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.

was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call me Maverick, that’s

Maverick…” She draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also thinking of

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

when she saw

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

turned fierce at the mention

leave the face of the earth in the most hateful and dishonored

also will get a place in the book of world records as

moment, Maverick pursed his lips when

her persona!” He

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 got to understand that she

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

her thought and clicked the pen,

know that once you sign

finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely

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-

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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you already signed

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

while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless