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?!

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

front of so many guards

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 the embarrassment she got from his mother. This is how he paid her

her sacrifices, this is

hand in a tight fist until her manicured nails dug into

sense back to reality and her eyes slowly turned watery.

shook her head fiercely

wh- what

of her forearm and started to

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

please don’t separate me from Valen, please,

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

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 beg for death but will never see it.

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

laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating

look towards where Valen was. Seeing him sitting and looking in

as she was dragged and pushed into her red car. Number 2 got into the driver’s seat and zoomed out of the

a broad smile while yelling, “byeeeeeee… I’ll take proper care

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

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

pool, shifted his gaze to rest on Jeslyn. He

hand happened to spot Valen looking towards her and she curled

snorted and started to walk in the pool’s direction.