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.

to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call

She draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and also

while, she slowly nodded while thinking, ‘it makes sense that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look,

cleared her throat awkwardly when she saw

Mr. Maverick, I suppose that you won’t sell me, deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing, I believe you will not prevent me from seeking

face turned fierce at the

the face of the earth in the most

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

lips when he saw her brief

her persona!”

enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the

of how he would make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M, it seems that’s not

after her thought and clicked the pen, ready to

that once you

his words.

there that he expected her to protest about, like the- no intimacy rule, hidden marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would

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 his gorgeous face.

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you already signed it.”

can trash it. Another

for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this