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

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

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

by the railing, he looked into the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the

for relaxation. He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he

A few rings later

is her next dose?”

Sunday,”

know about her erased

from the other end. “They

not sure what good you mean.

12:45

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everything when

too late.” He disconnected the call

tossing in bed as she

man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the other.

trying to escape from its cage, he handled

and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She

again and he started to take her dress off before

in sad sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

next morning, Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but

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

after the blurry images of

was no longer a

took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes