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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying

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

a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the room.

distance for a while before he connected some devices to

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

Pink’s number. A few

is her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink

about

other end. “They were

what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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tell her everything when she’s

late.” He disconnected the

turning and tossing in bed as she was having

entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with

escape from its cage, he handled her roughly

before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes.

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

hotel room but her body ached so

mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man

eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

no longer

of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called