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.

her mind, trying

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

black cloak over his shoulders and headed out of the room.

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

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

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

her

Sunday,” Pink answered.

about her erased

the other end. “They were erased for her

not sure what good you mean. She’s

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her everything when

might be too late.” He disconnected the call and headed back inside.

bed as she was having another nightmare.

strong man held her down with one hand and raised her

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

he paused before releasing 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

again

each other. What they were giving wasn’t enough. He was rough

“Sugar plum, please!”

he fell asleep,

difficult hotel room but her body ached so much that she screamed in agony.

hickeys and purple bruises which

after the blurry images of last night flashed through her

longer a virgin!

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