Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

32 Ignoring the terms and conditions

Jeslyn had thought she was thinking that in her mind until she heard a snicker.

She paused her fingers on the document and raised her head slowly to look at the man in front of her. She blinked and blinked again.

“Huh? I thought I heard him sniffle a laugh. Why is his face still looking like a robot’s? Perhaps I was thinking too much.’ She shrugged her shoulders and continued to flip the pages without reading anything.

Jeslyn sighed again. All her contracts were handled by Maya and Christine. She dislikes reading these ‘tiny’ words filled with clauses, party A, party B, rights, and so on.

Don’t these lawyers get tired? She sighed again. She picked up the pen on the table and just when she was about to put down her signature, Maverick pulled the contract off the table.

“Jeslyn Lee, you haven’t read the terms and conditions, you don’t know what your duties are, you haven’t read what you should expect of me, how you should treat my son, what to expect of him-”

“Mr. Somebody I don’t know his name, I hate reading-” 1

“Maverick,” he interrupted her with narrowed eyes.

“Eh?” She looked at him in a stupor. Those narrowed eyes sent goosebumps crawling under her skin. She swallowed as her heartbeat took another beating tune.

bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call me Maverick, that’s my name.”

Mr. Maverick…” She draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds,

name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the feeling of how humans

her throat awkwardly when she saw him looking at

from- fulfilling my dreams, and the

at the

people, if she doesn’t skin them alive, she’ll leave the face

a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever live. This

lips when he saw her brief

her persona!” He thought.

and evil side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever It wasverick got to understand that she wasn’t a

the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M, it

beamed at him after her thought and

know that once you

before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his

that he expected her to protest about, like the- no intimacy rule, hidden marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would treat her son- meaning, condoning his excesses, and other bizarre

almost 5 minutes to sign everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it

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matter anymore, you

can trash it. Another can

looked at his wife speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless