Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

191 Maverick’s fear

Jeslyn had questioned him about his manner of bringing Valen up when she first met the child. He didn’t defend himself but allowed her to vent. What would he say when the child was the smaller version of him? Would he say he had no good upbringing too? (1)

His mother might have been the most worthless mother to ever exist but his father was the best dad. anyone could ever have.

Lu Hao was kind, gentle, loving, and an extrovert who makes people happy. Lu Hao single–handedly raised him, yet Maverick turned out to be another version of his grandfather.

All these years, Maverick seemed not to care about his son and allowed Mulan to do what she did, it’s

not because he didn’t care, but because he knew Son like he knew himself. He knew that no

matter what morals are taught to him, Valen would end up becoming another Maverick.

Valen is like a rubber band. No matter how far you stretch it, it returns to its normal size.

That was why he married Jeslyn. Firstly, he didn’t know why he went soft on her and her grandfather on the first day they met. However, now, he understood it was because of the love he had always had for her.

Secondly, his intuition told him that Jeslyn would be able to make his son more humane than himself.

“The love and care of a mother work wonders, so he heard, but it seems he gave birth to another Maverick, and Jeslyn can’t do much to change him.

That child is only compassionate to his mother and no one else.

Maverick got up from his office chair and dipped one hand in his trousers pocket as he headed out with the phone still on his ear.

entering the elevator with Code 2

was determined to reach the heavens, a convoy with a red car in the middle was parked outside the gate and a guard wearing the Yu family’s uniform was talking to the security men by the gate who seemed to be adamant

call from one of the black cars behind her. Her Assistant told her the meeting

was already here, should she return

beside her sister, so she said; “But we are

my fault,” Emilee replied as she flipped the magazine she

“How?”

are still thirty minutes left.” There was still half an hour left before the meeting which was enough for anyone to cancel an

we are already here, shouldn’t

sister. “This is not Country A or Rose City. You don’t get to do as you wish.”

head while

much about the dos and don’ts. of the Country. This was her

black car drove out.

family’s head is here,” he said.

the headrest with his eyes closed. He didn’t reply when he heard that. Meaning, there

out of the way, Code 2 zoomed off.

the car from the window until

Emilee

but her heart said otherwise.

calm and peaceful like always. Vera walked in awkwardly, thanks to

doing their chores without looking at her. She didn’t find it odd because the servants had always been like that, so she walked to

breathe for a long time until she felt she was suffocating, did she let herself

so badly that she

a

broken and the tiled floor

did it. Only that cursed child