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.

focusing her mind, trying to see

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

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less

world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal tampered with.

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

her next dose?”

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

do you know about her

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

what good you mean.

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everything

be too late.” He disconnected the call

was turning and tossing in bed as she was having another

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

in tearing off her undies. Like a wild beast trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly

up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She

him leashed out again and he started to take her dress off before

they were

“Sugar plum, please!”

before he fell asleep, he called her;

but her body ached

which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her last night.

after the blurry images of last

was no longer a virgin!

phone lying on top of the drawer. She took it and the first person she called was her mother. They might be fighting