“I don’t know. You know I am not specialized in cosmetics.” ra tilted her head and nced at Horace strangely, pursed her lips, and replied.


    “Well.” Horace tried his best to restrain his restless emotions. He didn’t want ra to find anything unusual. “I don’t like the smell. Could you please wash it off?”


    ra frowned, feeling that Horace’s reaction today was abnormal, but she didn’t say anything. She kept her silence and headed to the bathroom.


    After ra left, Horace pressed the center of his eyebrows with his hand. It seemed that he was lost in thought.


    ra went to the bathroom and take a shower. She looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, thinking of Horace and what he had just done to her. She could not exin her feelings right now.


    Horace had never treated her like this and had always been gentle and considerate. What happened today?


    What’s wrong with the perfume ine gave her? Why did Horace have such an unexpected reaction?


    A series of questions weighed on ra’s mind, making her feel like she was about to lose her mind. She wanted to ask Horace, but she thought that she might never get an answer.


    After washing her face with cold water, ra stopped herself from thinking nonsense. Anyway, what she should know will always be known in the end. She did not want to hurt his feelings and their rtionship by overacting.


    After leaving the bathroom, ra went to the bedroom to change into pajamas, but she didn’t see Horace when she came out.


    “Horace, where are you?” she called for him but heard no reply.


    Not being able to find Horace, ra was a little flustered and went to the balcony to take a look, and unexpectedly found that Horace was alone there, staring at the front nkly, caught up in his own thoughts.


    Looking at Horace, ra’s uneasiness also increased a little bit at the same time. She always felt that something she didn’t know was happening that would disrupt her and Horace’s current life.


    After hesitating for a while, ra stepped forward and stood in front of Horace. Holding his hand, she asked, “What happened? Your hands are so cold. You could get sick out here in the wind.”


    Horace finally pulled himself out of his thought. He looked at ra’s warm smile in front of him and said, “Nothing happened, just something tricky in thepany.”


    ra didn’t believe it. How could things in thepany make him look like this? He had always beenfortable with his work.


    “Horace, could you tell me what’s wrong? Today, you…”


    ra was interrupted by Horace before she could finish her words, “It’s really nothing. Let’s have dinner and see if your cooking skills have improved…”


    Seeing Horace regaining his previous expression, ra did not continue to ask any more questions.


    In the next few days, ra’s life returned to its previous pace. She was not a public figure after all, and the public’s attention on her soon evaporated, and she was happy about that.


    What was strange was that since thest time she saw Ashlee in the restaurant, there had not been any news about her at all in the past few days. Where had she been?


    This was so uncharacteristic of her. ording to her personality, she should havee to the office to make a scene with Darren. But ra didn’t have too much mind to think about affairs about her. She was d Ashlee was not around to cause trouble for her.


    After getting off work, ra was waiting for the car on the side of the road, when she turned around inadvertently, she met a man in the eye.


    The man hurriedly turned his head to the other side, then entered the cafe next to him.


    ra felt a little strange, as she always felt that she had seen him somewhere else. In the past few days, she had been feeling that someone was stalking her. Could the stalker be this man?


    But ra told herself not to think too much because she had no solid evidence. She did not know him at all and it was probably just a coincidence.


    At this time, her taxi arrived, and ra put aside all of that and got inside the car.


    The next day, when ra woke up, she saw that Horace had been up for a while and he was fixing his tie in front of the mirror.


    “Why did you get up so early today?” ra was a little puzzled. Horace usually got up with her and then took her to work.


    Horace found that ra was awake, so he went to the bed and sat down, and said, “The Company called me and there is something urgent today, so I need to be there earlier. I’m so sorry that I would not be able to send you to work. Do you think you can call a taxi?”


    “Just go ahead. I’ll be fine.”


    “Thank you, baby. Just take another nap.” After leaving a kiss on ra’s forehead, Horace left in a hurry.


    ra slept for another hour, got up, and went out after breakfast.


    As soon as she left her doorstep, she saw a taxi slowly driving by.


    This was a high-end residential area and taxis are rarely seen here. ra thought she was so lucky today.


    She stopped the taxi, got inside, and said, “Mister, could you please go to the subway station?”


    But as the car was driving, ra suddenly felt that something was wrong. He was not driving in the direction of the subway!


    “Could you please check if we are going in the right direction?” However, the driver didn’t answer her, just drove straight ahead.


    ra finally realized the danger at this time.Material ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    “Stop the car! Let me get off!”


    But the driver remained silent.


    ra wanted to open the car door and jump out, but the driver had thought of this so he had locked the doors and windows just as she got inside.


    ra panicked.  She leaned forward to grab the steering wheel. She did not want to be abducted like this!


    The driver impatiently took out a stick from one side and knocked ra’s head. Amidst the severe pain, rapletely lost consciousness.


    …


    When she woke up, the only thing she could feel was pain. The wound on her head seemed to have stopped bleeding, but it was still painful. At the same time, her wrists and ankles were also tied together.


    Before she could thoroughly check out the injuries on her body, ra began to look around, wondering where she was. It seemed to be a terrace of a tattered and abandoned building.


    Without thinking about why she was brought here, ra struggled to untie the rope. She needed to leave before something horrible happened to her.


    At this time, the door of the rooftop was suddenly opened. Seeing the person walking in, ra stopped struggling and shouted out in fury,


    “What do you want from me again?”