Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

After observing him to this point, Jeslyn regained her composure and said:

"I thought the company would evict you for leaving without a word to anyone." Her hate for this guy suddenly planted itself in her heart and started to sprout. How dare he try to be her husband!

He smiled, but this time, it wasn’t how Maverick would smile. That gave Jeslyn a moment of relief from the suffocating feeling she was having.

"They already did. They terminated my contract a few minutes ago."

"Good for you. If you’ll excuse me, I have a business to attend to." The minute she walked past him, he yanked her back. Jeslyn panicked and a yelp escaped her lips. The pull was too sudden for her to react, so she almost fell, but luckily, he was quick to stop her from falling. With his hand wrapped tightly around her waist, he pulled her to his chest.

Jeslyn almost lost her breath. But by the time she realized what was happening, she was securely in his arms.

"Let me go!!" She yelled and immediately pushed him hard on the chest.

Her push did nothing to him. Instead, he gently pulled her mask down. Jeslyn stiffened. His boldness took her by surprise.

"Your son is too playful... though you’re still very beautiful." He smiled and put the mask back on for her before letting her go.

"Paah!!!"

The fuming Jeslyn didn’t waste a second before she landed a deafening slap on his face. "How dare you touch me like that?!"

The slap broke the corner of his lower lip. Ruben looked at her with tenderness in his gaze as he cleaned the blood with his tongue. He smiled one more time before he leaned forward, prompting Jeslyn to move back.

That smile sent chills down her spine. She looked around them but no one was in sight except for her car and another black car that was a distance away. ’Where are my guards,’ she thought they were behind her earlier.

"Don’t be scared, I would never hurt you." He tried to touch her again but she was quick to invade his creepy hands. If she had a gun or a dangerous object on her, she would have ended his life or given him a fatal injury.

This incident served as a reminder for her to always take a defensive weapon with her, everywhere she goes from now on.

The coldness in her eyes as she stood defensively against him hurt his heart so much that he couldn’t wait around any longer. "Rossa, I will be back." He whispered and left.

By the time Jeslyn’s guards got there, he had entered his black car and zoomed off.

Code 5 rushed over as asked. She looked extremely angry as she stood by the bar gate. Wasn’t she supposed to be inside the company by now? "Ma’am, are you ok?"

"Where the hell have you been?!" Jeslyn fired a response without holding back her rage.

Code 5 was startled for a second but immediately bowed his head and responded. "There was an accident on the way."

They were following behind Jeslyn when she left Valen’s school, but after a while, they were blocked by some cars which wouldn’t let them overtake, nor speed off. Because of that, they ended up causing an accident, which was why the guards came to Jeslyn late.

Hearing that, calmness washed over her and she asked with her gaze roaming his body to find blood, "Hope you’re not injured?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"No, Ma’am."

She looked in the direction Reuben left, before returning to her car and driving into the company.

...

Meanwhile, at school...

The kids in grade 9 could be seen drawing with their markers while the teacher walked around in supervision. After they were done, she collected the papers.

Before she left, she instructed, "Your two-hour nap time starts now. Anyone who causes trouble will be duly punished." Her gaze lingered on Valen and Zack before she walked away.

Valen gazed around the class, the majority of the students were getting ready to take a nap. Mia, on the other hand, stood up from her seat with a mini gift box and walked over to Valen. Standing beside him, she lowered her eyes and stretched the gift with both hands.

"Valen... Yesterday was my birthday. I brought you a cake... Please, have it and wish me a happy birthday." She sounded nervous and unconfident.

In no time, her drama drew everyone’s attention and her friends came around to stick with her.

Valen looked from the shy Mia to the gift box and said after a long time. "Were you not taught that when someone doesn’t like you, you shouldn’t bother them?"

"Valen?"

"Valen, don’t be rude and cocky! What if you’re the son of Alpha Chaos and Jeslyn? Must you take after your bad father?!" one of Mia’s friends yelled from the side.

"True, his mother is so nice and sweet. My older brothers like her music very much...Too bad he isn’t as nice as his mother!"

"Stop it, you two. Valen is–"

"It’s just a cake, right? Why don’t you accept it? Are you scared?" Zack Lu came over with his friends, portraying the characteristics of a bully.

Valen looked condescendingly at them. "You want to lose some more weight?" Valen smirked.

"You–!" Zack stopped himself from fighting. He didn’t want to end up getting beaten like the other time.

"Coward!" Valen snorted before leaving the classroom.

Mia felt saddened and returned to her seat, so did her friends, who kept on trying to make her feel better.

"Mia, Valen has embarrassed you a lot of times. Why don’t we teach him a lesson? I’m sure he would start respecting you afterwards," Zack proposed.

"I support that too," one of Mia’s friends added.

"What are you planning?" Mia asked them. Provided they won’t hurt Valen, but rather make him stop hating her, she’d listen to them.

"Come closer," the children came together to come up with a plan to make Valen feel sorry and start treating Mia with respect.

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