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

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

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

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 to

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

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the call

is her

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

you know about her erased memories?”

the other end. “They were erased

what good you

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected the

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with

undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started to shake

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

the man and the beast in him leashed out again and

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

difficult hotel room but her

wall 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

blurry images of last night

longer a

searched around her and found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the