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

got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took

Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

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

didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal

dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the

is her next

Sunday,” Pink

about

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

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

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected

turning and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

first, it 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

from its cage,

hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s

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

of each other. What they were giving

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep,

but her body ached

wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came

blurry

longer

lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They