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.

withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around

tongue while repeating

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

she saw him looking

Mr. Maverick, I suppose that you won’t sell me, deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling

fierce at

face of

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

his lips when he saw her brief transformation.

persona!”

showed that fierce and evil side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing

the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M, it seems that’s not

thought and

should know that once you sign that,

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

marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would treat her son- meaning, condoning his excesses, and other bizarre conditions. 2

didn’t read it, it took me almost 5 minutes to 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

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doesn’t matter anymore, you already

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

looked at his wife speechlessly for a while before thinking: