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!”

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

indeed started to take his academic studies serious and even outdid Maverick’s friends, still no matter

invitation for Damien to appear on the island was sent to the Yu

Damien.

Maverick could, then he also can. With that, he bribed the informant

some months and when he finally came out by pretending to be very sick, he realized that Maverick had taken over his late father’s dying company

was no family to him anymore, and also for the fact that Maverick was way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that forced everyone

leader of 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 honor the invite, he sent a message to tell Damien that he will forever be worthless and would

started 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 day that

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,

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

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 cruel joke and

How could an outsider get so

his plan to fit in Jeslyn and Vera without having to change the whole plan, he realized Jeslyn’s family was weird, so he tried

was still searching for his Rossa, that was when he built a nice chess game and started playing the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute for Rossa and watched from the side as Maverick treated Vera

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