Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

52 Maverick to the rescue.

“You might be his ‘wife’, but nobody knows that. If I were you, I’d hide my face in shame and stop calling him my husband.” Mulan scoffed. (1

“Hmmm… that’s right…” The maid walked back with the scarf. Jeslyn took the scarf from the maid and started to tie it around her waist while saying, “…The world might not know me to be his wife but the important people in his life do. Even a nanny like you does, so that’s already a good announcement. 1 Maverick and I don’t need the world to get married or approve our union.” Jeslyn beamed.

“y-”

“Don’t bother with your incessant talks. If you aren’t tired, I am… by the way, isn’t it too early to come to a house with a newly wedded couple? You should leave. My husband, son, brother-in-law, and I want to have the day all to ourselves and bond over breakfast.

Also…” Jeslyn smiled shyly. “He was…” She lowered her voice and leaned towards Mulan. “godly in bed. Very hot and he made me scream his name all through.” 3

Mulan’s face paled and her eyes shut open in disbelief.

“H-he, he, he, y- you…” Mulan stammered on without knowing the proper words to say.

“Hmm…” Jeslyn nodded fervently. “Yes, he ate me and he also confessed I was the most delicious thing he has ever tasted. Hahaha…”

Seeing how flabbergasted Mulan was, Jeslyn felt an overflow of joy coursing through her veins. 1 “Leave now and when next you are coming, wear something that covers that big chest of yours because I might mistake you for a seductress and you wouldn’t want to see the crazy side of an angry WIFE.” 1

Jeslyn kept laying emphasis on that word. She was never a petty person, but the urge to ruin Mulan kept tugging on her mind. She hated this woman. The more she spoke with Mulan, the more she wants to tear her apart and that feeling surprises her too.

anymore. She raised her hand and was about to land

Her hand was suspended in mid-air as color drained her already

“You dare not,”

raise his voice, or sound anxious. It was a

the voice and slowly turned

striding towards them in an uncaring manner with his face as cold as ice.

imagining if a smile had ever graced it

glanced passively at the two women. One was almost naked with a

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waist and a dark green colored bra, while the other was wearing red pants and a black

eyes didn’t linger for another second on the women. With one hand in his pocket, he stood beside Jeslyn with a brow raised.

like he

him

shifted her gaze to look into his eyes for the first time in six years. She had always had her head slightly bowed all those years, and now, she

and stared into those dark eyes that held

like they could pierce into her soul,

feared in country M, yet she still wanted to be by his side… To be the mother of his heir… To

position, only for him to give it to a

with difficulty as a teardrop slid down

“Maverick, why?”

iris with no single emotion in his eyes. If anything could be found, it was… void.

when he was born to this age… for six