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.

her mind, trying to see

fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to

black cloak over his shoulders and

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

number. A few

her next

week Sunday,”

do you know about

the other end. “They were erased for her

not sure what good you mean. She’s asking

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her everything when she’s

disconnected the call and headed back inside.

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the other.

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

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

beast in him leashed out again and he started to

both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much

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

after the blurry images of last night flashed

longer

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