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.

her mind, trying to see what she could find in her mind.

watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders

connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone

any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal tampered with.

dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the

her

week Sunday,”

you know about her

could be heard from the other end. “They were erased for her

what good you

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tell her everything

He disconnected the call

bed

first, it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her

escape from its cage, he handled

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

leashed out again and he started

each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little

“Sugar plum, please!”

fell asleep, he

a difficult hotel room but her body

and purple bruises which she believed came

after the blurry images of last

no longer a virgin!

found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes but her mother was