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.

the other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could find in

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

black cloak over his shoulders and headed out

before he connected some

from the outside world while he was here with

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

her

week Sunday,”

about

from the other end.

you

12:45

308

1/3

everything

too late.” He disconnected the call and headed

bed as she was

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

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

hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like the man too.

and the beast in him leashed out again and

sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

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

hickeys and purple bruises which she

after the blurry images of last night

no longer a

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