Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

31 Wrong door- contract signing

Realizing she had lost track, she gently hit her head before she beamed again. “Mr, can I return to my country?”

Seeing his face changing, she immediately let go of his hand and waved at his face in a hurry. “No, no, I’m not saying I want to divorce. I mean, uhm, this country is not for people like me. I want to return to my country but I can still remain your wife and when it’s time to divorce, you can send the divorce. papers over and I’ll-”

“No.” His cold and stern voice sounded.

“Huh?” His reply startled her. What did he mean by no?

“Mr, there’s no reason for me to be by your side, right? I have a career that I-”

“Miss, you have issues up there?” He pointed at her head. 2

Jeslyn shook her head out of reflex.

“Then, you mustn’t have forgotten my condition for accepting the deal, right?”

“Eh, you said it’s for a brat and-”

“That brat cannot travel out of this country, which means you’ll have to stay here.”

“But my career! I’m a singer, a well-known singer who will soon be climbing to be a C-lister in a few weeks!” She knew she was lying, however, staying anywhere in the world is better than staying in this country.

Maverick stayed silent for a while before he responded. “Being here doesn’t stop you from doing anything. There are great companies here, I’ll get Rex to find you one.”

“No, Mr. I don’t use the back door to attain my dreams.”

“Neither am I giving you access through the back door.”

“What do you mean?”

you make him

What did he

“It seems my life is just getting worse by the day. No problem, I’ll endure, so far I won’t die before I

before she turned around and headed to the

away and couldn’t help but beam. She loves

the passageway, she stopped and brushed her

unbelievable, haha…” she

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was coming from but no one was behind her, so she sighed and shook

her head.

get lost, can we?… Jeslyn, you can do this!” She

plus the designs of the

Where is the room I came out from? God! Why is a house this big and complicated anyway?…. Forget it, I can just

standing on has three rooms with the doors looking the same. She got baffled as to which room she should go

and walked to the first

first floor, it didn’t bulge…

not the room,” she shook her head and went to

the knob handle and… voila, it

smiled and pushed the door open.

was in front of her. T-this isn’t the room, she thought and was about

“Enter”

The fright she got made her open the door wide with her hand holding tightly to the door knob while her

reaction for a while before

In the future? You almost scared me to death.”

look back as he threw her

As she was about

not on this floor.”

“Ah?”

“Last floor.”

let me