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

he got up to use the bathroom.

black cloak over

he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone

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

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings

is her next

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

do you know about her erased

other end. “They were erased for her own good.”

good you mean. She’s asking

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

disconnected the call

and tossing in bed as she

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

a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he

before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like

again and he started to take her dress

wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl liked it.

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

but

she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious

her own eyes after the blurry images of

longer

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