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?!

to take care of his son

couldn’t believe that she would be this humiliated in front of so many guards

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

her sacrifices, this

so she balled her hand in a tight fist until her manicured

pain pulled her sense back to reality and

number 2 striding towards her, Mulan shook her head fiercely and

Maverick, wh- what are you saying?”

hold of her forearm and

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are you doing?! Let me

don’t separate me from Valen,

miserable Mulan looked, Jeslyn chuckled. Her reaction made Mulan

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 Jeslyn, bet me, I

decent while at it. I might just choose to pull your clothes while we are fighting in the future.

a nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating in fury. 2

was. Seeing him sitting and

pushed into her red car. Number

I’ll take proper care of Valen and he won’t miss you for

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

side profile for a long while before

to rest on Jeslyn. He

to spot Valen looking towards her and she curled her lips into a wicked smile. (2

started to walk