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.

times they slept together.

planted in her womb, and a new life took

the last time,” explained

retrieve a box of

reached Kathleen’s lips when Samuel grabbed her hand, disrupting her. “Fine, I trust you. You haven’t been feeling well lately. Taking these pills might only cause more

the future men I meet won’t let me suffer through this, unlike you!

Samuel was incensed.

it is true that Kathleen often has to be on Plan

to be as fecund

to truly love me, he

on. No man would commit such

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

are a mere figment of your wishful imagination,”

me anyway? Kathleen is given ample money to spend. Besides, her needs and

can’t believe my poor luck

fated then,” replied Samuel

if! Curse my rotten luck. I must have been

to have pined after him for ten

Samuel huffed in displeasure.

that

that she had inexplicably become more prone

research, however, it could be that her mood swings were due to pregnancy

between her eyebrows, deflated. “Whatever, I’m

the bed, pull up the covers,

Samuel grimaced.

my anger then promptly snooze off like nobody’s business. She would not

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

proposed to take them

off and succumbed to

glacial gaze was pinned on the bottle

it. How am

man was defined by his actions in not allowing her to consume birth-control pills,

use a condom

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

as soft and luscious as fresh peach and slept as soundly as an endearing tabby

to exist? No wonder everyone seems drawn to

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

shrieked as she struggled to escape from

at the commotion, but Kathleen