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.

focusing her mind, trying to see what she could

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

taking his bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the

some devices to

He didn’t want any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the call was answered.

her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her erased

could be heard from the other end. “They were erased for her own

you mean. She’s asking

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her everything when she’s

might be too late.” He disconnected the call

and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held

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

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

and the beast in him leashed out again and he started

other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl liked

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep, he

next morning, Jeslyn woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached

she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came

eyes after the blurry

was no longer

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 might be fighting sometimes but her