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?!

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

of so many guards and maids, especially this vixen she hated

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 the embarrassment she got from his mother. This

all her sacrifices, this is Maverick’s decision?

her hand in a tight fist until her

pain pulled her sense back to reality and her eyes slowly turned

number 2 striding towards her, Mulan shook her head fiercely

wh- what are you saying?”

and grabbed hold of her forearm and started to

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

Maverick, you cannot do this to me, please don’t separate me from

Mulan looked, Jeslyn chuckled. Her reaction made Mulan

kill, Jeslyn would have fallen dead with her intestines spewed everywhere. “Jeslyn, you’ll

decent while at it. I might just choose to pull your

nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating in fury.

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

into her red car. Number 2 got into the driver’s seat and

I’ll take proper care of Valen

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

her side profile for a long while

to rest

spot Valen looking towards her and she curled her lips into

and started to walk in the pool’s