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-”

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“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.

and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the

name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also thinking of the meaning.

she slowly nodded while thinking, ‘it makes sense that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the feeling of how humans are. It’s understandable though, this is

throat awkwardly when she saw him looking at her.

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

turned fierce at the

leave the face of the earth in

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

moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he

her persona!”

her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever It wasverick got to understand that she wasn’t

been thinking all these while of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M,

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

know that once you

before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped

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

it took me almost 5 minutes to sign everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are

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doesn’t matter anymore, you already signed it.”

trash it. Another can be sent,

before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless or