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.

of protection 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

they have their privacy all to themselves, but

someone and 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, evidence about him is suddenly ‘dug‘ out from the internet

be wondering where those evidence came from

would they have known that the organization had its eyes set on

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that Maverick had started to doubt the credibility of what he knew back then, he wanted to find the real

system, he realized that the

there has finally been a footage that these people are hiding?

a conspiracy going on

his 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

Maverick

birthday?”

down his laptop and called Pink. “What do

out

to me,” he frowned.

wouldn’t dare. Did something

happened before your sister died?”

the fall for me…

he

the hospital she visited for a check–up. What? What’s wrong? Did something happen that I’m

Maverick said before he ended the call.