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.

the other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see

out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back

black cloak over his shoulders and

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

world while he was

Pink’s number. A few rings later

is her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her erased memories?”

sigh could be heard from the other end. “They

not sure what good you

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

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

in bed as she was

of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue

her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage,

senses, he paused 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

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

they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep,

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

lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from

blurry images of last night

longer a

hurriedly searched around her and found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes but her mother was her