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

Were you talking to me?” Jeslyn asked, a little doubtful.

drawer and got down from the bed. His waist upward was bare.

body. They said celebrities have good bodies, yes, but her husband’s body was over the

that the man she married wasn’t human. He was

of evil, but this man walking towards her right now was another specie. The aura of a domineering man was still there but he wasn’t smelling of

pocket and 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 his toned and

to trace his smooth

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she felt his touch on her waist and her legs before the room suddenly turned upside down and before she knew it, he was striding towards

she thought 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

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

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

got on top of her and leaned towards

expecting her to be shy but from this morning when they

the movement of her butter bean. She was already hyped from seeing his

moment was just too sexy to ignore.

Jeslyn didn’t know how she answered:

what she remembered. She was

her words with a pinch of salt. He’d find

this

like he did before she

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 pupil that was glued to his brown