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.

how the bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him

She draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also 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 understandable though, this is country

she saw

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

face turned fierce at the mention

face of the earth in the most hateful and

the book of world records as the most

brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he saw

persona!” He thought.

fierce and evil side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever

to the lifestyle and the

her thought and clicked the pen, ready

know that once you

signed it before he got to finish his words.

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

Even though I 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

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anymore, you

wait, I can trash it. Another can

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