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.

focusing her mind, trying to see what she could

her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already

cloak over his shoulders and headed

railing, he looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his

made this Island for relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was

number. A few rings later

her

Sunday,” Pink

you know about

other end. “They were erased for her own

good you mean. She’s

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everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected the call

tossing in bed as she was having

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

a wild beast trying to escape from its

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 like the man

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her;

difficult hotel room but

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her

blurry images of last night flashed

was no longer

took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes but her mother was her