Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 457

457 Ruben’s schemes 

Jeslyn grabbed the laptop from him and looked thoroughly at the picture. Indeed, he looked 100% like her husband. Her heart descended into a mess as she struggled to believe and not to believe the fact in front of her. 1 

Teardrops slipped down her eyes as she started to shake her head in a state of denial. 

“Impossible,” she mumbled, then yelled, “this is not true!!!” She bolted to her feet and slammed the laptop on the floor with all her strength, then looked at Reuben like a crazy woman. 

“My husband is still alive! Maverick is alive! I know it. I do not and can never believe anything that comes from you. You are a deceitful and evil person. Hahaha…Reuben, Maverick will come for you and he will kill-” 

“Enough!!” He finally yelled with anger seducing his face. 

“What’s so good about him? I met you before Maverick did! I was the third child on that sinking island. I saw you first and I liked you!” he yelled, then walled towards the glass wall with his back turned to Jeslyn, then said. 

“Kwanted to approach you, play with you, and request for you to be my friend, but that bastard stole my opportunity!” he turned to look at Jeslyn, wildly insane with his hands demonstrating and pointing in all directions as he tried to convey how angry he was. 

“He told his father to send me and my father away, merely because I appeared instead of Damien! If not, I would have been in his place right now!” 

“Hahaha… What a stupid ideology. So what if you were there? Who told you I would have liked you or wanted to be your friend? Huh?!! I don’t like you a single bit-” 

“You lie, you do like me. You liked Rubenstein, you liked Frank, so you would have liked me too!” 

“I don’t like Rubenstein but was only being nice to him because he looked pitiful!” 

“And Frank?” 

“Who is Frank?” 

“You don’t even remember him?… The guy who saved you from falling into the pool at a party you 

attended?” he frowned. 1 

That was when it dawned on her that the guy he was talking about was Ray’s best friend. 

“Why should I like my ex–boyfriend’s best friend? Are you insane… Oh yes, you are!” 

“Then let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, I was nine years old when I saw the lady I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. However, before I could approach her, she was stolen from me and I never saw her again. Twelve years later, I whispered a plan to my twin brother to ruin the person he thought was his nemesis. Actually, I made them hate each other but we aren’t going to be discussing 

that now. 

“The plan to ruin Maverick was to grab a teenage virgin girl, make her out to be Rossa, the lady he had been dying to find, make him sleep with her, and get her pregnant, But if she couldn’t get pregnant 

from the first night, we could make Rex sleep with her… it was a backup plan I didn’t tell my twin brother. 

“Fortunately, Maverick’s friends and brother took him to a hotel in Country G, prepared a girl for him and drugged him. The drug they used wasn’t the best, so I ordered a waitress to switch it. I sent the girl who was paid to sleep with Maverick away, so I could replace her with Vera, but unfortunately, I received a call that the little girl Maverick and I had been looking for, for almost thirteen years, had been found. 

“I left the hotel to look for her without knowing that you were at the hotel, celebrating your 18th birthday with your friends. Meanwhile, time was running out, so my good brother found out that no lady was in Maverick’s room yet, so he asked that any lady should be found as soon as possible. 

“The men saw you when you were being escorted to your hotel room, looking drunk. They felt it was the best option, so they took you to him. By the time your pictures and information were sent to me, it was already too late. That monster had devoured you, my jewel!” he took a deep calming breath 

before he continued.