Chapter 4 Cheating With Her Future Brother-In-Law
When Eliza first heard about the condition, Eliza was confused. Why did it seemed like Michael meant no harm toward her? However, wasn't staying bound in a fake marriage for life the same as giving up on all her freedom and happiness?
Eliza did not want to agree to it, but Michael seemed to have seen through her thoughts, and his voice turned cruel and cold. "If you don't agree to these terms, then the only choice is to publicly get a divorce."
What he meant by 'publicly' was to expose her affair from the night before.
Neither of these was an option she could swallow.
"I will give you one day to think about it. I will come back to you tomorrow morning." After Michael said that, he left the room. Eliza sat on the bed in a daze for the whole morning. Apart from bewilderment and despair, she felt confused and lost.
Her mother called her, but she dared not answer.
All she did was sit on her bed in a daze, from morning to night.
At night, her best friend, Gracelynn, called her. Eliza did not want to answer it at first, but Gracelynn made three continuous phone calls. She frowned at her persistence. In the end, she answered the call.
"Hello, is this Gracelynn's friend? We are calling from Grand Sierra Hotel. Your friend is drunk. Please come over and pick her up."
Eliza could only grit her teeth and get up from bed. She dragged her somewhat weak body, changed her clothes, and headed to the hotel. Gracelynn was very drunk. Her body was sprawled in a booth while she was singing crazily at the top of her lungs, sobbing as she did so.
Eliza reached out and helped Gracelynn wipe the tears from her eyes. She asked her softly, "Gracie, what happened?"
Gracelynn widened her eyes and looked at Eliza. She could not stop her tears from falling. "Eliza, all men are pigs! Cheating as soon as they get married! All of them deserve to die!"
Eliza's heart ached. This was not the first time that Gracelynn's husband had cheated on her. They caught him cheating before too.
So what if they caught him red-handed? He did not love her. So what if she screamed and cried her lungs out? What was the use?
Eliza held her best friend in her arms and comforted her for a while. After that, she asked a waiter hovering nearby to help book a room in the hotel. Then, they helped Gracelynn get up. After Gracelynn was settled down, she grabbed her handbag and left the hotel suite to buy some food.
She did not expect to see two people holding each other the moment she turned around.
They were two tall and slender men. One pressed the other against a door, as they passionately kissed each other intimately.
Homosexuality was not a strange thing at all. However, one of them was Eliza's newlywed husband who had just proposed to her a prison of marriage, Michael!
All at once, Eliza understood how he could still bargain with her so calmly even after finding out that she had cheated on him.
So, it turned out that he was gay. He needed a woman to cover up his identity as a gay man!
Eliza felt a little cold. She stared at the two men as the door opened and they disappeared into the room. She subconsciously moved her feet, following them silently.
They were in such a hurry to get intimate with each other that they did not even properly shut the door.
Eliza pressed her ear against the wall. She could hear their voices clearly.
"Don't worry. How could I touch that woman... I deliberately arranged for a man to sleep with her to make it look like she cheated on me. That way, I can have the upper hand in this so-called marriage. Now, she is just a puppet for the Francis family. She will have to listen to me. Otherwise, I will expose her for having an affair and ruin her reputation!"-----------