Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

36 Caring for his sick wife

From morning till afternoon Jeslyn didn’t go downstairs to eat nor did she open her door to the maids that had been knocking.

Now it’s evening and she’s still inside and a maid is standing outside her door, banging and ringing the doorbell with urgency.

How many hours has it been that the guest she was warned to care for by the butler hasn’t eaten? She loves her job and doesn’t want to be fired.

Being under master Maverick means an automatic protective shield in this hell of a country, so the young maid was frightened by the thousands of bad thoughts running through her mind.

“Ring, ring, ring!”

“Knock, knock, knock!”

“Bang, bang, bang!”

“Ma’am, please open the door!”

There’s a spare key with the butler however the man couldn’t be found in the large mansion. “Step back.”

The maid turned with a start at the cold voice. She hurriedly stepped out of the way and bowed her head to avoid looking at those cold eyes owned by the demonic man she was working for. When will this master learn to make a sound while walking? Every time, he walks around like he wasn’t stepping on the ground.

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key card and slid it through the reader, and waited for it to beep green before he turned the knob and opened the

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his height and stretched his hand to touch her forehead. Maverick knitted his brows after feeling her burning forehead and stood upright.

to the

for a brief moment before he

with an incredible figure came out a few seconds later with a bowl and a white towel. He sat down beside Jeslyn and turned her from the fetal position to face up.

didn’t stir in her

the bowl of water, squeezed the water

the process a few times before

raised his hand and glanced at his inconspicuous black watch before he stood up and returned the bowl to

back to sit beside the sleeping woman and glanced at her face one

on the headboard with one long leg placed on the bed and the

stepped into the

passed and the beeping sound of his phone ringing made him

phone and the murderous look in his eyes dissipated a little. When he closed and opened his eyes again, only the redness could be

hand to the top of the drawer to take his phone while looking at Jeslyn who didn’t stir

he took the phone off his

man sitting on the

older than Maverick, with his hair dyed white, walked into the room, holding a black suitcase. 7

on the bed and started to open it while saying: “I thought

his eyes with

you wouldn’t answer that. Rex left a message in the group saying someone got married. With this lady here, I think