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.

was focusing her mind, trying to see what she could find in her

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

a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

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

from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so

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

her next

Sunday,” Pink

know about her

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

sure what good you

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everything when she’s

He disconnected the

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

first, it was of her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one

to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she

before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed

him leashed out again and he started to

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she

and purple bruises which she

after the blurry images of last night flashed through

no longer

it and the first person she called was her