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.

mind, trying to see what she could find in her mind.

night, after Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use

black cloak over his shoulders and

the distance for a while before he connected some devices to

disturbance from the outside world while he

number. A few rings later the

is her next

week Sunday,”

do you know about

be heard from the other end. “They

good you mean. She’s

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everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected

turning and tossing in bed as

held her down with one hand and raised

beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly

and hurriedly started to fumble with the

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep,

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

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

blurry images of last night flashed through

was no longer a

on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be