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.

mind, trying

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

drafted a black cloak over his

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

relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got

number. A few rings later the call

is her

Sunday,”

know about her

the other end. “They were erased for

sure what good you mean. She’s

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everything when she’s ready.”

be too late.” He disconnected the call and headed back

tossing in bed as she

was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the other.

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

jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with

like that aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take her

each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the

“Sugar plum, please!”

fell asleep,

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

could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came

the blurry images of last night

no longer a

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