Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 194

194 Visiting Madam Caroline. 

“Wh- what are you saying?” Jeslyn’s lips quivered. What son? How is that possible?! She’ll be glad to be Valen’s real mother but certainly not by playing such a joke on her. 1 

Maverick couldn’t talk much, so he glanced at Rex who sighed before opening the can of worms. Even after the whole story from how she slept with Maverick to how she got into a coma was revealed, Jeslyn still couldn’t believe It. 

Yes, she has a memory of how she got pregnant and how she gave birth. But isn’t that just another realistic nightmare like every other day? 

“Hold on, let’s assume there’s truth in what you’re saying. Why don’t I have any recollection? In that dream, I gave birth to a girl and not a boy… Maverick, I don’t understand anything. Please, don’t tell me it’s true.” Large teardrops fell on her cheeks. 

Valen was offended and heartbroken. He had been praying for Jeslyn to be his mother. Now that it turned out she was, she didn’t want to accept him? 

The child balled his small hands and lowered his head to hide his eyes which were slowly turning red from holding back his tears. 

This pained him more than anything he has ever experienced. 

“I did a DNA test for you two.” He looked at Rex and gestured with his eyes for him to go get the report from his room. 

Even when Jeslyn was holding the paper in her shaking hands, she still couldn’t believe it. 

“Mummy, don’t you want me?” For the first time in his life, Valen sounded pitiful. It shocked Rex so much that he thought for a second that Valen was switched. 

Jeslyn slowly looked at the child whose eyes were brimming with tears. She didn’t know when she let go of the paper and hugged him. “Mummy loves you. I promise!” t 

Maverick watched the mother and child with relief in his heart. Before Pink took some time off work, she told him everything which was what he had been waiting for all this while. 

How could he tell Jeslyn an incomplete story or a theory of how Valen suddenly became her child? Of course, he needed solid proof that rhymes with her nightmares for her to believe. 

Now that this was solved, he has to find out Ruben’s interest in all of these and as for Damien Yu, he shouldn’t bother coming out of hiding, cause he’ll be sorry. 

Like he remembered something, Maverick got up and side–eyed Rex who immediately followed him 

out. 

“Where are we going, brother?” 

Maverick didn’t respond and got into his car. 

Caroline had just received a call and her face was gloomy when Piper walked into the sitting room from upstairs. 

“Mum, I’m heading out.” She said nonchalantly without sparing her mother a look. 

“You can’t go anywhere today. Cancel your meetings.” 

“But why mum? I have a contract to sign and it’s very important.” 

Madam Caroline looked at her and sighed. “We need to talk. My plans to use Vera failed and she’s killed.” She massaged her temple, feeling annoyed. 

“Ok… what has that got to do with me? Didn’t I tell you to leave my brother and his woman alone?” 

“Why should I?! He is my son! I carried him for nine months and fed him my breast milk for three months! I had to listen to the nanny’s complaints and nagging for so long and-” 

Piper rolled her eyes. “Mother, there’s no need for you to scream the house down. We both know the truth, so don’t try to emotionally blackmail me. All I can tell you right now is that you’re pushing brother too far. I believe after what you have done, he still kept you alive because you brought him 

into this world. I won’t-” 

“Shut your mouth, you hypocrite!” Madam Caroline threw her a pillow in a fit of rage. 

Piper caught the pillow and laughed. She didn’t take her mother seriously. “I know I’m no good either, but I know how to tell the truth. You’re messing with brother and one day, he might lose his mind. and… Kyia!” She made a slitting throat gesture before laughing again. 1 

Madam Caroline waved her hand wearily, “get out, 

get out!” 

“Thank you ma, hahahaha…” 

Sometime later at Madam Caroline’s house… 

Madam Caroline was still in the sitting room, massaging her temple. She heard the sound of the door and without looking she spoke, thinking it was Piper. 

“I told you to-” her words got stuck in her throat when she saw who it was. 

Maverick and Rex! 

Rex’s disgust couldn’t be hidden. It was obvious he didn’t want to be here. Maverick on the other hand, had no expression to give out what he was feeling. 

Madam Caroline bolted up from the couch in utter shock. Her kids were here? This was the first time in 22 years plus that her children and get had been in the same closed space. They’d met at parties and ceremonial places but had never been this close before. 

The woman looked at her children with mesmerized eyes. They are very good–looking, anyone would want to have them in their family. Maverick looks like their grandfather and Rex looks like their -father. 

No one would deny that they came from the Lu family. 

“Re–Renren…? Xiao bao…?” She called their names like she wasn’t sure it was real. 

Rex almost puked when those words left her lips. Wasn’t those the names that were too heavy for her to say years back? Didn’t she call him, “this thing!” And called Maverick, “an orphan?” Where did she 

suddenly learn those names from? Which professional told her that children should be addressed by 

their names? 

“Do we still have a relationship that hasn’t been severed?” Maverick asked flatly. 

“H–huh?” It was like her brain finally returned from travel. 

“State your price.” Maverick pulled out a check and pen and threw them on the table in front of her.