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

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

to touch her forehead. Maverick knitted his brows after feeling her burning forehead and stood upright. He pulled out his phone and dialed

the house…

room for a brief moment before he headed to the

later with a bowl and a white towel. He sat down beside Jeslyn and turned her from the fetal position to

in

the towel in the bowl of water, squeezed the water

the process a few times before

inconspicuous black watch before he stood up

and glanced at her face one more time

with one long leg placed on the bed and the other left on the

stepped into 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 seen and his face had returned to its normal emotionless

to the top of the drawer to take his phone

before he took the phone off his ears and placed it back on the

maid pushed it open. She bowed to the man sitting on the bed before stepping aside for the doctor

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

the bed and started to open it while saying: “I thought you called me for your son. Who

closed his eyes with his head resting on the board

wouldn’t answer that. Rex left a message in the group saying someone got married.