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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could find in

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

cloak over

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

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

number. A few

is her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her

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

what good you mean. She’s

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her everything

be too late.” He disconnected the call and headed back inside.

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress

undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she

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

again

other. What they

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called

Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her last night.

blurry images of last night flashed through

no longer a

top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called