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.

her mind, trying

Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to sleep.

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

connected some devices to

the outside world while he was here

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

her next

Sunday,” Pink

know about her

end. “They were erased for her own

not sure what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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tell her everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call and

bed as she was having another nightmare.

entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress

undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from

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

beast in him leashed out again and he

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep,

room but her body ached so much that

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

eyes after the blurry images

no longer a virgin!

it and the