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.

focusing her mind, trying to see

to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to sleep.

Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed

connected some devices to his phone and soon, the

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

A few

is her next dose?”

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be heard from the other end. “They were

what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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her everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call

turning and tossing in bed as she

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 other.

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

her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called

difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed

and purple bruises which she believed came from

believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her

no longer a

and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes but her mother was her