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

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

over his shoulders and headed out of the

for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon,

any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the

A few rings later the call was answered.

her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about her erased memories?”

the other end. “They were erased for

good you

12:45

308

1/3

her everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected the call

tossing in bed

room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the

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

girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily

the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take her dress off before he peeled his off.

What they were giving wasn’t enough. He

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy

hotel room but her body ached so much that

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

own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her

was no longer a virgin!

top of the drawer. She took it and the first person