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.

a withdrawn cat shivering under

repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also

suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the feeling of how humans are. It’s

she saw

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

fierce at the

alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth in the most hateful and dishonored way.

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

brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he saw her brief

her persona!”

side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever It wasverick got to understand that she

adjust to the lifestyle and

him after her thought and clicked the pen, ready to sign.

know that once you

she dragged the contract to her side and signed it before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his

were some conditions in there 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

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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you already signed

Another can be sent,

speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless