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…?”

knew he had seen through her since the beginning,

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

asked her while looking at the cat expression on her face. His wife is indeed gifted in acting

sighed and sat beside him. “Even though we don’t want to care, our hearts and minds do care. My heart, including yours, will automatically break -or grow heavy with fury if we keep hearing such words being uttered against me. You’ll vent by

only air their opinions if I allow them.”

the open? It’s an unarguable fact that tongues must wag no matter if she’s richer than

and envy exist, haters must exist,

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. If anything, Valen would prefer that so no one would annoy him and let him live his life in peace.

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.

to hear. “Did you have to go through the long route? I was waiting

She winked. “However, that doesn’t mean I won’t have eyes for your money. Your money is more

her onto his lap. “From all you’ve said, you only convinced me with the

like that, ah, make

working mom who depends on her

the same thing” She lightly slapped his

“Haha… greedy wife?”

“Maverick!!”

“Hahaha…”