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.

other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could find in

tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less phone

He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his

few rings

is her next dose?”

Sunday,”

do you know about her erased memories?”

the other end. “They were erased

good you mean. She’s

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her everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

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

to escape from its cage,

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

him leashed out again and he started to take

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he

but her

mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was

eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed

was no longer a

searched around her and found her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and