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

her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over

while before he connected some devices to

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

few rings later the call

her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink

do you know about

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

you mean.

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tell her everything when

late.” He disconnected the call

bed as she was having

it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her

trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started

to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

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

lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious

own eyes after the blurry images

longer a

lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the