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 what she could find

to use the bathroom. He

cloak over his shoulders and headed

before he connected some

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

is her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

you know about

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

what good you mean.

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tell her everything

He disconnected the call

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having

man held her down with one hand and

Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly

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 be desperate, just like

and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he

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

could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was

after the blurry images

was no longer

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 mother was