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…?”

she say other than to come clean? She knew he had seen through her since the beginning, so she got up and walked to the bed. Squatting in

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

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

grow heavy with fury if we keep hearing such words being uttered against me. You’ll vent by killing some people but how many can you kill? There are approximately 200 million people living in this Country. Can you kill them all because they talked bad

can only air their opinions if I allow them.”

his wife in the open? It’s an

exist, haters

they find faults with literally everything, so our son might be bullied. When they have nothing to provoke him with, they could call his mother a gold digger. And trust Valen,

his son, and neither would Valen care. If anything,

know me. My pride and dignity won’t allow me to depend fully on you. I need to work and earn my own money too. I just want the idea of being a working mom and buying my children things. with my OWN hard–earned

finally said what he wanted to hear. “Did you have to go through the

have eyes for

her onto his lap. “From all you’ve said, you only convinced me with the last part…working–dependant–mom. Is it?”

put it like that, ah,

who depends on her husband’s

She lightly slapped his hand.

“Haha… greedy wife?”

“Maverick!!”

“Hahaha…”