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 her

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

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his

he connected some devices to his phone

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

number. A few rings later the

her next dose?”

Sunday,”

do you know about her erased memories?”

the other end. “They were erased for her own good.”

what good you

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tell her everything when she’s

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

in bed as she was having another

and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and

to escape from its cage,

fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate,

man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take

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…”

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

purple bruises which she

the blurry images of last night flashed

was no longer

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