed to be on the losing end of the battle. Every. Single. Time.

As she scrambled for the right words, Lady Matilda’s voice exploded again—louder, fiercer.

"Are you less than any of the Santiagos that you would leave your husband out like a beggar? For no reason at all?"

Jessica flinched. The question stabbed deeper than she expected.

"When did he arrive?" Lady Matilda snapped, her voice rising with every syllable, each one striking like a match.

At that moment, Jessica began to doubt her grandmother’s sincerity. Was she truly her own grandmother or Davis grandmother? Looking at how quickly she switches sides.

But then... guilt washed over her. She had asked Davis to wait. And yes, she had stayed longer than planned. She hadn’t even stepped outside to check on him.

Taking a long breath, she looked her grandmother square in the eye. "Grandma, can you let me go now?" Her voice was measured but taut with strain. "The more time you spend complaining about how long he’s been waiting, the longer he’s still going to be out there."

was wronged," she murmured after a pause. "Bring him in for dinner. Though I doubt

the plan. She had only come to visit... When did it evolve into introducing Davis as

a smirk tugged at her lips.

Matilda paused, lips tightening as she gave it a second thought. After a

gift for my son-in-law. Deliver it to the car. Apologize for my

stepped out of the Santiago mansion, it was close to midnight.

air kissed her skin, and as the lights from the house dimmed

the familiar black car, heart

to tap the glass, but before

sends her sincerest

blankly. Then his eyes drifted to Jessica,

butler stood still like a child awaiting rebuke. Davis didn’t know

Davis picked up a small box from beside him in the car and handed it to the butler. "Please give this to the Lady Matilda. I only came to pick up my wife. I’ll visit properly another

surprised but respectful, accepted the gift. "Very

the gift she received in the car’s trunk. "Thank you," she said softly to the butler before slipping in

from the Santiago residence. Jessica glanced out the window,

slow, long

"So, what’s up?" he murmured, comforted to finally hold her close after the long,

idea of sleeping in his car. Yet her single message earlier—asking him to

"It went fine... but I made a fresh set of

– Country Y

787 airplane landed smoothly on the runway at Country ’s International Airport. The airport was quiet and calm, with only a few lights

slowly opened and amongst other passengers a young handsome man stepped down—elegant,

followed Maxwell, his longtime assistant

through immigration and security quickly. Their papers were

a black luxury sedan awaited their arrival with an assistant waiting behind the