Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

148 Valentine’s sitting room

“Blargh”

Maverick completely froze for a long time with eyes widened. He was in total disbelief and speechlessness sliced his tongue.

He regained his senses when he saw her smiling and rubbing her head on his strong arm that he placed on the bed. Maverick gritted his teeth and balled his hands. This woman! 1

He got off her and accidentally looked at himself in the mirror. The puke on his face looked so disgusting. Would she still have the face to be angry at him after doing this to him?

He stormed out of the room and went to take a long shower before returning to clean off the mess she made on the bed, including her body. “This is your last time drinking.” He said while cleaning up her body.

When he returned, he kissed her forehead and wrapped his hands around her before going to sleep… completely ignoring his little brother that was long awake.

Stupid thing. Can’t it see that the atmosphere isn’t for such things?

Morning came and Jeslyn opened her eyes to the bright sun peeping through the curtains. She tried to get up like she used to do but a severe headache attacked her. She moaned in pain and rested her head back on the pillow.

“Why does it hurt? Did I hit my head?” Her eyes paused on the curtains and she slowly turned her head to survey the room. This wasn’t her room!

She forced herself to seat up and saw a bowl of soup on the top of the drawer beside the bed. Underneath the white bowl, a white note was sticking out. She picked it up.

The first thing that caught her attention was the beautiful calligraphy. It was so beautiful that it looked like it was printed rather than written. If not for the content, she would have argued that it was printed.

hangover soup…

Only Maverick had she seen breaking words or saying words

sentences.

but only too

was about to put the small note away, she turned the back and saw his

‘Your husband‘

she subconsciously looked around the room. As expected, their clothes were flying everywhere. Slowly, she

demon!!” She screamed. Thanks to that, her headache was agitated. She hurriedly drank the soup with

of showing remorse, lie’s boldly claiming the title

not going to allow this!

soup, Jeslyn stayed in bed for a while before she entered the bathroom and tied a towel around her

was probably in the sitting room. She marched to the sitting, ignoring the fact that she was still feeling dizzy and discomfort.

her. It was her first time drinking,

room, it was… empty. She went to the kitchen- empty. Other rooms- empty! Jeslyn knitted her brows. She knew that Maverick cannot bring her here and abandon her, so she went outside. Maverick was nowhere to be found but what she found was a pink sea that stretched as far as her

seeing was beyond her. Sea and filled everywhere

coconut trees.

was added to explain the scenery, she would say that the sea was moved forward

is going on here?” Jeslyn asked herself as she blinked at the wonder she

blue sky, a big apology message was written with whatever it could be.

nor push the blame onto someone else. Your husband was weak and he deserved to be punished but in

allow it.

you forgive me, come to

laughed. She couldn’t fathom Maverick doing