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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to beep green before he turned the knob and opened the door. “You may leave.” He said to the maid who still

saw the girl curled up in her sleep with messy hair and a red nose. Her gorgeous face looked pale with

her forehead. Maverick knitted his brows after

the house… now.”

the room for

bowl and a

Jeslyn didn’t stir in her sleep

water, squeezed the water out, and

process a few times before

before he stood up and returned the

at her face one more time before he looked

the headboard with one long leg placed on the

unreadable, he stepped into

sound of

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

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

party was saying without uttering a word before he

door dinged and a maid pushed it open. She bowed to the man sitting on the bed before stepping aside for the

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

and started to open it while saying: “I

and closed his eyes with his

a message in the group saying someone got married. With this