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… not

She frowned. Only Maverick had she seen breaking

sentences.

only too lazy

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

‘Your husband‘

around the room. As expected, their clothes

that, her headache was agitated. She hurriedly drank the soup

on her, and instead of showing remorse, lie’s boldly claiming the title

going to

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

the sitting room. She marched to the sitting, ignoring the fact that she was still feeling dizzy and discomfort. Although her throbbing headache had subsided a lot, there

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

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

was beyond

coconut trees.

explain the scenery, she would say that the sea was moved forward and the house she was standing in was built in the

herself as she blinked

blue sky, 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

allow it.

to the back of

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