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.

hand was focusing her mind, trying

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

black cloak over his shoulders and headed out

looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less

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

few rings

is her

week Sunday,” Pink

about her erased

the other end. “They

good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when

late.” He disconnected the

tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the other.

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

started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was

out again and he started to take her

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep, he

morning, Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but

purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her last

eyes after the blurry images of

was no longer

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