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.

girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and

draws the name on her tongue while repeating it,

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

cleared her throat awkwardly when she saw

sleep, stop me from- fulfilling

face turned fierce at the mention

skin them alive, she’ll leave the face of

will get a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever

a brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips when

persona!” He

for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing the real

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

him after her thought and clicked

once you

her side and signed it before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was

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

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

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anymore, you already

wait, I can trash it. Another can

while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless or just