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.

the bunny in front of him was changing from a happy and cute girl to a withdrawn cat shivering under the rain, he suppressed the air around him and explained: “Call me Maverick,

tongue while repeating it, checking how it sounds,

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

awkwardly when she saw him looking at

me from- fulfilling my dreams, and the most important thing,

at

them alive, she’ll leave the face of the earth in

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

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

her persona!”

or if she was subconsciously showing the real her, but whatever

her adjust to the lifestyle and the gloomy air of country M,

at him after her thought and clicked the pen, ready

that once you

his words. He slowly shook his head and stopped talking. She was definitely

rule, hidden marriage from the public, treating Valen like she would treat her son- meaning, condoning

so many pages? There are literally

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doesn’t matter anymore, you already signed

I can trash it. Another can be sent, right?” She blinked.

for a while before thinking: ‘Jeslyn,