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.

in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat

the name on her tongue while repeating it,

perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the feeling of how humans are. It’s understandable though, this

her throat awkwardly when she saw him looking

sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing, I

face turned fierce at

them alive, she’ll leave the face of

and also will get a place in the book of world records as

moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he saw her brief transformation.

persona!”

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

of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle

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

know that once

before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely going to

rule, hidden marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would treat her son- meaning, condoning his excesses, and other bizarre

many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it so much?” Jeslyn tilted her head in perplexity while looking

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matter anymore, you already signed

it. Another

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