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.

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

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

cloak over his shoulders and

looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to

the outside world while he was here with his woman, so

A few rings later the

her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about her

sigh could be heard from the other end. “They were

good you mean.

12:45

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everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed as she was

entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and

a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until

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

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

they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached

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

blurry images of last night

no longer a

it and the