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

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

black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the

the distance for a while before he connected some devices to his

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

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

her

Sunday,”

do you know about

from the other end. “They were

sure what good you mean. She’s

12:45

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tell her everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the

Jeslyn was turning and tossing in bed as she

her entering the hotel room and later, the strong man held her down with one hand and raised her heavy blue dress with the

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

However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with

leashed out again and he started to take

of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he

in a difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed in agony.

her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how

blurry images of last night

no longer a virgin!

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