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

to use the bathroom. He already cleaned

a black cloak over his

some devices to his phone

didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he

dialed Pink’s number. A few

is her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink answered.

do you know about her erased

other end. “They were erased for her own

you mean. She’s asking

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everything when

be too late.” He disconnected

turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held

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

girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the

and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take her dress off

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep,

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

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

blurry images of

was no longer

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