Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

"What is going on here?"

Rex woke up from his stupified state and hurriedly pushed Jeslyn away.

Jeslyn was confused. In beautiful dreams like this, such things don’t happen. Wait, that voice...

Jeslyn and Rex simultaneously turned to look in the direction of the voice.

Her eyes turned saucers. He is here too? Why?

"B– brother, wh– who is... wh– what is she doing here?!"

"Huh?" Jeslyn looked at Rex who had his finger pointed at her while his large eyes rested on the man standing by the door.

The man had no expression on his cold face as he looked at her. Yes, his emotionless eyes were on her for a long time before he shifted his gaze and settled them on the blue-haired young man who still had his finger pointed at her.

"She’s my wife." He said before heading towards Jeslyn.

Rex felt different emotions run into him at once. One was disbelief, another was disbelief, and the third was... massive disbelief!

How could his brother say something so, so, so unbelievable?!

His mind suddenly started to spiral out of control as he started to remember the things that had happened and placed the missing puzzles.

They had gone to Rose City to look for crucial materials for their investigation. They booked the best hotel and on that fateful day, he and his brother decided to use the hotel’s bar. His brother had gone out to use the restroom and it took a long while before he returned.

On that same day was Jeslyn Lee’s wedding which was also taking place in the hotel. When his brother came back, he told him he had gotten married.

A week later, they were heading to the airport and a crazy lady asked to be given a ride to the cemetery and which was also where Jeslyn Lee’s grandfather was being buried.

Rex glanced at Jeslyn who was moving back from his brother and his brain spun to the right path. "The crazy Miss on that day was you!"

Well, his cry did nothing to pull those two’s attention.

Jeslyn had been crying in her mind for the dream goddess to take her back as the man in front of her was suffocating her with his handsomeness, plus his aura was too overwhelming for her to want to be around him.

’He’s dangerous!’ her mind had been screaming and she was not blind to that fact.

Well, she was... when she married him.

"M–Mr. S– stay right there, d– don’t come, take another step...ah!"

She yelped when she fell onto the couch. She hurriedly sat up and screamed, "dream goddess, I command you now, take me back!!"

Maverick paused at her scream with his eyes still on her.

Rex, who had been watching the show with his pointed finger following Jeslyn around, knitted his brows and let out a sound to show his confusion. "Huh?"

"Wait, " he put down his finger. "You think you are dreaming? Is that what I think it is?" He hurried over to stand beside Maverick.

"Of– of course. Does this look real to you?" Jeslyn replied while blinking.

"Pfft... hahahaha...." Rex couldn’t keep his snicker and laughed so hard that he held his stomach. He pointed a finger at her and said amidst laughter. "Jeslyn Lee, you are... hahaha..."

"Wh... what is it? What’s so funny?" Nobody answered her and she watched the man walk towards a single couch and sat down with one leg over the other.

After Rex had laughed his intestines out, he also sat beside Jeslyn and said while trying to look serious. "This is no dream, Lee."

Jeslyn looked around the house one more time and shook her head, "You can’t be serious." She refused to believe it.

The first reason was that she was clearly sleeping in the car and when she woke up, she met herself here.

Secondly, this house is too luxurious to be owned by someone in Rose City. Her Lee family was the richest. If they cannot afford a house like this, then no one in the whole City would dare. Unless they want to relocate to the slum.

Thirdly, Jeslyn was brought up in wealth and spoiled rotten with the latest brand of everything; from accessories, and clothes to furniture. She knows most of the brands and from all she had seen, starting from the room she woke up from, to the sitting room and even the style of the interior decor, no designer in the whole of country A does it.

"You are not in country A." Maverick finally spoke. From the way she was looking at the decorations in the sitting room, he figured out what she was thinking.

If Jeslyn had been shocked, now she was more flabbergasted at what she just heard.

"Wh– where am I?"

"Country M," he answered.

"Ahhhh!" Jeslyn screamed and jumped up to her feet.

Rex sighed. He was still wondering what his brother was thinking. How could he bring someone from another country into their country? Not even a strong-hearted person but a little puppy like Jeslyn Lee.

Now, he’s only going to sit back here and watch how his brother explains to her...

’wait, let me get my popcorn. Drama is about to begin! Hehehe’

Just when Rex was attempting to stand up and go get himself popcorn, he heard the devil say, "Rex, explain to her."

"Eh?" Rex looked at his brother and saw that his eyes were already closed and his head was resting on the chair. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

’Why again was I born as his junior brother?’ Rex asked himself with sorrow in his eyes.

How was he going to explain the situation he doesn’t know to this dumb young lady?

’Why is my life so hard?’

If only that idiot didn’t fail her mission, she wouldn’t have been sent to prison and would have been the one doing this trouble right now.

Rex sighed and motioned Jeslyn to sit down before he started to explain things to her, but what?