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.

was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under

draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also

a while, 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

she saw him looking

food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing, I believe you will

face turned fierce at

the face of the earth in the most hateful and dishonored

the world and also will get a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever

brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips

faking her persona!” He thought.

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

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

her thought and clicked the pen, ready to sign.

should know that once

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

that 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 excesses, and other bizarre

everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it so

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you

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his wife speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are