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 what

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

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

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

world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal tampered with.

dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the

is her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink

know about her

from the other end. “They were erased for her own

good you mean. She’s

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everything when she’s ready.”

be too late.” He disconnected

in bed as

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

trying to escape from its cage, he handled

releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s

the beast in him leashed out again and he started

of them wanted more of each other. What they

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed in agony.

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

her own eyes after the blurry images

was no longer

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