Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 114

114 His Rossa

A few hours had passed and Jeslyn was feeling a little better, still, they were on the road. Jeslyn looked out the window and was surprised to see that they weren’t anywhere close to the house “Maverick, we haven’t gotten anywhere yet.” She said while looking out the window.

“You needed to calm down before going home.”

“Which means, you’ve been driving around the City?!”

He didn’t respond but Jeslyn knew she was right. Jeslyn smiled and whispered, “thank you…it’s already midnight. We should return home.”

yet.

“Hmm,” Maverick turned the car and started heading in the direction of Jeslyn’s glass house, a few kilometers outside the City.

“What plan have you come up with?” Maverick asked out of the blue.

“On…?”

“Your career.”

“Oh, I intend to start afresh. I’ll sign up with a voice coach for a year or two before I return to the music industry. Like you said, there are better companies in Country M. I’ll start from there.” Maverick hmmed. “Do you have anyone in mind?”

“Not really. I’ll just find a good coach online. Meanwhile, I also intend to start writing for fun.” She smiled.

“Nice.”

“Jeslyn, tell me about yourself.”

Jeslyn sighed and rested her head on the headrest. “What’s there to tell you? You must have dug into my background already.”

found nothing

memory of any interesting events in my life. When I was five or six, my mum and I went for a vacation on an island. We spent quite a long time there. I

mother said a wealthy man gifted the island to his unborn son, hoping the Child would draw peace from it. Then the son was born but instead of peace, he brought chaos to the island… what a curse.”

You disdain him?”

the existence of that child ruined

the island no

the ocean… I mean, the ocean was driven

sank into

you know that?” Jeslyn frowned. Her mother said that immediately it happened, everyone on the island died. Only the two of them survived and after they left the island, the

be messed with.

there too.”

Are you serious?! This world is

children were on that island at the time, Rossa.”

“Pardon?”

stared at her but shook his head. “What else happened?”

from his question, so she shook her head too. “I can’t remember anything else. I was too little and unintelligent then. You said you were

became friends.””

Tell me more. I wonder why I wasn’t counted among the children. Was my registration removed?

must have beenone of the

true.” Jeslyn

good kid. She had a beautiful dream but her mother

that sound like me?” She laughed.

her mother and ran into my space to hide. She was very cute. We became friends. We kissed. Then one day, she disappeared before the tragedy

and coughed; “Ahem, Ahem…

“Ten”

only seven!”

“Six”

a child!”

were both

Mr. Maverick, you are…” She sighed.

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