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 what she could find

her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his

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

made this Island for relaxation. He didn’t 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 later the call

her

Sunday,” Pink

you know about her erased memories?”

be heard from the other end. “They were

you mean.

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her everything when she’s ready.”

He disconnected the call

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed

her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held

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

hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was

the man and the beast in him leashed out again and

sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her;

Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but

hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious

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

no longer a virgin!

took it and the first person she called was her mother. They