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?!

helping to take care of his

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

couldn’t believe that the man she had known and wanted for so many years would do this to her. The time she wasted, the care she gave that rotten child, the suffering she went through learning how to care for kids, the humiliation she got from his sister whom he refused to announce to the world, and

all her sacrifices, this is Maverick’s decision? (2

balled her hand in a tight fist

back to reality and

shook her

Maverick, wh- what are you

of her forearm and started

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

separate me from

Her reaction made Mulan remember

turned to her with unconcealed rage in her eyes. If looks could kill, Jeslyn would have fallen dead with her intestines spewed everywhere. “Jeslyn, you’ll pay for this, I’ll make sure you

it. I might just choose to pull your clothes

having a nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating in fury.

to look towards where Valen was. Seeing him sitting and looking in her direction, she screamed, “Valen! Child, please save me!”

and didn’t move. He watched as she was dragged and pushed into her

with a broad smile while yelling, “byeeeeeee… I’ll take proper care of Valen and he won’t miss

paused in his steps and turned

her side profile for a long while before he turned and entered his

was by the pool, shifted his gaze to rest on Jeslyn. He narrowed his eyes at her.

her and she curled her lips into a wicked

to walk in