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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying to

after 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 back to bed to

over

he connected some devices

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

connecting, Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later

is her

Sunday,” Pink

you know about her

other end. “They were erased for her own good.”

you mean. She’s asking

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tell her everything when she’s

be too late.” He disconnected the call

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed as she

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

succeeded in tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at

senses, he paused before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with

out again and he started to take her dress off before he peeled his

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

fell asleep, he called her;

Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which

couldn’t believe her own eyes after the blurry images of

longer

and the