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.

the other hand was focusing her mind, trying to see

got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned

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

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

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

Pink’s number. A few rings

her

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about her erased

from the other end. “They were

good you mean.

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her everything when she’s ready.”

late.” He disconnected the call and headed

and tossing in bed as she

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

trying to escape from its cage,

to his senses, he paused before releasing 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,

leashed out again

them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her;

difficult hotel room but her body

see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she

couldn’t believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last

no longer

her phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was