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When I opened my eyes, Zack’s fingers were tracing the bruises on my wrist.
“Do you remember what happened last night?” His voice was as sweet as honey, but his eyes behind the gold–rimmed glasses were scrutinizing me.
I tried to get up, but my body, ravaged by both the date rape drug and hypnosis drug, wouldn’t move.
Lowering my eyes in silence for a moment, I looked up and blinked in confusion, deliberately unfocusing my gaze.
“I don’t remember… My head hurts so much… My body hurts too…”
He patted my head, his face full of doting affection, “Silly girl, you don’t even remember falling and hurting yourself.”
I shrank into the blanket, my nails digging hard into my palm.
The pain kept me alert, and also reminded me how disgusting his fake tenderness was right now.
After all, he had given me an unforgettable lesson.
Vanessa arrived just in time for dinner.
4:04 PM
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“Oh my, Aria has gotten so thin!” She casually tossed her silk shawl onto the sofa, revealing her alluring collarbone, causing darken.
“Those videos online…”
Zack coughed lightly, “Vanessa, Aria hit her head and forgot some things. Let’s not bring up the past.”
Vanessa’s face froze for a moment, then she smiled again and took the bird’s nest porridge from the maid to feed me,
“Then we need to nourish you well.”
The freshly cooked porridge was scalding hot. She saw the steam rising but still shoved it into my mouth.
I was burned and knocked over her bowl, spilling the sticky porridge all over her skirt.
The moment Zack frowned, I immediately trembled like a frightened rabbit: “I’m sorry… my hand shook…”
His gaze lingered on my reddened lips for a moment, but he finally sighed and got up to help Vanessa wipe h
back of her hand soothingly.
That night, I was finally able to walk on my own.
When i tried to escape through the front door, I found guards posted there.
Zack’s
eyes
to
his fingers caressing the
I overheard their contemptuous discussion, “The young master’s fiancée looks so pure and innocent, who knew she’d moan even more seductively than a nightclub girl in that video when she was unconscious.”
I felt like I’d fallen into an ice pit. Just how many people had seen that private video of me?
As I stumbled back to my room in a daze, I saw through a crack in the study door that Vanessa was placing a glass of milk on Zack’s desk. The strap of her silk nightgown was slipping off her elbow in a suggestive manner.
Her well–maintained skin glowed like a young girl’s in the moonlight, looking nothing like a stepmother twelve years older than Zack.
Vanessa deliberately leaned forward, her chest brushing against Zack’s right arm as he typed. I clearly saw his Adam’s apple bob.
Zack restrained himself from touching her, but his gaze was fixed on her fallen strap. “Vanessa, it’s cold at night. Put on a robe.”
Vanessa grasped his wrist as he held out a robe, caressing it as if touching a lover. An ambiguous atmosphere flowed between them.
The sound of me stepping on my skirt startled them. Zack immediately stood up to open the door. When he saw me, the air froze for a
moment.
