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.

in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the

while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also

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 understandable though, this is

her throat awkwardly when she

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

turned fierce at the

skin them alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth in the most hateful and

name will be painted around the world and also will get a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever live.

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

her persona!” He

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

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

her thought and clicked

should know that once

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

from the public, treating Valen like she

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

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matter anymore, you already signed

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

speechlessly for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are