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.

was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could

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

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

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

disturbance from the outside world while he was here

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

her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about

end. “They were erased

good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when she’s

late.” He disconnected the call and headed back

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed

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

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

fumble

again and he started to take her

sad sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He

“Sugar plum, please!”

fell asleep, he called her;

but

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

her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed

longer a

on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes