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 heard… return to the house, your stepson will be back soon. How you make him trust

lips fell open in disbelief. What did he just

getting worse by the day. No problem, I’ll endure, so far I won’t die before I ruin those

murmured to herself before she turned around and headed

she caught sight of the sparkling blue-colored pool a distance away and couldn’t help but beam. She loves water and she could envision herself a few days from now diving into that pool in her

the stairs. On getting to the passageway,

is unbelievable, haha…” she laughed awkwardly.

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

her head.

do this!” She patted herself on the shoulder and continued to walk forward.

of the passageway, plus the designs of the large doors got

out from? God! Why is a house this big and complicated anyway?…. Forget it,

with the doors looking the same. She got baffled

she said and walked to the first door on her right.

first floor, it didn’t bulge… It was locked.

shook her head and went to the other door. “This should be

turned the knob handle

and pushed the door open.

her. T-this isn’t the room, she thought and was about to shut the door when she

“Enter”

she got made her open the door wide with her hand holding tightly to

her cute reaction for a while

please, make some noise while walking In

didn’t look back as

I should just head to my room.” As she was about to turn, his voice

not on

“Ah?”

“Last floor.”

let me go-”