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?!

million years would she have thought that Maverick, whom she’s helping to take care of his son for six years, would pass such judgment

this humiliated in front of so many guards and maids, especially this vixen she hated so much.

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,

her sacrifices, this is Maverick’s decision?

she was dreaming, so she balled her hand in a tight fist

sense back to reality and her eyes slowly turned

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

wh- what

2 walked to her and grabbed hold of her forearm

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

do this to me, please don’t separate me from Valen, please, I’m

how miserable Mulan looked, Jeslyn chuckled. Her reaction made Mulan remember

could kill, Jeslyn would have fallen dead with her intestines spewed everywhere. “Jeslyn, you’ll pay for this, I’ll make sure you beg for death but will never see it. I’ll ruin you

while at it. I might just choose

while Mulan was

Valen was. Seeing him sitting and looking in her

He watched as she was dragged and pushed into her red car. Number 2 got into the driver’s

at the car with a broad smile while yelling, “byeeeeeee… I’ll take proper care of

in his steps and turned his head

profile for a long while before he turned

shifted his gaze to rest on

towards her and she curled her lips into a wicked smile. (2

and started to walk in the pool’s