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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying

Maverick tired 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

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

by the railing, he looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone seemed to

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

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her erased

could be heard from the other end.

not sure what good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when she’s

disconnected the call

tossing in bed as

man held her down with one hand

Like a wild beast trying to escape from

her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s

her like that aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started

they were giving wasn’t enough.

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

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

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

believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last

was no longer a

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