Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 63

63 Snow Moon cakes

Valen pushed against Jeslyn after a few moments of freezing.

Feeling his struggle, Jeslyn broke the hug only to see Valen’s face reddened with fury.

He pointed his left index finger at Jeslyn. The finger was trembling, and so was his whole body.

“Y-you, you-” Valen wanted to use abusive words but they got stuck in his throat when he saw Jeslyn’s beautiful face looking at him with confusion.

Valen gritted his teeth, glared at Jeslyn, turned around, and stormed off.

Jeslyn watched as the boy left the room and slammed the door with all the strength his left hand could summon.

Jeslyn turned to look at Maverick, but he had his head down, writing.

“Your son… is he mad at me?” She asked.

“Hmm,” Maverick responded without raising his head.

“Did I do anything wrong?” Jeslyn queried in a small voice.

Maverick raised his head to look at her. Seeing how meekly she was staring back at him, he slowly

nodded.

“Wh- what did I do?” Jeslyn looked flabbergasted. She didn’t remember doing anything wrong just

now.

“He hates hugs, especially from women,” he replied before going back to what he was writing. Jeslyn panicked, “then, then what should I do to make amends?”

Maverick stayed silent for a while. None of them had ever consoled Valen before, so he couldn’t help

her.

Jeslyn sighed and sat back on the couch feeling dejected.

“You behave like a child yourself, what makes you happy when upset?” Maverick threw the question with his eyes on his writing. 1

“My face,” she giggled.

Maverick raised his head to look at the face. Truly, she was one of the prettiest he had ever seen. He subconsciously compared Jeslyn’s face to the face in his memory. The other girl had a round face with blue eyes. Jeslyn’s face is what they called the ‘V-shaped face, accompanied by hazel eyes. 2 Both girls didn’t look identical at all, however…

Maverick snapped out of his reverie to see Jeslyn touching her face.

“I look pretty, right?” She asked with puppy eyes.

Maverick lowered his head to his work. “Not bad,” he stated.

Jeslyn grinned ear to ear before she got up and was about to leave but paused in her steps.

“Ah, Mr. Maverick, I heard from Riya that Valen is not allowed to eat sugary food, uncooked food, and a lot more. However, is he allowed to eat baked food? Like, cookies, treats, and all?”

“Not in large quantities…”

“Ok, thank you,” Jeslyn said excitedly and rushed towards the door, then she heard him say,

“Once a week.”

“Oh, it’s still manageable.” Jeslyn left the study and hurried away.

Meanwhile, Maverick got up with a bulge in his trousers. He touched it and narrowed his eyes at the door.

When was the last time he felt like a man? That was 6 years ago.

After what happened, Maverick’s body stopped reacting. Even when he wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t feel the bulge.

Though he checked with different doctors, they confirmed he was fine.

Maverick went to the room and headed to the bathroom.

Inside the kitchen, Jeslyn was stopped by a lady with a cold face. The lady wouldn’t allow her to do what she wanted.

“Let me through,” Jeslyn said.

“I’m sorry Miss, you can’t enter the kitchen. Whatever you want, I’ll prepare it for you.”

“First of all, I’m your Madam. Secondly, what I want is something I alone can do, so get away.” Jeslyn slightly pushed the lady away.

The lady wearing a white gown and a chef cap bowed. “I’m sorry I forgot, Ma’am.”

Jeslyn didn’t care about her anymore. She didn’t want to know if the chef’s apology was real or not. But one thing she knew was that whoever tries to get in between what he wants to achieve will suffer. “Riya, help me get the glutinous rice flour, groundnut oil, rice syrup, mooncake, or biscuit mold…”Jeslyn turned to look at the chef.

“Do you have those things I mentioned in the kitchen?”

The chef nodded.

“Including fillings?” Jeslyn asked again.

“Which of the fillings do you ask for, ma’am?” The Chef asked.

Jeslyn remembered that Valen liked eggs, so she waved her hand, “Don’t worry, I’ll use egg yolks and date paste… Do you have date paste?”

It was better she use what she saw Valen eat than use ingredients she doesn’t know if he is allergic to. “The kitchen still has little date paste, but I’m not sure what you want to make, so I don’t know if the one we have will be enough.” The Chef replied.

“I’m making snow mooncakes. Bring out the date paste let me see.” Jeslyn said and the Chef went to

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get a container with date paste in it.

Jeslyn nodded. “This should be more than enough. Riya, get the other ingredients.”

Riya bowed and started to get the ingredients ready for whatever Jeslyn wanted to do.

Snow Mooncake, as Jeslyn called it, is not a thing in Country M which was why Riya felt odd.

However, to Chef May who was one of Country V’s great chefs, she had heard of Snow Mooncake and had seen pictures of it but never cared to learn about it.

The household she works for doesn’t eat such treats, so what was the use?

Chef May walked to the cupboard where she placed those molds and brought out four different molds in different shapes and patterns.

Looking at the molds, a bitter smile crept onto her lips as her mind flashed back to the bad memories she had of these molds. This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Chef May remembered the first time she came into this house. Seeing the two-year-old Valen, she was so excited that she ordered mooncake molds to make cute-looking biscuits for the child.

Chef May made those biscuits out of love and happily gave them to Valen who looked excited after seeing the different shapes

However, before the child could taste them, Nanny Mulan rushed out of nowhere and swept the plate of biscuits off the table before she gave Chef May a deafening slap on her ear.