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!”

stuck to him like

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

to the Yu family but at that time, Damien was already locked away, so Ruben

Damien.

kill at the school because of his little brother, Damien was triggered. If Maverick could, then he also can. With

took some months and when he finally came out by pretending to be very sick, he realized that Maverick had taken over his late

was way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that forced everyone to submit to him.

his friend but not only did Maverick not honor the invite, he

do things out of line to prove to Maverick that he was wrong,

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

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 his men to kidnap any girl and send her to Maverick. Who would have thought that the guards

just like that. So he started to form another

an outsider get so entangled in

and Vera without having to change the whole plan, he realized Jeslyn’s family

and started playing the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute for Rossa and watched from the side as Maverick treated Vera as if

of his memory when the car came to a