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.

front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the

Maverick…” She draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds,

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

throat awkwardly when she saw

of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing, I believe you will not

at the mention of

face of the earth in the most hateful and dishonored

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

brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he

her persona!” He thought.

hatred for her enemies or if she

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

beamed at him after her thought and

know that once

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

he 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 his

many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it so much?” Jeslyn

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matter anymore, you

trash it. Another can be sent, right?”

speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn,