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

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

over his shoulders and

distance for a while before he connected some devices to

world while he was

A few rings later the call was

her

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about her erased memories?”

from the other end. “They were erased for her

what good you mean. She’s asking questions.”

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everything

disconnected the call

and tossing in bed as she was having another nightmare.

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

escape from

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

like that aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

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

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

couldn’t believe her own eyes after the blurry images of

no longer

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 her