Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

77 Consummate or not to consummate?

Inside Maverick’s room…

Just like always, the room didn’t change, except for the lamp beside the bed, illuminating a small part of the room in a dim glow. (3)

Although dim, it was bright enough to see the activities going on around the perimeter of the bed.

Maverick, who was lying on the edge of the bed and reading a book with the help of the light coming from the lamp, heard the sound of the doorbell. He glanced at the alarm clock on top of the drawer, it was brought in by Rex a few days before he left for his mission. 1

Maverick picked up a remote lying close to the lamp and pressed a button with his hand stretched towards the door while his eyes were on the book he was reading.

Once the door was opened, Jeslyn walked in.

“You are ten minutes late,” he said nonchalantly. His voice still left an impact, but it wasn’t impactful enough to scare her.

Jeslyn answered while walking towards him, “I couldn’t leave Valen alone.”

Maverick stayed silent for a while before he asked: “Have you experienced it before or you are new to

It?” 2

Jeslyn stared stupidly at the man reading and couldn’t fathom if he was talking to her or reading aloud.

“Hmm? Jeslyn?” Maverick lowered the book to look at the delicate beauty standing by the foot of the bed wearing peach pajamas with white cat imprints on them.

button-down pajamas were a set of pants and a short-sleeved shirt with a

you talking to me?” Jeslyn asked, a little

placed the book face-down on the top of the drawer and got down from the bed.

her eyes at his body. They said celebrities have good

before, right now she has completely believed that the man she married wasn’t human. He

reeked of evil, but this man walking towards her right now was another specie. The aura of a domineering man was still there but

the other doing nothing, he stood in front of Jeslyn. His broad back covered the lamp from Jeslyn’s view. Jeslyn was sure that if she accidentally hit her forehead on

suddenly had the urge to trace his smooth

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the room suddenly turned upside down and before

to find a comfortable spot in his arms to live her fantasy, she felt her body move in the air and she instinctively let out a piercing scream before her body hit the soft bed

Jeslyn immediately pulled herself up and shifted towards the headboard. She didn’t understand why

wait, she

the bed and the space beside her deepened a little due to his weight. He roughly pulled her milky-skinned leg and she found herself lying on her back, close to him. She didn’t try to struggle or

anticipation as he slowly got on top of her and leaned

expecting her to be shy but from this morning when they kissed, until now that he was looking into her eyes, she didn’t

hyped from seeing his body earlier, plus the roughness he applied from the start, coupled with his honey voice, she was sure to be dripping down

moment was just too

Jeslyn didn’t know how she answered: “Yes.”

from what she remembered. She was totally lost in

ready for this?” He took her words with a

this

wasn’t sure, so he warned, just like he did before she blindly

your butts, make you beg me to stop, you’ll scream my name, and your nails will dig into my skin. Jeslyn, your toes will curl from too much excitement… you won’t be able to get out of bed for some time,” he paused while staring into her hazy