Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Emilee placed down her cutlery and dabbled a handkerchief on her lips before speaking: "Protecting her secret is your duty. Giving you what you want is her responsibility. However, I wouldn’t want to hear sad stories coming from your side." She paused and raised her eyes to look into his deep black ones.

The young man sighed after a while of silence before speaking. "I only deal with virgins. Is she?"

Emilee looked at Christine who wasn’t paying attention to their conversation. "Yes, she is," Emilee replied on her behalf.

"Then that’s good." The young man replied with his eyes on Christine. "Although that is so," he paused. "The secret is still too much to be hidden. Your sister is not talented, she can’t sing and can’t write her own music, yet, She’s a B– lister. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You’ll need more than being a virgin to make things work." He slowly placed his hand on Christine’s lap and rubbed it gently.

Christine flinched and bolted up. She gritted her teeth and tried to suppress the words that were about to spill out of her mouth. After riling in her emotion, she said calmly: "Sister, I’d like to use the restroom."

"Mn," Emilee responded and watched her hurry out.

After she left, Emilee picked up a glass of wine and threw it at the Young Master’s face. "Do you think I can’t kill you?"

The Young Master froze after the drink got on him but later, he smiled and picked out a few servet papers to wipe his face. "You know you can’t kill me even though you want to," he replied. Then his face turned serious. "I have the organization backing me and I’m also the Young Master of the Wu family. You don’t expect me to respect you when you don’t deserve it, do you?" He raised a brow. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Emilee gritted her teeth and balled her hand. This is why she desperately needs to collaborate with Maverick. Even though she’s the leader of the Yu family, no one respects her from the outside. Some minions see her as the boss but those that matter in the family don’t. If it wasn’t because of the ATOM she injected Damien, they would have long killed her.

Although, she said that she has the antidote, it was a pure lie. She only has half the method of preparing the antidote but can’t make it or give full detail on how it is made.

She knows she is in grave danger, and that’s why she is using Christine. She planned to have this Young Master who is obsessed with virgins to fall in love with Christine. The Wu family is the fourth richest and most powerful family in Country M. Also, they have a high position in the Dark Age organization. If she could gain their support through Christine, it would be of great benefit to her.

Ever since she took office, she had been making peace with all the powerful people Damien offended. Her reason for doing so is to have her own power, connection, and influence. If things go as planned, nothing, including Ruben, would be a threat to her.

She calmly looked at the Young Master and asked: "What else do you want?"

The Young Master smiled. "I want–"

...

Christine barged into the restroom with her eyes stinging with tears. She knew that her relationship with her sister wasn’t the best but she never expected her sister to treat her like this.

How could her sister do this to her? If her own blood sister uses her for a deal, what is she supposed to do with her heart? She loves Maverick and Emilee knows that, so why is she forcing her into someone else’s bed? Why can’t she use her power to get her into Maverick’s bed? Why?!!

She raised her head and looked at the reflection of her teary face in the mirror. Not liking what she was seeing, she swept the soap on the washing basin away in fury. The soap rolled towards the restroom door and stopped when the door was pushed open.

Jeslyn walked in and entered a cubicle.

Christine didn’t notice because she had her head down while silently crying. A while later, she stopped crying and started washing her face. That was when she heard the cubicle door making a cracking sound.

Thinking it was her sister, she immediately turned around and instantly froze when she saw who it was.

"Jes– Jeslyn?"

Jeslyn wasn’t wearing her glasses but her mask was still on. Seeing Christine, she was also taken aback but was quick enough to compose herself and slowly raise her hand to take off the mask. She curled her beautiful sexy nude lips into a small smile. "Yes... sister?" She called the word ’sister’ with mockery.

With that, Christine immediately knew that Jeslyn still hates her. She got over her shock and asked with envy and hatred in her tone. "What are you doing here... in Country M?"

As if she didn’t know.

Jeslyn continued to look at her without speaking. She couldn’t believe her nemesis was here, standing right in front of her. What is the best way to start her revenge? Kill her in one go? No, that’s too good. She already has something planned out for her. Beat her up? That’s not lady–like.

"Oh, I think I know. Your ’husband’ is allegedly, Mr. Maverick." She air quoted the word ’husband’, then laughed. "Did you become Mr. Maverick’s toy after running away from us? Jeslyn, aren’t you ashamed? You won the case, why didn’t you come back home? Instead, you ran after an unknown man. Is the money he pays to sleep with you that enticing, that you’d lose your integrity for it? How much does he pay you as his s3x toy?" Christine crossed her hands on her chest and rested her weight on the sink. She wanted to mock Jeslyn and rile her up. She was in a bad mood already, so using Jeslyn to dispense her anger would be excellent. So she thought.

Jeslyn sighed helplessly. These people. They know how to seek death. They walk to her with their own feet and then use their mouths to beg for death. Such an amazing family she has got.