Chapter 232


    When Channing was hack, Ste wasughing and chatting with Sherry. Her smile frozen immediately


    as she turned around to find his clothes were dirty and there were bruises on his face. She strode to


    him and frowned, “Chan, what happened to you?”


    Channing tilted his head, “Nothing. Only minor injuries. It doesn’t matter.”


    “It matters. You didn’t look like this way when you left. Tell me the truth. Where have you been?”


    Sherry came to join Ste, “Right, Chan, what happened to you? Come on.”


    Ste’s frown grew deeper and she felt something bad happened, “Did you ….”


    Channing said in a calm voice, “I just had a fight with my ssmates. It’s not serious as you think.”


    “Why did you fight with your ssmates?”


    Channing seemed not want to talk about it, “Just a fight, no reasons.”


    Ste didn’t believe him and tried to say something, but Sherry stopped her, “It’s fine. Fight ismon


    between young men. You don’t worry. He is a grownup and he knows what he is doing.”


    Sherry touched Channing as she said, “Don’t stand here. Go and have your injuries treated, or they will


    be inmed.”


    “Ok.”


    Channing turned and entered the back staff room.


    Sherry touch Ste with her elbow, “You are still worried?”


    Ste shook her head, “I think Chan didn’t tell the truth.”


    Channing was not an impulsive person who would fight with ssmates out of small conflicts.


    And when he left the studio, his expression showed that he was going to do something important.


    Sherry exined, “Chan didn’t tell you the truth because he don’t want you to worry you. Hee back


    safe and sound, so everything is alright.”


    Ste breathed a sigh of relief, “I hope so.”


    After a while, the staff room was opened.


    Channing was sterilizing his wounds with a swab. He put down the sab when he saw Ste showed up


    at the door, “I really fine.”


    Ste came to sit beside the sofa and took a band-aid to cover his wound, “Fighting with ssmates is


    big deal. Why don’t you exin it?”


    Channing pressed his lips in silence.


    “You do this once and once only.”


    “Got it.”


    Ste added, “I’ll leave for Aqock tomorrow night. I’ll be back in two or three days. You’d better find a


    new house and move out from Daniel’s house.”


    Channing understood what Ste mean. He was quiet for a while and then said, “I don’t think he did it


    on purpose.”


    “Whatever. It is past and it’s meaningless to keep talking about it. I simply think you should keep


    staying at his house and bothering him. What’s more, as you can see, nothing happened to my ce


    recently.”


    Channing nodded, “I’ll move tomorrow.”


    Ste got up, “Find a new house first. I’ll transfer the money ….”


    Channing interrupted her and said in a serious voice, “I got money.”


    Ste smiled, “Fine, I’ll leave it to you.”


    When she was about to leave, Channing asked abruptly, “How’s it going between you and Emmett?”


    “What?”


    “You said you wanted to give it a try, so how’s it going now?”


    Ste paused for a few seconds and then answered, “You are right. I don’t like him, so it’s meaningless


    to try it.”


    “Then ….” Channing touched his neck and looked away awkwardly, “Will you marry rence again?”


    Ste seemed haven’t expected that he would ask that suddenly. She stood there astonished for


    seconds and didn’t know what to say.


    Looking at Ste’s reaction, Channing coughed, “I feel that he is not as annoying as before. If you …


    still like him, I have no objection.”


    Hearing that, Ste couldn’t helpughing out loud, “Didn’t you drive him awayst time? Why do you


    change your mind?”


    Channing defended himself, “I didn’t drive him away. I just asked him to have a good think and don’t


    hurt your anymore ….”


    Ste said, “Fine, don’t bother it. There’s no work in the studio today. Let’s have a meal.”


    Ste stopped at the door and turned to Channing in a sudden, “Shall we invite Winnie to join us?”


    Channing was confused for a second and then asked, “She is your friend. Why asking me?”


    Ste tried to suppress her smile, “Nothing, I’m just asking. She has been hiding overseas because of


    your affair. I’m wondering if shees back. I want to apologize and thank her in person. How do you


    think?”


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    “….” Channing looked away from her face, cleared his throat, pressed his lips and then said, “You are


    right.”


    “Then I’ll ask if she is back.”


    Ste raised one of her eyebrows and then left the staff room.


    She texted Winnie while walked away.


    As a matter of fact, Winnie didn’t go overseas. The evil and merciless capitalist rence only gave her


    two days off and then got her a tight schedule.


    When she got Ste’s message, she was shooting amercial. Toplete her lie, Winnie had no


    choice but tell Ste that she just got off the ne in Hawaii.


    Ste texted, “Ok, see you when you are back.”


    Winnie agreed with tears in her eyes.


    …


    At 11:30 pm, the nended at the Aqock Airport on time.


    The temperature of Aqock seemed always to be lower than that of City N. As soon as she got off the


    ne, Ste was met by freezing air.


    She zipped her down jacket up to her chin and put on the hat. When she was about to walk into the


    hall, she saw a group of bodyguards walking out from the hall with a woman at the center. The woman


    was covered from toe to head. Even her eyes couldn’t be seen.


    They looked strange and nervous.


    Ste got a hit when they passed by her.


    Ste looked at the group in confusion.


    A few minutester, Ste walked out from the washing room. Before long, she heard a familiar female


    voiceing from a corner, “What the hell! Have you got everything arranged? How long are you going


    to keep me waiting?”


    “Miss Conrad, please be patient. We are doing this for your safety. If we don’t be cautious, you’ll be


    discovered.”


    Annie cursed, “It’s all the bitch and the bastard’s fault. I’ll wait and see. I must give them a lesson!”


    Ste stood there and gave a smile in silence.


    It was surprising to meet Annie Conrad who became a fugitive at the airport.


    No one knew it was fate or coincidence.


    However, Annie Conrad still showed no regret even in such conditions.


    At this moment, a bodyguard noticed Ste and asked in alert, “Who’s there?”


    #### Chapter 233: Come to Be Beaten up


    Just as the bodyguards came toward Ste, Ste felt an arm was put round her waist.


    In a second, a urinal came into Ste’s sight.


    “….”


    Before she realized what happened, she heard foot stepsing outside the toilet.


    Soon she was pulled into a cubicle.


    The bodyguards entered the toilet and tried to open and check the cubicles one by one.


    As Ste was alert to the noise outside, she widened her eyes wondering why rence was also here.


    Noticing the bodyguards wereing closer to their cubicle, rence lowered his eyes looking at


    Ste’s eyes and then tightened his hand around her waist, pulling her close to him. rence lowered


    his head and then bit her lips softly.


    Ste struggled instinctively, but rence held her wrist and pressed her against the wood wall,


    creating a loud noise.


    The cubicle’s door rattled with shallow breathing.


    The sound created a sensuality.


    The bodyguards outside looked at each other and immediately understood what was happening in it.


    One of the bodyguard whispered, “No more trouble. The car ising. Let’s go.”


    Soon their footsteps faded away.


    After the toilet’s door was closed, rence let go Ste and took a step backward, licking his lips


    insatiably.


    Ste was outraged and began to hit rence with her bag as she scolded, “Asshole! Bastard!”


    When she was calm down, rence held her wrist, “I helped you. You should be grateful!”


    Ste shouted, “I didn’t ask for it!”


    She covered herselfpletely and hid half of her face with a hat, so they could barely recognize her.


    If it were not for rence pulled her into the cubicle, they couldn’t have suspected her.


    rence said, “I told you Annie Conrad is a lunatic. If she discovered you this time, you think she’d let


    you go?”


    Ste didn’t want to waste her time for bullshit with him. As she was about to push him away and leave,


    she heard two men were talking outside.


    Soon Ste heard their belts were untied.


    At that moment, she imagined to kill rence tens of thousands of times.


    But surprisingly, she didn’t hear the peeing sound as she expected because rence took her into his


    arms and covered her ears with her hat.


    It seemed like all sounds outside were isted.


    She only felt rence’s heart beating strongly.


    rence lowered his eyes to look at Ste’s eyes, raised his eyebrows and then lowered his head


    slowly.


    When he was about to kiss her, Ste pped him in his face.


    rence, “….”


    Ste ignored him and leaned on the door the listen to the noise outside. When she was sure that there


    was no one outside, she opened the door, covering her face with the hat, and left quickly.


    rence touched his lips with his tongue and followed up.


    As soon as Ste walked out the airport, she was held by the waist and taken into a ck car.


    In the car, Nathan was surprised to see Ste. He was astonished for a while before he opened his


    mouth, “Mrs. … Ms. Radomil ….”


    Ste smiled at him, looking extremely embarrassed.


    rence came to the other door, got in the car and then ordered in a cold voice, “Drive.”


    “Yes.”


    Ten minutester, Ste couldn’t stand the suffocating silence anymore, so she asked tentatively, “Why


    is Mr. Conrad here?”


    rence didn’t lift his eyelids, “Come to be beaten up.”


    Ste, “….”


    A wretched and vindictive man.


    Not to be outdone, Ste talked back, “Mr. Conrad did hooliganism, so what I did was self-defense.”


    rence looked out the window quietly, ignoring her.


    Ste nced him secretly wondering if he was angry.


    He took the advantage of her so many times and he even took her into the male toilet. But she only


    gave him a p. She was nice enough.


    Nathan didn’t understand why they quarreled again. He coughed trying to distract, “Mr. Conrad, I found


    out that the Steward family ns to send Miss Conrad to City F by boat first and then send her to


    Canada by private ne.”


    Hearing the news, Ste kept silent for a while and then asked, “Has she left?”


    “Not yet. Something is wrong with the ship. They can’t leave until 10 pm tomorrow.”


    Ste understood easily why was the boat broken.


    Thinking of that, she nced at rence again.


    In the dim light, Ste saw a few red finger marks on the wretched man’s face.


    Ste widened her eyes in shock. She didn’t think she pped him so hard.


    Why did it look so serious? It made Ste feel guilty.


    Before long, the car stopped in front of a hotel.


    It was the hotel where rence stayed when he came to Aqockst time.


    Getting off the car, Ste took out her luggage and spoke to Nathan, “I don’t enter the hotel. You ….”


    Nathan said in a serious voice, “Ms. Radomil, there is no other hotel avable in the neighborhood.”


    Ste pointed to a hotel not far away, “I see one.”


    Nathan continued with his lie, “It’s the tourist season now as the New Year’s Day is around the corner,


    so those hotels are full.”


    Ste sighed in silence. Fine, working for someone else was not easy, especially working for rence.


    It was even difficult to survive as rence’s employee.


    Ste snapped her gaze back and then passed by the wretched man to enter the hotel.


    rence gave a casual nce at Nathan, raised his eyebrows slightly and then followed Ste.


    Nathan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was really difficult as an assistant.


    Ste stood in front of the front desk and passed her ID card to the staff, “A single room, thank you.”


    The manager of the hotel was talking with the staff, so he took over Ste’s ID card. He wanted to ask


    Ste for more information, but he was shocked to find rence behind Ste. As he was about to


    greet rence, thetter tilted his head signaling to the manager that he should finish his work first.


    The manager looked back and forth from rence to Ste with a nk face. At the end, he turned to


    Nathan for help, and thetter nodded at him.


    The manager understood immediately and made an “ok” gesture to rence secretly.


    Subsequently, he said to Ste in a serious voice, “Lady, there is no single room avable, so can we


    arrange a suite for you with the same charge for a single room?”


    Ste rubbed her temples. She noticed what they did behind her.