Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

178 Seeking help

“What is going on?” Maverick asked passively.

“May-”

“Brother, she’s my woman now.” Rex smiled with squinted eyes. Maverick could feel the happiness he was radiating. 2

“Rex!” Celestine balled her fist as she waited to hear what Maverick would say.

“What? He’s still going to find out, after all, you’re my fiance now… we got engaged, didn’t we?” 2

Celestine almost cried in shame. Rex had always been a blabbermouth, but this time, he was obviously doing it to force her into having no other choice than to accept him.

Maverick’s eyes trailed down to Celestine’s finger and he saw the sparkling diamond ring smiling at him.

The ring is big and beautiful, it calls people’s attention and announces to them that Celestine was

taken.

Celestine slowly hid the hand behind her and waited with a drumming heart for Maverick’s verdict. Maverick said nothing as he looked from the nervous Celestine to the excited Rex. After a while of silence, he finally opened his mouth. “Take care of her.”

told you, my brother has no problem with

up. “Mav, I’m disappointing you. I tried to fight the

sorry for

in his trousers and looked towards Matt’s office

young. When she lifted her eyes again, she smiled bitterly. “I will.”

his head to look at her. “You both couldn’t help it. He took his hand off his trousers‘

allow the three of them to sort themselves out. Matters of the heart have always been a force to reckon with. He found out a few years ago that both of them had developed feelings for each other and had been silently

ruined her marriage to create another chance for his brother. He did all that before he knew Matt also loves

can settle things diplomatically when

buried her face in his chest. Maverick was caught off guard. His eyes

off Maverick while saying, “Stay away from my brother, he has a

Maverick

Vera was in her room, reading a text on her phone. After she was done, she sent a reply before pulling out the sim card. She walked to the bathroom

go? They haven’t left the house because I have been by the window; watching outside… don’t tell me they are inside their room-” her eyes snapped open when she thought of the possibility that they might be having s3x.

a blue coat and drafted it

think that they would be in Jeslyn’s room but just as she turned, her eyes involuntarily gazed at the two closed

wheels of her legs and she started to walk slowly towards the doors like she was

her hand to touch the knob but held it back and balled the hand. She looked right, then left,

be difficult but the way

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room? Why would her boss tell her to

these were questions Vera cannot