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

after Maverick tired Jeslyn out, he watched her fall asleep before he got up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to bed to sleep.

drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

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

from the outside world while he was here

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few rings later the call

her

week Sunday,” Pink answered.

know about her erased memories?”

be heard from the other end. “They were

not sure what good you

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her everything when she’s ready.”

disconnected the

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 the other.

a wild beast trying to escape from its

to fumble

aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and he started to take

them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little girl

“Sugar plum, please!”

asleep, he called her; “Candy floss…”

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

the wall mirror facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was holding her

after the blurry images of

no longer

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