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bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call me

repeating it, checking how

he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because

her throat awkwardly when she saw him looking

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

turned fierce at the

doesn’t skin them alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth in the most hateful and dishonored way.

a place in the book of world records as

moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he saw

persona!”

hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she

how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M,

and clicked the pen,

should know that once you sign that, you-”

got to finish his words. He slowly shook

he expected her to protest about, like the- no intimacy rule, hidden marriage from the public, treating

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

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doesn’t matter anymore, you

wait, I can trash it. Another can be sent, right?”

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