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.

hand was focusing her mind, trying

up to use the bathroom. He already cleaned her up and took her back to

bath, Maverick drafted a black cloak over his

connected some devices to his

outside world

Maverick dialed Pink’s number. A few

is her next dose?”

Sunday,” Pink

do you know about her erased memories?”

from the other end. “They were erased for her

not sure what good you mean. She’s

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tell her everything

He disconnected the call and

tossing in bed

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

trying to escape from its cage, he handled her roughly at first until she started to shake violently.

her. However, the girl jerked up and hurriedly started to fumble with the guy’s clothes. She was doing it clumsily but she seemed to be

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

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

“Sugar plum, please!”

the ordeal, before he fell asleep,

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

and purple bruises which she believed came from how tightly the mysterious man was

believe her own eyes after the blurry images of last night flashed through her

was no longer

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