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 see what

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

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

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

relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got

number. A few rings later the call was answered.

her next

Sunday,”

you know about her erased

from the other end. “They

good you mean.

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her everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected the call and headed back inside.

tossing in bed as

the strong man held her down

to escape from

girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

but her body ached so much that she screamed

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 last

blurry images

no longer

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