Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

Chapter 290

290 Maverick’s plans for Damien

“Channeling the anger you feel for your mother to your sister is a sign of weakness and my son isn’t supposed to have such an unreasonable weakling as an uncle!” 1

Jeslyn’s voice sounded from Maverick’s phone.

Rex was startled, he immediately hurried towards his brother and grabbed the phone from him, and started. He looked at the caller ID before talking pitifully.

“Sister–in–law, you all are bullying me emotionally! That girl has done a lot to me from the day she was born. She schemed against me countless times and also got me in trouble multiple times. I am aggrieved!” he lamented.

“The brother–in–law I know must have sought his revenge by now… Piper must have eaten a lot of losses from you, so you both are even…” Jeslyn said.

“Hehe, of course. I won’t be Rex if I don’t teach her a life lesson.” Rex chuckled, remembering what he did to Piper in return.

Jeslyn continued, “Do you know the feeling of protecting a sibling? What about the feeling of being a prince saving the damsel in distress? You don’t, right?”

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Rex sighed, this sister–in–law of his has too mubbish in that small head of hers. Of course, he has saved some damsels in distress and knows how it feels to be the hero in their hearts, but as she said, he has never saved a sibling before. He’s the only one getting his ass saved by Maverick all the time.

Her voice came again;

“Here’s the thing, why don’t you steal Piper’s heart and let her be consumed by guilt instead?”

A smile ran unto Rex’s lips. That’s a good idea! Why didn’t he think about that?

Saving Piper who also hates him as much as he hates her would mean that she’ll feel guilty for everything she had done to him in the past. Also, it would make her feel inferior to him. Hahahaha… so he thought.

Rex cleared his throat. Like he was being forced, he said begrudgingly, “On the condition that you’ll come home and cook me something delicious.” Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

“Deal,” Jeslyn responded.

Rex ended the call and laughed out loud, then he raised his nose in the air with so much pride and arrogance that he missed the demi devil who just walked in through the door, wearing his school

uniform.

“When did you make my mum your cook?”

Valen’s voice startled Rex and he jumped in fright. He patted his chest and yelled, “Do you want to give me a heart attack?!”

“How is it my fault that your heart is weak?” Valen rolled his eyes and snorted.

Rex took a deep breath, then looked from Maverick to Valen a couple of times before he turned and

matched out without dropping Maverick’s phone.

“Aren’t you giving the phone back?” Damien asked with a smile. He had been laughing since.

“No, if he needs it, let him come for it.” he stormed out after that.

“Hahahaha…” Damien laughed. “Chaos, what are you going to do now without your phone? Your brother thinks you’ll be phoneless for some days. Hahahaha…”

Who cares if their phones go missing or abandoned? They all have backup phones, so what Rex did was no way at all to punish Maverick.

Rex knows that too but he just wanted to collect the phone and add it to his collection of things he had taken from Maverick.

Valen gazed at his uncle’s back as he was walking away with pride. He shook his head and sighed before heading upstairs with his backpack.

“Dad, neighbor Damien,” he greeted while going up the stairs. 2

“You bad child, you should call me uncle!” Damien yelled. He had told this little child time and time again to stop calling him neighbor, but still…. 3

“Freeloader Damien, when are you leaving?” Valen threw the question nonchalantly without stopping or looking back as he climbed the stairs with one hand in his pocket and the other hand holding the strap of his school bag. 2

“Pttf! Cough! Cough!”

Damien choked on his drink and the guards standing around tried to stop themselves from laughing out loud. 1

Before Damien could talk, Maverick butted in, “Kimberly will be discharged soon…”

Damien’s eyes widened and sharply turned to stare at Maverick, “Re- really?!” his lips quivered.

How long has it been that this demon didn’t allow him to see Kimberly for once? He has missed her so much that he no longer feels whole.

Now that she’ll be discharged, he can take her away. He smiled but before the smile could stretch to fill his face, Maverick killed it.

“She can’t be with you,” he said nonchalantly.

Damien almost puked blood. Among all the people in this world, why did he fall in love with Maverick’s sister?

Yes, Damien found out from Rex that Kimberly was their half–sister and ever since, he had been sitting on pins, knowing that Maverick wouldn’t make things easy for him.

Worst of all, Maverick took the chip from him for nothing! Since Kimberly was Maverick’s sister, undoubtedly, he would have saved her without Damien having to do or pay anything. Too bad he fell into Maverick’s plot.

“Chaos, please cut me some slack. I’ve suffered enough, haven’t I?”

Maverick shook his head, “my wife had worse,” he uttered.

Damien sighed, “I didn’t cause all her suffering, her sister did,” he opposed.

“Doesn’t matter,” Maverick side–eyed him.

“Fine, what do you want?”

“Clean your house,” Maverick instructed.

Maverick wanted him to clear the path before Kimberly went into his house. His sister, born from his loving father, must not suffer more than she already did. Although he feels nothing for her, he knew that his father would have treated her with love if he knew her existence.

“That’s fine,” Damien wanted to wait a little longer to get his arrangement in place before appearing in public but now, he seems to have no choice.

Damien had no idea that one of the punishments Maverick planned for him was to enter a battle with Emilee without getting ready.

With that, he’ll lose more, so that by the time Maverick is done with him, Damien’s family would be pushed out of the rank of the three greatest families.