Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 320

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. 

“It’s only a scratch. It doesn’t hurt like how your heart is aching right now.” 

A pool of tears settled in Jeslyn’s eyes. She didn’t intend to cry but her husband’s words were too sweet that she couldn’t help the tears. 

“Plum,” she said slowly and looked up at his cold and handsome face. 

“I’m yours and yours alone,” he said and pulled her into a tight embrace. 

“I knew it! Whenever she’s with you, she always cries. Dad, are you bullying her again?” Valen’s small voice boomed from the door. 

Yeah, Maverick didn’t entirely shut the door before Jeslyn started querying him. 

“Vaien” Jeslyn freed herself from the hug and quickly cleaned her tears with Maverick’s shirt before she faked a smile and turned to her son. 

“Hmph,” he harrumphed with an annoyed face. 

“What now,” Jeslyn chuckled. 

“Why are you crying? Don’t lie to me. Your eyes are red, your nose is red, your…” he gestured for her to lower her height and when she did, he lifted her hair to see her right ear. 

“… Your car is red.” Valen shifted his eyes to his father who was standing there like a rock. Valen let go of his mother’s hair and walked towards his father. Took his two hands and scrutinized his palms, making sure it wasn’t red. 

“Dad, why is she crying if you didn’t hit her?” he narrowed as he stared up at his father’s face, still he wasn’t able to release the ‘manly‘ air he intended to. 

“Hahahaha…” Jeslyn laughed wholeheartedly. “Son, your father did nothing to me,” she grabbed her son and pulled him to the bed. 

“You are covering for him, Mom,” he raised his small palm and cleaned her cheeks even though nothing was on them. 

“Muah,” Jeslyn pecked his soft cheeks. She took his pinky finger and crossed it with hers. “I promise, your papa loves me the most. He has never hurt me… physically before and he still won’t in the 

future.” 

Jeslyn almost said he had never hurt her before until she remembered Vera’s case. Even though Maverick did nothing, her pettiness wouldn’t make her stop talking about it once in a while, especially when she and her son intended to bully her husband. 

Maverick shook his head and took off his shirt before heading to the bathroom, ignoring the two. 

“I knew it, he hurt you before. Mom, I want to sleep here so he can’t hurt you again. Tomorrow, there might be red dots on your skin and it won’t be good for your VJ Cute’s performance in two days. 

Maverick froze and turned to glare at his son. “You have a test tomorrow, don’t you?” 

“Test ended today,” Valen returned the glare. 

Maverick narrowed his eyes on his son. “I heard you bullied a girl again. Your mom won’t be happy if 

she finds out.” 1 

Valen’s lips fell apart and he blinked. His mother was right beside him and his father just revealed his secret! What else is he planning to 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 to sleep with his 

mother. 

Never! 

Valen could already feel the heat on his head from his mother’s glare. He slowly turned back. As expected, she was looking angry. 

“Mom, it’s that pest again-” 

“She has a name,” Jeslyn’s frown deepened, causing Maverick’s lips to curl up in a smile. 

Valen caught that smile and his face darkened. He opened his button–up shirt and pulled it down. On 

his arm was a red tooth mark. 

“See, Mom, she bit me. That was why I got rude, but I didn’t hit her, I promise.” 

Jeslyn gasped when she saw the faint red mark on her son’s arm. “She did this to you?!” 

“Yes, Mom,” Valen raised his gaze at his father and smiled. 

“This is very bad of her. Good that you didn’t hit her-” 

“Women are delicate and kind creatures, yet ruthless when provoked. Are you sure you didn’t provoke her?” Maverick asked passively. 

Jeslyn raised her brow at her son, waiting for him to respond. 

Valen bit his lower lip. Can he sell his father?! He thought. 

“Valen?” Jeslyn called in a questioning voice. 

“Mom, I’m your son, he’s your husband. Can’t you see he’s scheming?” he pouted. Looking extremely 

cute. 

“Ah, you are also scheming, just like him… after all, you are his carbon copy… I’ll go and sleep at Pink’s tonight. Goodnight to both-” 1 

“Mom!” 

“Candy!” 

-They both called. 

Valen turned sharply to look at his father. “What is candy?“