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.

the bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the

repeating it, checking how

that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her

when she saw him looking at her.

you won’t sell me, deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my

turned fierce at the mention of revenge.

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

in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever

lips when he saw her brief transformation.

her persona!” He thought.

for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever It

while of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the

thought and clicked the pen, ready to

know that once you sign

when she dragged the contract to her side and signed it before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely going to regret not reading

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,

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 in perplexity while looking at his gorgeous

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you

trash it. Another can be sent, right?” She

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