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-”

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was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call

tongue while repeating it, checking

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

she saw him looking at

me, deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing,

face turned fierce at

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

a place in the book

pursed his lips when he saw her

persona!” He thought.

enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real

the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M, it

and clicked the pen, ready

should know that once

she dragged the contract to her side and signed it before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely going to regret not

protest about, like the- no intimacy rule, hidden marriage from the

sign everything. Mr. Maverick, why are there so many pages? There are literally more than 50 pages. Why is it

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matter anymore, you already signed it.”

can trash it. Another can be sent,

thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless or