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?!

in a million years would she have thought that Maverick, whom she’s helping to take care of

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

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

her sacrifices, this is Maverick’s decision?

balled her hand in a tight fist until her manicured nails

pulled her sense back to reality and

striding towards her, Mulan shook her

wh- what

her and grabbed hold of her forearm and started to

12:02 O

000

1/3

a distance away.

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,

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

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

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

a nice laugh while Mulan was hyperventilating

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

dragged and pushed into her red car.

yelling, “byeeeeeee… I’ll take proper care of Valen

his black car, paused in his steps and

a long while before he turned

shifted his gaze to rest on Jeslyn. He narrowed

happened to spot Valen looking towards her and

walk