Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom
Chapter 243

243 The childhood conflict (2)

"Really? Do you have to do what Grandpa said to you? You are still very young and naive. Do you think no one would know what you are trying to achieve by being friends with the enemies? It's obvious as day, Damien and that's Why Maverick doesn't like you. Not only are you following Grandpa's plans, but you are also becoming a nuisance. You are not even as intelligent as his friends, you are the dumbest person in the class! Maverick only sees you as a stupid person and that's why he'll never like you!" 1

Those words broke Damien's heart. His Grandfather didn't tell him anything and he's not trying to befriend Maverick for any malicious reason. He genuinely likes Maverick.

He looked at Maverick, waiting for him to deny the allegations the he saw him as a nuisance. He was waiting earnestly for Maverick to push Ruben and call him a liar, but Maverick didn't. He only sneered and walked out.

Damien wanted to run after him to explain his own part but Ruben held him, preventing him from leaving. However, Damien refused to be stopped and forcefully pushed Ruben away, causing him to hit his head on the edge of the table.

Because Damien was in haste to leave, he didn't see the blood coming out of his brother's head, nor did he notice that his brother had fainted.

Outside the cafeteria, he finally stopped Maverick and explained that Ruben was lying, then he asked. Maverick what he thought about him.

"Just like your brother said, you are a nuisance, Get a life, you aren't fit to be close to me. I despise you!"

Those words pierced Damien's heart and for years, they stuck to him like glue and refused to leave.

He indeed started to take his academic studies serious and even outdid Maverick's friends, still no matter what he did, Maverick was always some steps ahead of him. He could never catch up. When Maverick's father bought him an island, an invitation for Damien to appear on the island was sent to the Yu family but at that time, Damien was already locked away, so Ruben went in place of

Damien.

When Maverick made his first kill at the school because of his little brother, Damien was triggered. If Maverick could, then he also can. With that, he bribed the informant who always brought him news in the darkroom to help him out of the room.

The plan took some months and when he finally came out by pretending to be very sick, he realized that Maverick had taken over his late father's dying company and was trying to bring it back up.

So Damien, with the anger that his family was no family to him anymore, and also for the fact that Maverick was way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that forced everyone to submit to him.

When he became the leader of his family, he held a meeting with Maverick to ask him if he was now worthy to be his friend but not only did Maverick not honor the invite, he sent a message to tell Damien that he will forever be worthless and would always be below him.

From there on, Damien started to do things out of line to prove to Maverick that he was wrong, he had always been wrong about him but Maverick kept angering him each day that passed.

To make Maverick come to him and beg him for something, Damien set the scheme to involve a woman in his life, that was when he realized that Maverick loved a young child called Rossa, he tried to search for her but failed, still, he didn't give up,

When he saw that after some years, he couldn't replace Rossa, he made his brother bring in Vera to stand as Rossa, but he changed his mind when he saw that Vera and Ruben were taking too long to appear at the hotel, SI he made his men to kidnap any girl and send her to Maverick. Who would have thought that the guards would kidnap the birthday girl who was drugged by her friends for whatever reason? So Jeslyn ended up being the one Maverick slept with.

After that, he tried to kill Jeslyn to close that plothole to his plan but realized she was too pretty to die just like that. So he started to form another scheme where she would be useful, however, Destiny played a cruel joke and she became pregnant.

How could she? How could an outsider get so entangled in his meticulous plan?

While he was trying to alter his plan to fit in Jeslyn and Vera without having to change the whole plan, he realized Jeslyn's family was weird, so he tried to dig deeper. However, the only thing he found was that Jeslyn was actually Maverick's Rossa!

It became even better when Maverick was still searching for his Rossa, that was when he built a nice chess game and started playing the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute for Rossa and watched from the side as Maverick treated Vera as if she was Rossa.

Damien snapped out of his memory when the car came to a halt. He looked around and realized they were at Maverick's mansion.

"Are you really allowing me into your home?" Damien asked, a little surprised.

Maverick glanced at him for a while. Yes, he was also asking himself what he was doing, having his wife's enemy into the house. But they were already here.

He got down without uttering a word and started to walk towards the large front door. Damien chuckled as he watched Maverick's defiant back as he walked with an air of authority, arrogance, and pride. He was the definition of a superior being.

For some reason, Damien couldn't help admiring this man who was his frenemy.

What does he feel for Maverick even after all that has happened between them? He wasn't sure. Damien couldn't put his fingers on why he doesn't see Maverick as a pure enemy. A part of him wanted that recognition and praise that he had been longing for, from Maverick. He felt that something in him will be complete if Maverick genuinely treats him like a human for once. "You should get down."

Damien heard the hard voice of one of Maverick's men and turned to his side and saw that the guard had opened the car door.

Damien got down and looked around the beautiful compound. It was night time and people were sleeping, so it was only littered with armed men and women in black. "Where is Kimberly?" He asked.

"She has been taken away for treatment. Follow me to your quarters. The guard said and started to walk towards one of the many buildings in the compound.