Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

243 The childhood conflict (2)

“Really? Do you have to do what Grandpa said to you? You are still very young and naive. Do you think no one would know what you are trying to achieve by being friends with the enemies? It’s obvious as day, Damien and that’s Why Maverick doesn’t like you. Not only are you following Grandpa’s plans, but you are also becoming a nuisance. You are not even as intelligent as his friends, you are the dumbest person in the class! Maverick only sees you as a stupid person and that’s why he’ll never like you!” 1

Those words broke Damien’s heart. His Grandfather didn’t tell him anything and he’s not trying to befriend Maverick for any malicious reason. He genuinely likes Maverick.

He looked at Maverick, waiting for him to deny the allegations the he saw him as a nuisance. He was waiting earnestly for Maverick to push Ruben and call him a liar, but Maverick didn’t. He only sneered and walked out.

Damien wanted to run after him to explain his own part but Ruben held him, preventing him from leaving. However, Damien refused to be stopped and forcefully pushed Ruben away, causing him to hit his head on the edge of the table.

Because Damien was in haste to leave, he didn’t see the blood coming out of his brother’s head, nor did he notice that his brother had fainted.

Outside the cafeteria, he finally stopped Maverick and explained that Ruben was lying, then he asked. Maverick what he thought about him.

“Just like your brother said, you are a nuisance, Get a life, you aren’t fit to be close to me. I despise you!”

pierced Damien’s heart and for years, they stuck to him like glue

to take his academic studies serious and even outdid Maverick’s friends, still no matter what he did, Maverick was always some steps ahead of him. He could

an invitation for Damien to appear on the island was sent to the Yu family but at that time, Damien was already locked away, so

Damien.

he also can. With that, he bribed the informant who always brought him news in the darkroom to

realized that Maverick had taken over

way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that

his family, he held a meeting with Maverick to ask him if he was now worthy to be his friend but not only did Maverick not

to do things out of line to prove to Maverick that he was wrong, he had always been wrong about him but Maverick kept angering him each

come to him and beg him for something, Damien set the scheme to involve a woman in his life, that was when he realized that Maverick loved a young child called Rossa, he tried to search for her but failed, still, he didn’t give up,

saw that after some years, he couldn’t find Rossa, he made his brother bring in Vera to stand as Rossa, but he changed his mind when he saw that Vera and Ruben were taking too long to appear at the hotel, SI he made

tried to kill Jeslyn to close that plothole to his plan but realized she was too pretty to die just like that. So he started to form another scheme where she would be useful, however, Destiny played a

could an outsider get so entangled in his meticulous

he realized Jeslyn’s family was weird, so he tried to dig deeper. However, the only thing he

when he built a nice chess game and started playing the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute

memory when the car came to a halt. He looked around and realized they