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

to

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

before he connected some devices to his phone and soon,

outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

her

week Sunday,”

know about her erased

be heard from the other end. “They were

good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected the call

and tossing in bed as she was having

held her down with

in tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her

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

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy

next morning, Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she

hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from

blurry

longer a

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