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.

trying to see

after Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed

before he connected some devices to his phone and soon,

disturbance from the outside world while

A few rings later the call was answered.

is her

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her

heard from the other end. “They were erased

not sure what good you mean. She’s

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everything when she’s ready.”

might be too late.” He disconnected the

and tossing in bed as she was having

held her down with one

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

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

man and the beast in him leashed out again and

each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called

hotel room but her body ached so much that

bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man

blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

was no longer a virgin!

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