Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 167

“You are forgetting it’s my house. I can throw you out like you just threw my pillow. When I tell guys to stop running after quiet ladies, you won’t listen. Quiet ladies are ruthless, especially those that love you but know you don’t love them, so it’s even. Just throw her out and return to your carefree life.”

“Rex, just go.” Inspector Fin shooed him away before concentrating on the laptop.

Inspector Fin sighed and ruffled his already messy hair. Before his father died, he left his best friend’s daughter under his protection… Well, they were engaged from young. The girl had no family anymore either.

Fin didn’t intend to do anything with her but the spirit of beautiful ladies tempted him. Though she was at fault because she seduced him and now, she’s making his carefree life difficult. She wants a baby and he’s not intending for such a joke to happen. 1

Clicking on the send button, the laptop screen suddenly went blank.

Fin sighed. “So troublesome. You should know who you are messing with.” he took his phone and called Maverick.

“We got evidence on that witch that resides in your house. I tried sending it to you but it was intercepted by those people.”

“I’ll handle it from here,” Maverick responded before disconnecting the call.

Fin closed the laptop and lay on the couch to sleep. He was on break from work but cannot spend his time at his house. It’s not that he cannot get that girl to leave him alone but his family owes her family a huge favor, so for that, he’s tolerant of her.

The week flew by in a blink of an eye. Maverick and Jeslyn returned to the Country.

On arriving at the house she used to stay, Jeslyn found that changes had been made. Everything, from the sofa to the painting was changed to give the house a more ‘lively‘ vibe.

Jeslyn doesn’t have issues with the idea of redecorating the house but where her problem lay was- the perpetrator!

She knew Maverick wouldn’t give the order for the sitting room to be painted white. The paint on the wall before now was nude. The brown couches were replaced with white couches. The brown curtains were changed to gray curtains. The center table brown rug was replaced with fluffy white

rugs.

Although the sitting room still looks classy and luxurious, it looked boring and dead, just like Vera. 2 Maverick seemed not to care about the changes in his house. Provided the interior decor (Vera) didn’t go near his floor, then she’ll be fine. Jeslyn is the madam of the house. If she cannot handle such things, then it’s a pity. With that in mind, Maverick left Jeslyn and the maid in the sitting room and headed to his room.

“Welcome back, Madam,” Riya smiled and grabbed Jeslyn’s handbag as Jeslyn stood by the door in

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wonder.

“Thank you,” Jeslyn released the bag to her.

“Where is Vera?” Jeslyn asked. The house smells of Vera, so she didn’t need to ask to know that Vera

made the changes.

“Ms. Vera is in her room,” Riya answered.

“Ok… hope nobody changed my room and Valen’s room?” Jeslyn asked while the two were heading to

her room.

“She wanted to but I stopped her.”

“Oh, she wanted to redecorate my room because my room was an eyesore?” Jeslyn asked a rhetorical question with her lips curled.

Anger was brewing inside her and Riya could feel it. Good thing she was on Jeslyn’s boat.

Getting to her room, it was just as she left it. After surveying the room, she turned and went to Valen’s room. It wasn’t redecorated. She nodded in satisfaction before heading downstairs to look for the

butler.

“Butler Xuan, I don’t like this decoration. Call the interior decor and have them change everything back to how it used to be.”

The butler looked at her and smiled, “yes, Ma’am.”

“Also, from now on, if it’s not Chef May or I cooking what my husband eats, don’t serve it… give me the list of all the servants in the house and what they’ve been up to lately. I think there are surveillance cameras around the house, get me the videos from the time I left until now.”

“I’ll have someone send it to you in a moment.” The butler interjected.

“Good.”

The redecoration of the house didn’t take long. In no time, the house was back to how it used to be, thanks to the many workers that were brought in.

Jeslyn was in her room watching the CCTV footage. Despite spending hours doing it, she couldn’t find what she was looking for.

“Stupid me, if what I was thinking happened, would Vera leave any evidence behind?” Just when she was about to close her laptop, she saw an unfamiliar maid coming out of Vera’s room.

Jeslyn checked the rest of the footage but the lady couldn’t be found anymore.

Jeslyn called Riya into her room and showed her the maid’s picture. “Where is this maid?”

“I have no idea. I’ve never seen her before.”

“Oh, so she’s new,” Jeslyn said.

“I’m not sure. This face is a stranger’s. Unless she’s one of the guards who was disguised as a maid for

some reason.”

“That sounds about right too. You may go… wait. How deep has Vera’s influence dug into the servants and guards?”

“She appeared to be kind and generous, so all the servants except for Chef May, Butler Xuan, myself, and a handful of servants, others were very enthusiastic and treated Ms. Vera like the madam of the house… actually, some called her that.”

“Compile the names of all the servants who aren’t loyal to this household and send them packing,” Jeslyn instructed. So that Vixen was pretending to not have a choice with but compel everyone else to see her as the madam of the house, interesting.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

After she was done delegating tasks, and watching the majority of the servants leave in tears, Jeslyn went to see Maverick in his study.