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?!

Maverick, whom she’s helping to take care of his son

believe that she would be this humiliated in front of so many guards and maids, especially

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

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

balled her hand in a tight

sense back to reality and her eyes slowly turned watery.

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

what are you saying?”

hold of her forearm and started to drag her towards her

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

Maverick, you cannot do this to me, please don’t separate me from Valen, please, I’m sorry, Maverick!!” Mulan screamed hysterically while being dragged away.

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

dead with her intestines spewed everywhere. “Jeslyn, you’ll pay for this, I’ll make sure you

But make sure to wear something decent while at it. I might just choose

was having a nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating

where Valen was. Seeing him sitting and looking in

and pushed into her

take proper care of

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

side profile for a long while before he turned and

shifted his gaze to rest on Jeslyn. He narrowed

on the other hand happened to spot Valen looking towards her and she curled her lips into a wicked

walk