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.

the hangover soup…

had she seen breaking words or

sentences.

only too lazy

saw his title boldly written there like

‘Your husband‘

looked around the room. As expected, their clothes were flying everywhere. Slowly, she lowered her eyes and raised the blanket. Of course,

agitated. She hurriedly drank the soup with her heart maging.

showing remorse, lie’s boldly claiming the

she’s not going to

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

sitting, ignoring the fact that she was still feeling dizzy and discomfort. Although her

It was her first time drinking, yet, she drank more

and abandon her, so she

was seeing was beyond

coconut trees.

that the sea was moved forward and the house she was standing in was built in the middle of

Jeslyn asked herself as she blinked at the wonder

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

It was a mistake done in my weakest state. I won’t shy away from it, nor push the blame onto someone else. Your husband was weak and he

allow it.

come to the back

red broken heart popped up. Jeslyn laughed. She couldn’t fathom Maverick doing this. It must