Chapter 118
Chapter 118
Right after Charlotte said that, the elevator dinged and she entered the elevator with a charming smile
on the corner of her lips.
On the other hand, Victoria pressed her lips even tighter when she looked at the thermos sk in her
hands before she trudged to the elevator.
The Spritz siblings might be unavoidable dog poo, but Christian was a ferocious hound that had almost
killed her with his bites a few times now. Even though she hated him and wanted to kill him if possible,
she was pressed under his sharp ws. She had no choice but to submit to him in order to avoid being
torn to shreds.
There were a lot of people in the hospital. An old man with a missing left arm, and had a prosthetic calf
and a face full of wrinkles lit up when he saw Victoria. He then patted the equally disabled young man
beside him and pointed in Victoria’s.
Another pair of eyes lit up then.
Supporting each other, the men limped their way to Victoria and stopped her.
When she looked up, she was greeted by two unfamiliar faces. One of the men was probably in his 60s
or 70s from the looks of his a lined face, and the other was about 30 or 40 years old. This one had
tanned skin and fine lines at the corners of his eyes.
Even though they were of different ages, they were both disabled people. Their clothes looked tidy, but
it had obviously been washed so many times the colors were slightly faded. They also had on rarely-
seen ck shoes made of clothes.
Judging from their appearance, they either looked like beggars, or fraudsters that would go, “Littledy,
I am a few dors short on travel money. Can you please lend me a few bucks?”
She took a look at the two of them again to make sure she didn’t know them. “Is there something you
need me for?” she asked.
Thump!
The men didn’t say a word, and only exchanged a brief nce before they fell to their knees. Their
actions were so conspicuous that they immediately attracted the attention of the curious crowd.
Seeing this, Victoria only knitted her eyebrows together and looked at them with emotionless eyes. She
didn’t help them up nor say a word.
“Don’t get us wrong!” The middle-aged man waved his hand at her twice when he noticed Victoria’s
reaction. He then exined in broken standard English, “We are neither beggars nor swindlers. We are
farmers who you have helped before! We wanted to thank you when we saw you!”
The older man was wiping his tears away as he listened to hispanion speak in a dialect Victoria
couldn’t really understand.
“I have never helped any farmers.” She only replied indifferently, “You got the wrong person.” She then
walked away with the sk in her arms.
The middle-aged man hurriedly helped the old man up, then together they limped to Victoria before he
blurted out, “We really are not liars. We only want to thank you since we coincidentally bumped into
you!”
His tanned face slowly became flushed under her suspicious gaze. “We came here to beborers, or in
your people’s words, construction workers. When the building copsed, it injured a few of us, and
there were also a few that died. Our employer ran off after the incident! If it wasn’t for you who sold the
birthday gifts and donated the money to us, we wouldn’t even have money for medical treatment and
prostheses! I must kowtow to you!”
He immediately tried to get to his knees again after he said that.
When Victoria heard that, she gave it a thought, and only then did she recall that she had asked Jill to
sell all the presents from her birthday banquet and donate the proceeds to the disabled.
She quickly ced the sk on the floor and bent down to help the middle-aged man up. “You don’t
have to thank me. I will be heading off. I have something to attend to.”
She didn’t take the credit for her actions, and she also didn’t stay behind to listen to the endless praises
the crowd were showering her in. She only bent forward to pick up the sk before she lined up in front
of the elevator.
“Come here, youngdy. You should change ces with me. You should stand here instead!” A robust
middle-aged woman with a loud voice swiftly pulled Victoria to the front, and she herself stood at the
back of the row. She then gave a thumbs-up to the people around her. “What a beautiful and kind-
hearted person this youngdy is!”
The crowd immediately agreed with her and started praising Victoria as well.
By the time she stepped into the elevator, she saw that the two crippled farmers were still waving at her
with all their might, and they both had smiles filled with gratitude on their faces.
Victoria, too, slowly shed a subtle, but genuine smile that reached her eyes as she looked at them.
Christian’s VIP ward was on the twelfth floor. After she reached the ward, she stood outside the door
for some time before she finally brought a hand up to knock on the door.
“Come in.” Christian’s clear voice called out from inside.
Hearing that, she looked at the door and licked her dry lips before she pushed the door open and went
in.
The man’s dark eyes shed when he saw her walk in. He then quickly kept the thing he was fiddling
with, but no matter how quickly he did that, Victoria still saw it. He was holding her jade pendant that
was supposed to be in the previous supervisor’s hand.
She pressed her lips together to suppress her hatred for him and walked to the table to put the thermos
sk on it. “Miss Charlotte has something to deal with. That is why she told me toe.”
A lot of people had been fired after yesterday’s incident. Even though she didn’t know how he was
nning to handle her, she knew that he wouldn’t just fire her, as that would be going too easy on her.
He hummed in response. He then fell silent after looking at her for a while.
It made Victoria ufortable from her head to toe as long as he was around. Lowering her head, she
stood with her back tense for more than 20 minutes until her palms were drenched in sweat. “If there is
nothing else, I will—”
“I’m hungry.” He threw her a quick nce and interrupted her before he put the jade pendant on his
neck again.
Victoria only frowned without moving any other muscle.
Seeing this, Christian propped up the bed with one hand and sat up. “Get me a bowl of soup.”
“Sure.” Victoria held back the anger that was about to burst out of her body and responded
novelxo fast updatein a low voice. She then went over to pour him some soup.
She didn’t understand how he could act so nonchnt in front of her today when he had just thrown
her naked body out in the corridor yesterday.
Distracted, she brought the bowl of soup to him, and bent her torso to give him the bowl.
However, Christian didn’t take the soup; his eyes were fixated on the red spot on her neck. As his eyes
dimmed, he touched her neck with an elegant finger. “How did you get this mark?” His voice was
slightly cold.
The cold touch on her neck sent a shiver throughout her body. Immediately, Victoria stood up straight
and tugged on her cor to cover the trace, but she didn’t say anything.
She didn’t want to exin it to Christian. In fact, she didn’t need to.
Because by the end of the day, his attitude toward her was going to be the same anyway.
“Victoria.” As Christian looked at her impassive expression, he felt as though there was a ball of cotton
soaked in water in his chest. His breathing didn’t feel any smoother even after he undid a button. “I am
asking you a question.”
Her eyshes trembled, and she looked up at him. However, she quickly lowered her head again. “Is
there a rule in the club that stiptes all the subordinates have to answer the superiors’ questions? If
not, I refuse to answer.”
His gaze on her instantly sharpened as he locked his eyes on her. “Victoria,” he warned, his voice
having gotten a little louder.
He had started unconsciously tapping on the bed with his finger.
She raised her head again, but she didn’t lower it this time. “You don’t need to speak so loudly. I have
good hearing. I can hear you. Is there anything you need me for?”
The corners of her lips had curled into a small smile.
She used to be so careful with currying his favor in the past only to no avail. The anger, repression, and
hatred she held in instantly became overwhelming joy when she saw the gloomy expression on his
face.
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