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.

He knew she couldn’t have been Jeslyn but why did he still have the nagging feeling

away from going crazy. He didn’t know what to do anymore, so he left the

The next morning.

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 him around Rose City and the places

room Pink was supposed to have been in.

sh ut the door and

her reaction. He stood frozen for a while before he chuckled and shook his head. If she could react this way after

his body, right? Huh? Brother

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not touched her yet?”

my brother. If Jeslyn couldn’t get his body reacting, he wouldn’t have left hickeys on her… But

thing didn’t happen inside the rooms of the high profiled people in the house, like Maverick’s room, Jeslyn’s room,

detection

he knew Jeslyn had hickeys, a few servants saw her when she left Maverick’s room, wearing his shirt and they saw the deep red marks on her pale smooth skin.

head again before he

because he was lost in thought.

squatted in front of him. “How many children have you

focused before he saw Jeslyn in front of him. His lips