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 what she could find in her

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

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out

by the railing, he looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone

from the outside world while he was

dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the call was

her

Sunday,”

know about her erased

from the other end. “They were erased for

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

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everything when

be too late.” He disconnected the

tossing in bed as

her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held

beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started

started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she

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

they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

but her body ached so much

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

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

was no longer

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