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.

and they can delete or destroy the images whenever they want to. Unbeknownst to them, every single thing captured on CCTV, no matter how relevant or irrelevant the things are, are being

all to themselves, but these people controlling the world have

they know it, ‘rumors‘ will suddenly start to spread from ‘nowhere‘ and then, when the person starts to defend themselves, evidence about him is suddenly ‘dug‘ out from the internet to nail

evidence came

that the organization had its eyes set on all humans?

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CCTV footage of that night was ‘intact‘ and didn’t look fishy, now that Maverick had started to doubt the credibility of what he knew back

that the particular video he was searching for

curled his lips. So there has finally been a footage

was a conspiracy going on and it has got something to

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

Maverick

birthday?”

his laptop and called Pink. “What do

out for work

lie to me,” he

wouldn’t dare. Did something

before your sister died?”

took the fall for me…

he cut her off.

the hospital she visited for a check–up. What? What’s wrong?

said before he ended