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

he got up to use the

his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over

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

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

connecting, Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later

her next

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her erased

sigh could be heard from the other end. “They

sure what good you mean. She’s

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her everything when

be too late.” He disconnected the

in bed as

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

tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage,

releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy

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

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from

after the blurry images of

was no longer a

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