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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that, Maverick brought out a key card and slid it through the reader, and waited for it to beep green before he turned the knob and opened the door. “You may leave.” He said to the maid who still had her head down before going into the room and shutting the door.

saw the girl curled up in her sleep with messy hair and a red

forehead. Maverick knitted his brows after feeling her

to the house… now.”

the room for a brief moment before he headed to the

came out a few seconds later with a bowl and a white towel. He sat down beside Jeslyn and turned her from the

Jeslyn didn’t stir in

of water, squeezed the water out,

few times before folding the towel and placing it on her

black watch before he stood up and returned the bowl

back to sit beside the sleeping woman and glanced at her face one more time before he looked away with no changes to his

long leg placed on the bed and the

expression unreadable, he stepped

beeping sound of his phone ringing made him

and the murderous look in his eyes dissipated a little. When he closed and opened his eyes again, only the redness could be seen and his face had returned to its

stretched his hand to the top of the drawer to take his phone while looking at

party was saying without uttering a word before he took the phone off his ears and placed it back on the top of the drawer.

to the man sitting on the bed before stepping aside for the doctor

was no older than Maverick, with his hair dyed white, walked into the room, holding

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

and closed his eyes with his head resting on the board

that. Rex left a message in the group saying someone