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.

hand was focusing her mind, trying to see

he got up to

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the room.

distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone

disturbance from the outside world while

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

is her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her erased memories?”

the other end. “They were

not sure what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected the

turning and tossing in bed as she was

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

to escape from

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

leashed out again and he started to

each other. What they were giving

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

hotel room but her body ached so

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

the blurry images

was no longer a

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