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

Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the room.

he looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone seemed to have

for relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while

A few rings later

her next dose?”

Sunday,”

you know about her

end. “They were erased for her

not sure what good you

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected

in bed

her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with

tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started to shake violently.

started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just

the beast in him leashed out again and he started to

sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he

hotel room but her

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

blurry images of last night flashed

no longer

around 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 but her mother was her