Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

384 Paying his debt.

After the charity event, Jeslyn left to find her husband’s car waiting for her at the parking lot. Full of happiness, she ditched her friends and hurried to him. Before she could get closer, Code 5 got out and opened the car door for her. (

“Code 5?” She was stunned when she saw him.

The guy bowed, “At your service, Madam.”

“It’s really you!” Excited, Jeslyn almost hugged him but Code 5 was quick enough to stop her.

Inside the tinted car, Maverick, who was reading a book, closed it while looking at his wife who almost hugged another man in his presence.

A few moments later, Jeslyn entered the car only to come face to face with her husband’s dark looks. It Startled her for a moment.

“Plum?” she called, uncertain about why he looked gloomy.

“Hm.. you are done,” he said passively,

Jeslyn looked at him skeptically for a moment before she smiled. “You don’t look happy.”

Maverick ignored her and turned his gaze to code 5, “Take a few days break to heal.”

Code 5 glanced at his boss from the rear mirror before nodding, “Yes master…”

Jeslyn was dazed. She couldn’t Place fingers on why he’d suddenly give Code 5 who just returned to work after so long, off days. Whatever, that’s not her problem.

As the car drove quietly across the city, Jeslyn broke the silence.

from Rex telling me what was going on at your end. hope you weren’t given too much trouble at the Lu

at his wife. “You wanted

seconds to register what her husband was talking about. She looked at him speechlessly for some time before she burst out into a pile

the car in silence. His mind started blaming him for the decision he made. If he had known he wouldn’t have taken the Job from code 2, however, he did that because he wanted Jeslyn to see that he is fine now and also, to make things easier for Code 2. Who was meant to stay

hear words whenever she came to visit him. The days that only his master would drop by, he

knew that his master cared about his health and was worried that his wife would keep

He was carried away by his thoughts for a while. After not hearing their voices anymore, he glanced at the rear mirror only to see the two engaging in an intimate

tried to focus on

to

loss for what to do. The dog food he was dished was way

two disengaged after a while but Maverick was crazy for

She whispered. Holding his handsome face, she asked him, “Tell me, how did

in no time, he unzipped her gown from behind,

her neck and bit it

This was

“Plum-”

could speak further, he

coming from Jeslyn while Maverick was breathing heavily from what she was doing to

home, he finally decided

ancestors of my Lu family are courting death… Your mother–in–law is mentally exhausted and

don’t look happy with your achievement.

her

come?

“His birth mother.”

that woman gone

he replied while soothing

times. “What did you do to her?”

I felt so too, so I sent