Perfect Marriage with My Substitute Wife

Kathleen was having a fitful sleep when she was awoken by a bitingly cold presence.

Her gaze landed on Samuel, who was standing by her bed.

She was overcome with nerves and disbelief that he had actually returned.

Samuel regarded the squeamish Kathleen in an icily condescending manner. “You’re pregnant?”

“No. Who told you that? Do you deny the lab test results?” Kathleen bit back as she worried her bottom lip.

“Then what is it that you’re looking at?” retorted Samuel as he pointed at the tablet.

Kathleen pursed her lips. “I had promised to help Gemma out tomorrow by volunteering at a charity home advocating for autistic children. Do you find fault in me doing some background research beforehand?”

That managed to convince Samuel.

“What time will you be leaving tomorrow?” asked Samuel dispassionately.

“I plan to reach by ten o’clock.”

Kathleen secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

That was a close call. Her pregnancy was almost revealed.

“Are you certain you’re not pregnant?” Samuel reiterated.

“Of course. When have I skipped my birth control pills?” deadpanned Kathleen.

“That trip to the hot springs two months prior.” Samuel could still recall it vividly.

Well, that was true indeed.

Kathleen had decided to head to the hot springs on a whim while Samuel had been there on a job inspection. Neither she nor Samuel had an inkling that either party would be present, yet both had met out of sheer coincidence.

It had only taken Samuel one look at Kathleen, enticingly flushed and bundled up in a bathrobe, for him to ravish her completely in his room.

In the heat of the moment, Samuel had forgotten to bring along his condoms.

He rarely used them, as a matter of fact, and relied on Kathleen’s regular intake of morning-after pills.

After their night together, he had urged Kathleen to take her pills on time and hastily left for work.

Kathleen was so wrung out after the night’s exertions that she failed to act on it immediately.

She had brushed off the reminder since she wasn’t ovulating and promptly forgotten all about it.

a condom the subsequent few times they slept together. Hence, she did not see the need in

been planted in her womb, and

taking my plan B pills the last time,” explained Kathleen coolly. “I’ll ingest them right now if

proceeded to retrieve a box of morning-after

her hand, disrupting her. “Fine, I trust you. You haven’t been feeling well lately. Taking these pills might only

future men I meet won’t let me suffer through this, unlike you! All you care about is your own pleasure regardless of my

Samuel was incensed.

is true that Kathleen often has

measures, would you prefer to be as fecund as a

love me,

on. No man would commit

full of yourself that your opinions are skewed. I swear I’ll prove it to

men are a mere figment of

she compare me with her imagined good man. What is so bad about me anyway? Kathleen is given ample money to spend. Besides, her needs and wants, both in bed and in day-to-day life are well taken care of. What more is there to

are a dime a dozen. I can’t believe my poor luck to have met the only bad

we’re fated then,” replied

uttered self-mockingly, “As if! Curse my rotten luck. I

must have been lust-addled to have pined after him for

Samuel huffed in displeasure.

sensed that something

inexplicably become more prone to losing her

be that

eyebrows, deflated. “Whatever, I’m going to

bed, pull up the covers, and

Samuel grimaced.

gall of her to instigate my anger then promptly snooze off like nobody’s business. She would not have dared to do so in the past. When

the heavens for her quick wit in switching the birth control pills to

wouldn’t have proposed to take them right

drifted off and

pinned on the bottle of birth-control

it. How am

man was defined by his actions in not allowing her

condom from this

showering, Samuel lay in bed and turned to his side, taking

and luscious as fresh peach and slept as soundly as an

for such an irresistibly adorable woman to exist? No wonder everyone seems drawn to her. Especially Christopher.

that did not sit well with Samuel, and he was compelled to wrap Kathleen in his embrace to

you scum!” Kathleen shrieked

frowned in dismay at the commotion,