Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom
Chapter 40

40 Trouble rearing it's head

"Good morning, ma'am," two servant girls cleaning the stair railing greeted Jeslyn with forced voices.

It was obvious they didn't like her and the malds weren't making an attempt to hide it.

"Good morning," Jeslyn responded while walking down the stairs.

She chooses to ignore them, after all, it has nothing to do with her. It's their right to hate or like her.

A few steps ahead, Jeslyn heard the maids behind her talking in hushed voices.

What could they be talking about if not gossip about her? And Jeslyn wasn't a fan of such, so she turned around, and with a cold voice, she spoke.

"You two, go get your payment and leave."

The girls looked at her like she was a joke and ignored her to continue working.

Seeing this, Jeslyn chuckled for a while before she started taking small steps towards them while saying:

"You know, at a workplace, you ought to be careful with your tongue and also how you treat people. It's fine to gossip, but it's disrespectful when you let whoever you are gossiping about hear it.

I was nice enough to tell you both to leave with your pay, but not anymore. Go get your bags and leave... Without a dime!

If you make me repeat myself, then you'll be thrown out of this house without your bags." She smiled at the two girls who had their eyes enlarged in shock.

"Wow, this is the first time I have seen a guest issuing orders in a house that isn't theirs. Young lady, who do you think you are to lay off Mr. Maverick's workers?"

A feminine voice tinged with laughter, sounded from behind Jeslyn followed by the clicking sound of heels stepping on the smooth and sparking floor.

"Good morning, Ma'am!" The two servants greeted with cheerful voices.

Jeslyn didn't bother to turn around and patiently waited for the intruder to walk around her and come to stand beside the servants.

"Morning. You two, continue your work and go downstairs if you are done." The new lady gave the instruction to the two maids while looking at Jeslyn with a condescending stare. "Yes, ma'am!" The maids answered and were about to leave when they heard...

"I dare you to take a step from here."

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Jeslyn's voice sounded almost like their master's. Sending chills down their hearts. The girls subconsciously stood rooted to the spot. Not daring to move.

Jeslyn folded her arms on her chest with her eyes on the pretty lady in front of her.

She assessed the lady in front of her for a while before asking: "And... who might you be?" Jeslyn said, raising a brow at the lady.

"Ha, you don't even seem to know me, so what right do you have to lay anyone off?"

Jeslyn sighed... "You also don't seem to know me, which means you are irrelevant in this house, so what right do you also have to stop me from sending disrespectful workers off?" Hearing that she was irrelevant, the lady narrowed her scorching gaze at Jeslyn. "Who told you I'm irrelevant?"

"Who told you I'm a guest?" Seeing the lady knitting her brows, Jeslyn curled her lips.

"Everyone knows that you are a guest." She said after composing herself. Her brows were only knitted for a flitting moment.

"Hmm..." Jeslyn nodded. "It means those people are not important, just like you." Jeslyn turned to look at the two servants that had a confused and terrified look on their faces.

She doesn't care or want to know why they looked so frightened. But one thing she was determined to do was to get these two maids fired.

No one has ever disrespected her and gone away with it and these girls certainly won't be the first... not in a country like this anyway.

Showing these unrepentant girls mercy would mean she's weak and this peacock who just arrived, throwing her weight around would replace a spot to bully her in the future.

The Lu brothers have no sisters and from the information released to the public, the Lu brothers shut the doors to their other family members, which means, a cousin cannot appear in this house. So the identity

of this lady standing beside her might either be a family friend, or a high-ranked worker for the Lu brothers because she's dressed like an elegant secretary.

"You two..." Jeslyn touched the space between her brow. It seemed like she was considering something, then she continued. “...I have said it the third time, I think, and I won't repeat myself." "Riya!"

Jeslyn called the servant whom she saw walking around the sitting room with a white napkin.

At first Maya didn't answer, but a few seconds later, her brain jolted and she stared up at the staircase. "Ma'am, you called me?" She asked.

"Hmm, get the security."

"Oh?... ok, ma'am." Maya walked towards the telephone.

Looking at Jeslyn, the lady in a red pencil skirt, wearing a white shirt that was opened to expose her fine cleavage with face caked in nice makeup and hair done into a ponytail, glared at Jeslyn. This was no longer a matter of laying workers off, after all, she was never the type to care about who eats and who doesn't.

Seeing such a beautiful lady in Maverick's house turned her brain and she automatically labeled her an enemy. So when she heard what she was telling the servants, she took the opportunity to invoke dominance, an image to be feared and respected, just like every servant in the house fears and respects her, but who would have thought this pretty face in front of her was a stubborn one?

"Young lady, I think you-"

"Young ma'am, stop addressing me like a mum would address their naughty daughter. If at all you are older than me, it shouldn't be a difference of three years, so, what's up with that tone?" Jeslyn glared at the lady...no, she was already glaring.