Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

253 Convincing her husband

Maverick sat on the bed with a file in hand. He lowered the file and looked at the woman eating dessert and pretending he was not there. He looked back at the file and suddenly smirked before he threw the paper to the bed. 1

“You can’t be with us for five years?… Do you agree with that?” He asked.

“Ahem!” Jeslyn choked on the piece of cake she was about to swallow. “Ahem! Ahem! Ahem!!” She cleared her throat after coughing a few times.

“I- I was waiting for your opinion.” She smiled while cursing Rex in her heart. The betrayer didn’t do as promised. She knew it wouldn’t be easy to convince this man and Valen that was why she got Rex invoked but he only handed the file to Maverick and ran away.

“My opinion? But you already signed the contract.” He said while looking at her artistic signature. 1 “Ah, it was by mistake. My new manager has an overwhelming aura around her, so I got pressured and signed it without reading it. Hehehe…” She lied.

“Oh, her aura is stronger than mine, isn’t it?” He raised a brow at her obvious lie.

Jeslyn hurriedly waved her hands. “N- no, no, that’s not what I meant. I… ahem!” She got lost.

Maverick shook his head. “You are married with a child. What do you think of that?” How can he allow his wife to live in a separate place for 5 years? It’s inconceivable!

Jeslyn swallowed. “I thought about it.”

“And…?”

seen through her since the beginning, so she got up and walked to the bed. Squatting in front of him, she held his arm and shook it a little before she started to explain:

I’m worthless and shouldn’t be married to you. A lot of women would come at

I thought you didn’t care?” He asked her while looking at the cat expression on her face. His wife is indeed gifted in acting cute, helpless, and innocent. He knew that whatever she says wouldn’t be her main reason but pride.

-or grow heavy with fury if we

only air their opinions if I allow

gossiping about his wife in the open? It’s an unarguable fact that tongues must wag no matter if she’s richer than Maverick or

of him than anyone else. Provided jealousy and envy exist, haters must

her head. “That’s the quality of a tyrant. Listen Plum, I won’t be the only one getting backlashes from the envious people. Our son would too. The world is sick and they find faults with literally everything, so our son might be bullied. When they have nothing to provoke him

his son, and neither would Valen care.

fully on you. I need to work and earn my own money

what he wanted to hear. “Did you have to go through the long route? I was

that doesn’t mean I won’t have eyes

his lap. “From all you’ve said, you only

it like that, ah, make it a

who depends on her husband’s money?”

the same thing” She lightly slapped his

“Haha… greedy wife?”

“Maverick!!”

“Hahaha…”