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… not poisoned.’

frowned. Only Maverick had she seen breaking words or saying words in

sentences.

only too lazy

put the small note away, she turned the back and saw his title boldly written there like her eyes were too small to notice it if he had used less ink and

‘Your husband‘

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

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

on her, and instead of showing remorse, lie’s boldly claiming the title he didn’t consider and also

she’s not going

before she entered the bathroom and tied a towel around her waist. She couldn’t find

who brought her here was probably in the sitting room. She marched to the sitting, ignoring the fact that she was

It was her first time drinking,

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

was beyond her. Sea and filled

coconut trees.

was moved forward and the house she was standing in was built in the middle

herself as she blinked at the wonder she was seeing.

a big apology message was written with whatever it

I’m sorry. Please don’t hold it against me. 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 deserved to be punished but in a different way. Whatever you want, please say it but certainly not divorce. I

allow it.

you forgive me, come to the back of the

the writing disappeared and a red broken heart popped up. Jeslyn laughed. She couldn’t fathom Maverick