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 in her mind.

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

a black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of

a while before he connected some devices to his phone and soon, the signal–less

any disturbance from the outside world while he was here with his woman, so he got the signal tampered with.

Pink’s number. A few

her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink answered.

you know about her

be heard from the other end. “They

you mean.

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everything when she’s

too late.” He disconnected the call

bed

the strong man held her down with

from its cage, he handled her

paused before releasing her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She

out again and he started to take her

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

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

woke up in a difficult hotel room but her body ached

facing her, she could see lots of hickeys and purple bruises which she believed

blurry images of last night flashed through her

longer a

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