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.

on the other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see

before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned

a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

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

relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he

number. A few rings later the call was

is her next dose?”

week Sunday,”

about her erased memories?”

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

what good you mean. She’s

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her everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call and headed back

bed as she was having another nightmare.

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

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

her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily

leashed out again and he started to take her dress off before he

each other. What they

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he

a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed in

lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came

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

was no longer a virgin!

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