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.

mind, trying to see what she

to use the

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over

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

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

few

her

Sunday,”

about her

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

you mean. She’s asking

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everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected the call and headed

and tossing in bed

held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue

escape from

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

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

of them wanted more of each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called

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

purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding

couldn’t believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

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