Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

153 What happened (1)

“Nothing I’m sure… she called the man sugar plum and he called her Candy floss.” Jeslyn frowned. (1 Maverick also knitted his brows because it was getting weirder. “Do you remember what year it was, date, month, Country, and hotel?”

Jeslyn thought for a while. Before her consciousness entered the hotel, her gaze flashed past a light board with the name; “Roller Coaster hotels? In Country Y? That’s weird.” Jeslyn frowned even more with her unreliable memory.

In all her years of living in Country Y, she didn’t recall that such a hotel existed.

“It’s not,” Maverick answered with a heavy tone.

Jeslyn felt his weirdness but decided to ignore it for now. “How did you know such a hotel existed?”

“It was Rex’s. Got destroyed after an incident.”

“Oh, I guess that’s why… but as for the date, it’s-”

“7th of October..” Maverick answered instead.

“That’s right. That year should be 2014” Jeslyn replied.

Maverick remained silent after hearing that. Then a while later, he spoke but his voice was deep like he was in pain. “I’ll find it out for you.”

“Mn,”

The two stayed in each other’s arms for a long time with each of them with their own thoughts.

Maverick was thinking of why Jeslyn was having nightmares and hallucinations, plus if her condition could be distorting her dreams.

trying to see what she could find in her mind.

tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the

looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and

world while he

connecting, Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

is her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her

could be heard from the other end. “They were

not sure what good you mean.

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her everything when she’s

late.” He disconnected the

in bed as she was having

the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her

Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started to

However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just

out again and he started to take her dress off before

of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl

“Sugar plum, please!”

fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

a difficult hotel room but her body ached

wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how

blurry images of last night flashed through her

no longer

and found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes but her mother was her