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 to see what she could find in her mind.

to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her

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

connected some devices to his phone and

the outside world

A few

is her next dose?”

week Sunday,”

you know about her erased

the other end. “They were erased for her own

sure what good you mean. She’s asking

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everything when

might be too late.” He disconnected the call and

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed as she was having

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

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

her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but

beast in him leashed out again and he started to take her dress off before he peeled his off.

them wanted more of each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

hotel room but her body ached so much

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she

her own eyes after the blurry images

no longer a

around her and found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she