Chapter 36 The Marriage Contract

• The copy of the contract that her mother had sent over to her after the marriage, along with some important documents that her mother had taken from Carol's former house, was kept in a big envelope in a drawer of a table in Carol's room. After taking her bath, wearing her nightie, and doing a few other things, she brought out the envelope, sat on the bed, and removed the contract from it. All this while, she had put off reading it because she was not sure that she wanted to know what was inside it, but now, she needed to know.
• At first glance, the contract was just a bunch of legal jargon which Carol did not understand, neither was she willing to go through the trouble of deciphering what it meant. She was wondering whether to call her mother to explain it to her, when she happened to come across the part of it that stated what was expected of her.
• According to the contract, she was to marry Sebastian. Carol smirked at this. That much she had already done. Also, she was to keep him company and make sure that she acted as the loving wife during the one year and six months that they were to be married. Carol was not sure how she was supposed to go about that one, considering that the man in question wanted nothing to do with her most of the time and he also seemed to find her extremely annoying.