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.

was focusing her mind, trying to see what she

asleep before he got up to

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 and soon, the signal–less

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

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the

her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her erased

from the other end. “They were erased for

what good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected the call

bed as she was

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 the other.

escape from its cage, he handled her

the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed

the beast in him leashed out again

What they were giving wasn’t

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached

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

eyes after the blurry images of last night

no longer

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