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

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

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

the house…

room for a brief moment

later with a bowl and a white

stir in her sleep for

the towel in the bowl of water, squeezed the water out, and cleaned her face with

a few times before folding the towel and placing it

and glanced at his inconspicuous black watch before he stood up and returned the bowl to the bathroom.

one more time before he looked away with no

placed on the bed and the other left

unreadable, he stepped into

sound of

phone and the murderous look in his eyes dissipated a little. When he closed and

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

the other party was saying without uttering a word before he took

She bowed to the man sitting on the

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

to open it while saying: “I thought you

closed his eyes with his head resting on the board again.

answer that. Rex left a message in the group saying someone got married. With