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.

mind, trying to see what she could find in her

up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to sleep.

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders

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

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

A few rings later the

her next

Sunday,”

you know about her

could be heard from the other end. “They were

good you mean.

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her everything when she’s

be too late.” He disconnected the call

and tossing in bed

later, the strong man held her down with

succeeded in tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from

the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was

out again and he started to take her dress off

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed

mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the

her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through

longer a virgin!

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