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.

her mind, trying to see what she could find in her mind.

to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed

some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone seemed

any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal tampered with.

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the call

her next dose?”

week Sunday,”

you know about her

heard from the other end. “They were erased for her own good.”

not sure what good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when she’s

disconnected the call and headed

in bed as she was having

later, the strong man held her down

beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled

returned to his senses, he paused before releasing her. 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

the beast in him leashed out again and

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called

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

wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her last night.

believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed

longer a

lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she