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

night, after Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over

some devices to

made this Island for relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

her

week Sunday,”

about her erased memories?”

heard from the other end. “They

what good you mean. She’s

12:45

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tell her everything

might be too late.” He disconnected the

turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand

from its cage, he

hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like the man too.

the beast in him leashed out again

sad sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep, he

a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed in

which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious

couldn’t believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

no longer a

and the first person she called was her mother. They might be