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

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

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his shoulders and

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

from the outside world while he was here with

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

is her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink

you know about

heard from the other end. “They were erased for

sure what good you

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everything when

late.” He disconnected the call and headed back

tossing in bed as

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

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

hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing

aroused the man and the beast in him leashed out again and

in sad sweetness, both of them wanted more of each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough and the little

“Sugar plum, please!”

ordeal, before he fell asleep, he called her;

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her

bruises which she believed came from

eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her mind.

was 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