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 to see what she could find in her

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

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over

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

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

Pink’s number. A few rings later

her

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about

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

what good you mean.

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected the

turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

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

wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until

he returned to his senses, he paused 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 too.

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

both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her;

room but her body ached so much that she screamed

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 through

no longer

it and the first person