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a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call

repeating it, checking how 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

awkwardly when she saw him looking at

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

fierce at

face

a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever live. This she

Maverick pursed his lips when he saw her brief transformation.

persona!” He thought.

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 wasn’t

had been thinking all these while of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M, it seems that’s

and clicked

that once

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

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

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 so much?” Jeslyn tilted her head in perplexity while looking at

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anymore, you already signed it.”

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

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