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 she

got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her

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

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

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

dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later

her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

do you know about

be heard from the other end. “They

good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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her everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected the call and headed

bed as she was having another nightmare.

the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her

trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started to shake

fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be desperate, just like the man too.

and the beast in him leashed out again and

they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

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

which she believed came from how tightly the

own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed

no longer

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.