Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

99 Nagging Feelings- Shy away

Maverick raised his face from her neck and scrutinized her face. She looked peaceful while sleeping. She looked like she didn’t have issues disturbing her. However, he knew how much her heart was hurting, just like that little girl, Rossa, who used to tell him about her mother while crying, yet a few seconds later, she would start playing again like she wasn’t the one crying a while back. T

‘Jeslyn… What’s your real identity? Why can’t I find anything meaningful about you? Who is that person blocking my path each time I get a new lead? Your medical reports said you are missing two years of memory. What happened in those two years? What traumatized you so much? How did you also forget your childhood?”

While thinking all that, Maverick’s fingers were subconsciously outlining her face. Jeslyn stirred but her eyes were still closed. She changed the position her hand was in and placed it anywhere.

Maverick’s mind returned and he slowly trailed his eyes to where her hand was resting and flattened his lips. “If only you know what you are doing, Jeslyn.”

He took her hand off his bulge and placed it on his chest after putting his back on the bed.

Jeslyn snuggled against him, placing her head on his chest, and smiled. It wasn’t known if she did it intentionally or subconsciously.

That night, while everyone was sleeping, Ray was busy watching the CCTV footage he placed on the Lee property.

He saw the ladies in black, the two with multicolored hair and one dressed in all black with a cocktail hat. He zoomed into the video. The girl doesn’t have Jeslyn’s face, she also didn’t have Jeslyn’s happy vibe. The girl’s personality was cold and unfriendly, just like the two ladies standing beside her as she stared at the Lee mansion.

couldn’t have been Jeslyn but why did he still have the nagging

so he left the image playing on the screen while he went to another laptop to continue

The next morning.

up refreshed. Maverick was nowhere to be found. There was no new chapter to read yet, so she decided to go see Valen and probably take him out to show

child,” she opened his door, a room Pink was supposed to have been in. However, he was not in, rather,

Bang!” She immediately sh ut the door

her reaction. He stood frozen for a while before he chuckled and shook his head. If she could react this way after seeing his body, then what would she do when she sees Maverick’s? Would she have a nosebleed?

seen his body, right? Huh? Brother hasn’t given

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her yet?” Rex’s eyes

Jeslyn couldn’t get his body reacting, he wouldn’t have left hickeys on her… But there’s a difference between…

house, provided the thing didn’t happen inside the rooms of the high profiled people in

escape Rex’s detection unless he chooses

and they saw the deep red marks on her pale smooth skin. They were mature adults, so they didn’t need a detective to

again before he continued with what he was

because he was lost in thought.

and squatted in front of him. “How many children

he saw Jeslyn in front of him. His lips parted and wanted