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.

front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering

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

a while, she slowly nodded while thinking, ‘it makes sense that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because

she saw him looking

and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and

fierce at the mention of

them alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth

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

his lips when he saw her brief

faking her persona!”

that fierce and evil side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the

the lifestyle and the gloomy air of

at him after her thought and clicked the pen, ready to

should know that once

and signed it before he got to finish his

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

me almost 5 minutes to sign everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it so much?” Jeslyn tilted her head

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doesn’t matter anymore, you already

Another can be sent, right?” She

speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are