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.

cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the

her tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds, and

thinking, ‘it makes sense that he bears that name, it suits him perfectly because he doesn’t look, behave, nor give her the

when she saw him looking at her.

sleep, stop me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important

face turned fierce at the

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

name 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 she

a brief moment, Maverick pursed his lips when he saw her

her persona!”

Jeslyn 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

make her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air

her thought and clicked the pen, ready

once you sign that, you-”

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

many pages? There

1

matter anymore, you

wait, I can trash it. Another can

thinking: ‘Jeslyn, are you this careless or just acting