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

to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to sleep.

a black cloak over his shoulders and headed

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

didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while

connecting, Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

her

Sunday,” Pink

know about her

could be heard from the other end. “They were erased for her

good you mean.

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected the call

and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy

Like a wild beast trying to escape from

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

like that aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

up in a difficult hotel room but her

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

her own eyes after the blurry images of last

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 but