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.

mind, trying to see what she could find in her

to

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

for a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon,

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.

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later

her

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her

heard from the other end. “They were erased

good you

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everything when

too late.” He disconnected

in bed as she was having another

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

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

paused 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 to be desperate, just like the man

man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take her dress off before he peeled

each other. What they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her;

a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much

of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from

blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

was no longer

drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting sometimes