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.

mind, trying to see

asleep before he got up to

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out

before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone seemed to have a full

world while he was here with his woman, so

Pink’s number. A few rings later

her next dose?”

week Sunday,”

do you know about her

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

not sure what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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tell her everything

be too late.” He disconnected the call and

and tossing in bed as she was

later, the strong man held her

from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started

senses, he paused before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just

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

What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

in a difficult hotel room but

mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from

the blurry images of

was no longer a

and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting