Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

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“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 see what she could find in her

after Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the

a black cloak over

for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone seemed

disturbance from the outside world while he

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

her

week Sunday,”

you know about her erased memories?”

be heard from the other end. “They were

what good you mean. She’s asking

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her everything when she’s

disconnected the call and

was turning and tossing in bed as she

the hotel room and later, the strong man held

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 guy’s clothes. She was doing

leashed out again and he started to take her dress off

they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

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

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

blurry images

no longer

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