Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

53 Passed Judgement on Mulan.

“Reason,” Maverick interrupted Mulan.

That was the second time he asked her for the reason Mulan raised her hand to slap his wife and he still hasn’t gotten an answer.

Mulan swallowed. She knew him too well to grasp the meaning behind his question.

“I- I’m sorry,” Mulan stuttered.

What reason could she have other than anger and jealousy? She couldn’t tell Maverick it was because she was angry or jealous, right?

Maverick didn’t say anything else but only turned his head to his men who were trailing behind him.

Number 2 immediately stepped out from the line of guards behind Maverick and started to walk towards Mulan.

Mulan suddenly had a weird feeling crawling towards her heart. Maverick hasn’t said anything other than those two words, but she could already feel the heat on her back.

“The ties between the Lu family and the Wang family are severed, hence, you are not allowed to get close to my son. Disobeying the order will cost you more than you can imagine.” 2

With that said, Maverick glanced at Jeslyn who had a beam on her face, and walked away, towards his

car.

Jeslyn’s lips twitched. She wasn’t expecting to hear that, but all in all, her heart felt warm.

Mulan’s heart dropped. Did he just break all ties with her and her family? Did Maverick just do that to someone like her?!

in a million years would she have thought that Maverick, whom she’s helping to take care

be this humiliated in front of so many guards and maids, especially

learning how to care for kids, the humiliation she got from

this

her hand in a tight

sense back to reality and her eyes slowly turned watery.

her, Mulan shook her head fiercely and asked in disbelief,

what are

and grabbed hold of her forearm and started

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distance away.

are you doing?! Maverick, what are you doing?! Let me go!” She struggled against him but

do this to me, please don’t separate me from Valen, please, I’m sorry, Maverick!!” Mulan screamed hysterically while being dragged away.

miserable Mulan looked, Jeslyn chuckled. Her reaction made Mulan remember she was still

everywhere. “Jeslyn, you’ll pay for this, I’ll make sure you beg for

But make sure to wear something decent while at it. I might just choose to pull your clothes while we are fighting

nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating

was. Seeing him sitting and looking in her

and didn’t move. He watched as she was dragged and pushed into her red car. Number 2 got into the driver’s seat and zoomed out of

I’ll take proper

into his black car, paused in his steps and turned his head

a long while before he turned and

shifted his gaze to rest on Jeslyn. He narrowed his

hand happened to spot Valen looking towards her and she curled her lips into a wicked

to walk in the pool’s direction.