Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

155 Hacking

Maverick retracted his steps and returned to his sorrowful wife. (1

Seeing her like this tugs at his heartstring. “It’s just a dream,” he said while pulling her to rest on him. He only wanted her to take it easy but who would have thought that it would make things worse? “No, it’s not,” Jeslyn shook her head as tears gushed out of her red and swollen eyes. “It was too real to be a dream. Maverick,” she looked at him and slowly took his hand then placed it on her chest. “It hurts here,” she said.

“My heart… hurts, Plum. It feels like… like… I’m dying. My baby, I didn’t see my baby”

Maverick flattened his lips. He only does that when he is stressed or feeling emotional.

“I’ll find out what happened. Trust me,” he wiped her tears with his index finger and kissed her on the head before hugging her. (4)

Jeslyn cried even more before falling asleep in Maverick’s arms again.

After a while, Maverick laid her to bed before getting up to head to the sitting room. He didn’t stay long knowing Jeslyn might stir awake any moment and if she can’t find him, with that broken state she was in, she might start to panic.

Maverick returned to the room with a laptop and sat on the bed, making sure to be close enough so Jeslyn would feel that he was there.

He unblocked his laptop and opened a suspicious–looking app. After a while of accessing its features, a dark–themed blank space popped up and a moment later, a stream of code appeared. Maverick started to type away on his laptop.

Good thing the keyboard wasn’t making clicking sounds. The longer Maverick stayed on the laptop, the faster his fingers moved.

Soon his fingers started to blur due to how insanely fast he was going.

want to. Unbeknownst to them, every single thing captured on CCTV, no matter how relevant or irrelevant the things are, are being saved

privacy all to themselves, but these people controlling the world have nothing like ‘privacy‘ and ‘human rights‘ in their dictionaries.

want to ruin them, all they need to do is pass out an order for the person to be taken out and before they know it, ‘rumors‘ will suddenly start to spread from ‘nowhere‘ and then, when the person starts to defend themselves,

those evidence came from because

have known that the organization had its eyes set

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started to doubt the credibility of what he knew back then, he wanted to

went deeper into ‘those people’s‘ system, he realized that the particular video he was searching for could not

his lips. So there has finally been a footage that

was that there was a conspiracy going on and it has

search after hitting a dead end. He could detect traps everywhere. It would be bad if he got caught, so he pulled out. There are lots of departments he hasn’t hacked into anyway. The footage must

Maverick

birthday?”

and called Pink. “What do you know about

know nothing. I was out for work

me,”

Did something

before your sister

She took the

he cut her off.

hospital she visited for a check–up.

Maverick said before he ended the