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.

trying

fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom.

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

some devices to his phone and soon,

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

connecting, Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the

her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

do you know about her erased

be heard from the other end. “They were erased

sure what good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when

He disconnected the call and headed back

turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

later, the strong man held her down with one hand

a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her

he paused before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She

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

each other. What they were giving wasn’t

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

a difficult hotel room but her body ached

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

her own eyes after the blurry images of last

was no longer a

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