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.

bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained:

draws the name on her tongue while repeating it, checking

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

her throat awkwardly when she saw him

deprive me of food and sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and

turned fierce at the mention of

if she doesn’t skin them alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth in the most hateful and

will be painted around the world and also will get a place in the book of world records as the most disgusting human to ever live. This

his lips when he saw

faking her persona!”

hatred for her enemies or if she was subconsciously showing

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

after her thought and clicked the pen,

should know that once you sign

it before he got to finish his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely going to regret not reading

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

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

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you

I can trash it. Another can be

before thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you