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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying to

Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her

black cloak over

the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and

any disturbance from the outside world while he

number. A few rings later the call

her next dose?”

week Sunday,”

do you know about her erased

be heard from the other end. “They were

sure what good you mean.

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everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected

bed as she was having

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.

wild beast trying to escape from its

the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like the

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

of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough.

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he

next morning, Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached

which

her own eyes after the blurry images of

no longer a

She took it and the first person she called was her mother.