Chapter 361


    Donald, who was on the other end of the phone call, fell silent for a few seconds before asking, “Wait,


    something’s not right. Aren’t you supposed to be with…”


    - “I am her boyfriend, do you have something to say about that?”


    - “Why not, didn’t I coax his wife today?”


    Donald was feeling like aplete dumbass for what he had done that night.


    He tried to defend himself and said, “Vincent James is the one at fault here, he was the one who gave


    me this number!”


    As soon as he finished saying that, he hung up the call, and made another call to Vincent to berate


    him.


    On the other side, Ste heard the noiseing from her phone. She shook her hands and kept the


    phone near her bosom.


    The driver quickly opened the car’s door when he saw that both of them were approaching the car.


    As rence escorted Ste into the car, he said to the driver, “Go to the Starry Lake Mansion.”


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    Ste objected to his decision, “No!”


    rence turned around and looked at her with a dark expression, “Where do you want to go, then?”


    Ste replied, “Anywhere but there.”


    rence put on a slight pout, and gave another address to the driver.


    During the journey, Ste was feeling even more nauseous and wanted to vomit.


    She leaned outside the window and tried to vomit, but nothing came out of her mouth.


    rence patted her on the back, smirked and said, “Experiencing the consequences now, aren’t you?”


    Ste ignored him and enjoyed the cold winding from the window. After a while, she replied, “Back


    when I was pregnant, I’ve experienced worse than this.”


    “...So, are you drunk or not?”


    “Don’t you know that drunken people still have some semnce of rational thinking?”


    After that, she did not say anything else, and let the wind blow her hair into a mess.


    It did not take long for rence to pull her back into the car and close the window.


    A short whileter, the ck Rolls-Royce stopped in front of a condominium in the city centre.


    rence asked, “Are you gonna walk or do you want me to carry you?”


    “I’ll walk myself.”


    Ste got out of the car as she spoke. She was stumbling as she walked towards the condo.


    rence pressed his tongue against his teeth as he followed her.


    Sometimes when she was about to fall down, she regained her bnce just in time to not fall face-first


    onto the floor.


    She stumbled for a few minutes before feeling that something was off. She turned around and asked,


    “What’s this ce?”


    rence stepped forward and pulled her into his embrace, and they moved to the side.


    There was only one unit on every floor, thus the lift leads right into a wide entrance.


    rence gave Ste a pair of slippers from the shoe rack and said, “There’s only my stuff here. Put


    this on first, I’ll find you some clothester.”


    As he said that, he went into the bedroom while removing his tie.


    Ste was feeling tired, she could not be bothered to change her shoes.


    She chose to sit on the cushion next to the shoe rack.


    When rence came back out with clothes for her to change into, Ste had already fallen asleep


    while leaning on the wall.


    He ced the clothes on the sofa, got down to one of his knees, held her ankle and removed her


    shoes.


    As he was putting on the slippers, she felt somewhat annoyed, and gave rence a kick.


    rence red at her with wickedness in his smile and said, “Look at you, it seems it’s time for me to


    bathe you.”


    Ste was rendered speechless by him.


    She flung open her eyes and simply put on the male’s slippers. She then walked into the room,


    grabbed the clothes on the sofa and asked, “Where’s the bathroom?”


    rence pointed with his chin, “Over there.”


    Ste entered the bathroom, and to prevent him from entering the room, she purposely locked the


    bathroom door from the inside.


    Standing beneath the warm water pouring from the showerhead, she rubbed her face in an attempt to


    wake herself up.


    Listening to the rustling in the bathroom, rence opened the fridge and took a look inside. He


    frowned, mmed the door shut and made a call to someone.


    Ste took an hour to clean herself and dry her hair.


    She was wearing rence’s oversized shirt. She was also blushing, possibly due to the drunkenness


    or the hot steam from the bathroom.


    rence ce a bowl of hangover soup on the table and said, “Come here.”


    Ste walked there, stared at the bowl and asked, “It’s not poisoned, right?”


    “I’m not the one who made it, if that answers your question.”


    “Oh, it should be fine then.”


    Ste immediately drank the entire bowl.


    rence was speechless as she drank the soup.


    He pinched his nose and asked, “Do you want something to eat?”


    Ste finished the soup, let out a slight burp and replied, “No.”


    “Go to sleep then.”


    She blinked and stared at rence with watery eyes, “I can’t sleep.”


    rence heard what she said, stealthily licked his lips, swallowed some saliva, and said with a lower


    voice than usual, “Since you can’t sleep, do you want to do something? Hmm?”


    Ste did not entertain his statement, as she looked around and asked her, “Do youe here often?”


    rence replied, “Ie here sometimes, but it’s been quite a while since I’vest been here.”


    She thought for a while before saying, “So, is this where you go when you don’t want to see my face


    during those three years?”


    During that time, if rence did not want to go back to the Starry Lake Mansion, even more so to the


    Conrad family, he definitely was staying somewhere else. Ste had always knew that, but she did not


    bother to ask him for more details.


    As he heard what Ste said, rence was regretting his decision to bring her here.


    He replied at a slower pace, “Not exactly, I wasn’t really avoiding you or anything, it’s just that


    sometimes I stay there when I’m on a business trip.”


    Ste replied, “Oh.”


    It was extremely obvious that she did not trust rence at all.


    rence rubbed his temple. Why did he even bother to reason with a drunken woman?


    “It’s already veryte. Don’t you have work tomorrow? Go to sleep, okay?”


    Ste got up and asked, “Where do I sleep?”


    rence brought her to the bedroom.


    Ste entered the room and shut the door with zero hesitation, “Thanks, good night.”


    rence was speechless.


    She was already exhausted. She lied down on the bed and closed her eyes. However, the longer she


    slept, the more she was awake for whatever reason. She felt like her brain was going full speed around


    itself and spinning like a neutron star.


    After some time, there was some noises on the other side of the door, it sounded like someone was


    unlocking the door with a key.


    Following that was some deep footsteps.


    Ste, who had finally managed to sleep somewhat soundly, suddenly felt that something bit her chin. It


    was a little painful and itchy.


    Soon, that painful feeling travelled down to her throat.


    When Ste wanted to push him away, she could not as her hands were tied up and held above her


    head.


    rence whispered into her ears in his usual deep voice, “Babe, be a good girl, okay?”


    Every time that wretched man called her ‘babe’, he was up to something wicked.


    Ste said softly, “rence.”


    “Hmm?”


    “Do you love me?”


    He kissed her eyebrows and said, “Of course I do.”


    Ste replied, “Then why did you lie to me?”


    rence stopped what he was doing, “I didn’t.”


    “Swear it, then. Swear that if you ever lied to me, then the both of us will…”


    rence gave her a deep kiss, silencing her as her words were muffled by his mouth.


    Heh, that wretched man.