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.

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

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

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the room.

for a while before he connected some devices to

relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world

Pink’s number. A few rings later

is her

Sunday,” Pink

about her erased

other end. “They were erased for

you mean. She’s

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her everything when she’s ready.”

be too late.” He disconnected the call

in bed as

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

wild beast trying to escape from its cage,

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

like that aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out 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; “Candy floss…”

a difficult hotel room but

bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man

blurry images of last night flashed through her

was no longer a virgin!

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