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a withdrawn cat

on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also thinking of the

while thinking, ‘it makes sense that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the

her throat awkwardly when she

you won’t sell me, deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling

face turned fierce at the mention

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

get a place in the book of world records

his lips

persona!” He

wasn’t known if Jeslyn showed that fierce and evil side of hers out of hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever It wasverick

been thinking all these while of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country

beamed at him after her thought and clicked the pen, ready

know that once you sign that, you-”

her side and signed it before he got to finish his words. He

marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would treat her son- meaning, condoning his excesses,

didn’t read it, it took me almost 5 minutes to sign everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are

1

you already signed

can trash it. Another can

his wife speechlessly for a while before thinking: