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.

on the other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could find

to

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his

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

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

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

is her next

Sunday,” Pink

know about her

from the other end. “They were erased for her

you mean.

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her everything when

disconnected the call and

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having

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

from its cage, he handled her roughly at

to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to

aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy

but her

purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious

her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed

was no longer

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