Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

“You are forgetting it’s my house. I can throw you out like you just threw my pillow. When I tell guys to stop running after quiet ladies, you won’t listen. Quiet ladies are ruthless, especially those that love you but know you don’t love them, so it’s even. Just throw her out and return to your carefree life.”

“Rex, just go.” Inspector Fin shooed him away before concentrating on the laptop.

Inspector Fin sighed and ruffled his already messy hair. Before his father died, he left his best friend’s daughter under his protection… Well, they were engaged from young. The girl had no family anymore either.

Fin didn’t intend to do anything with her but the spirit of beautiful ladies tempted him. Though she was at fault because she seduced him and now, she’s making his carefree life difficult. She wants a baby and he’s not intending for such a joke to happen. 1

Clicking on the send button, the laptop screen suddenly went blank.

Fin sighed. “So troublesome. You should know who you are messing with.” he took his phone and called Maverick.

“We got evidence on that witch that resides in your house. I tried sending it to you but it was intercepted by those people.”

“I’ll handle it from here,” Maverick responded before disconnecting the call.

Fin closed the laptop and lay on the couch to sleep. He was on break from work but cannot spend his time at his house. It’s not that he cannot get that girl to leave him alone but his family owes her family a huge favor, so for that, he’s tolerant of her.

The week flew by in a blink of an eye. Maverick and Jeslyn returned to the Country.

On arriving at the house she used to stay, Jeslyn found that changes had been made. Everything, from the sofa to the painting was changed to give the house a more ‘lively‘ vibe.

Jeslyn doesn’t have issues with the idea of redecorating the house but where her problem lay was- the perpetrator!

was nude. The brown couches were replaced with white couches. The brown curtains were changed to gray curtains. The center table brown rug

rugs.

looked boring and dead, just like Vera. 2 Maverick seemed not to care about the changes in his house. Provided the interior decor (Vera) didn’t go near his floor, then she’ll be fine. Jeslyn is the madam of the house. If she cannot handle such things, then it’s a

Jeslyn’s handbag as Jeslyn stood

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wonder.

the bag to

The house smells of Vera, so she didn’t need to ask to know that Vera

made the changes.

her room,” Riya answered.

and Valen’s room?” Jeslyn asked while the two were heading

her room.

to but I stopped her.”

my room because my room was an eyesore?” Jeslyn asked a rhetorical question with

feel it.

room, it was just as she left it. After surveying the room, she turned and went to Valen’s room. It wasn’t redecorated. She nodded in satisfaction before

butler.

Xuan, I don’t like this decoration. Call the interior decor and have them

at her and smiled, “yes, Ma’am.”

if it’s not Chef May or I cooking what my husband eats, don’t serve it… give me the list of all the servants in the

have someone send it to you in a moment.” The butler

“Good.”