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 see what she could find in her

he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned

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

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

the outside world while he was here

A few rings later the call was

is her next dose?”

Sunday,”

about her erased memories?”

be heard from the other end. “They were erased for her own

good you mean. She’s asking

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her everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected the

tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with

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

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

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

of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep, he called

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

lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly

the blurry images

no longer a virgin!

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