Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

320 Scheming competition.

“Who sent them?… Emilee, Christine, who?” She got up and walked towards her husband who was standing by the door.

“You already guessed,” he replied.

“Emilee won’t try to kill me just yet because she knows she’d lose more. It’s none other than Christine.” Jeslyn shut her eyes witli her fingers on her husband’s buttons, slowly opening them.

“You still like her?” he asked.

“It’s a little hard to kill her,” she replied with her eyes still shut in pain. She gave Christine so much time, thinking that girl would cultivate a redeeming quality; just one would have been enough to forgive her but now….

“Should I kill her for you?”

“No,” Jeslyn shook her head and slowly opened her eyes. “I’ll take care of her myself.”

Maverick nodded. “I’ll go with you…you can’t say no, he shut back the objection that was about to escape her lips.

“Fine. How is Lolita?” She looked up at Maverick.

Seeing the look of pain still in her eyes, Maverick immediately answered, “I haven’t received a call from Matt. He’s still in the theatre.”

Jeslyn subconsciously gritted her teeth. Her face turned dark and her hands gripped her husband’s shirt tightly.

Maverick didn’t disturb her, nor did he tell her that she was scratching his chest with her long nails. He endured even when his chest was starting to bleed from her scratches.

“If anything happens to Lolita…” she paused when she caught sight of the wound on her husband’s chest. She quickly let go of his chest but before she could pull back her hands, Maverick held them to

his chest.

doesn’t hurt like how your heart is aching right

of tears settled in Jeslyn’s eyes. She didn’t intend to cry but her husband’s words were too

up at his cold

alone,” he said and pulled her into a tight embrace.

are you bullying her

entirely shut the door before Jeslyn

Jeslyn freed herself from the hug and quickly cleaned her tears with Maverick’s shirt before

he harrumphed with

Jeslyn

crying? Don’t lie to me. Your eyes are red, your nose is red, your…” he gestured for

like a rock. Valen let go of his mother’s hair and walked towards his father. Took his two hands and scrutinized his

at his father’s face, still he wasn’t able to release

did nothing to me,” she grabbed her son and pulled him to the

for him, Mom,” he raised his small palm

crossed it with hers. “I promise, your papa loves me the most. He has never hurt me… physically before and he still won’t

future.”

nothing, her pettiness wouldn’t make her stop talking about it once in a while, especially when she and her son intended to bully

head and took off his shirt before heading to

he can’t hurt you again. Tomorrow, there might be red dots on your skin and it won’t

at his son. “You have

today,” Valen returned

his son. “I heard you bullied a

out.”

do if not to make his mother angry at him, and then send him to his room? This means Valen would sleep alone again today and his father would get

mother.

Never!

from his mother’s glare. He slowly turned back. As expected,

it’s that pest again-”