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 interesting.”

of any interesting events in my life. When I was five or six, my mum and I went for a vacation on an

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

no longer

mean, the ocean was driven to consume the

into

happened, everyone on the island died. Only the two of them survived and after they left the island, the story became confidential and hidden away by some weird people that

messed

there too.”

Are you serious?! This world is really a small

three children were on that island at the

“Pardon?”

stared at her but shook his head.

at Maverick but felt no maliciousness 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 there,

became friends.””

more. I wonder why I wasn’t counted among the

must have beenone of the things you forgot.”

Jeslyn sighed.

six, a good kid. She had a beautiful dream but her mother wouldn’t

does that sound like

met, she argued with her mother and ran into my space to hide. She was very cute. We became friends. We kissed. Then

on her saliva and coughed; “Ahem, Ahem… Sorry, how old were you?”

“Ten”

only

“Six”

a

kissed…we were both children,”

a difference. Mr. Maverick, you are…” She sighed. “Who

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