“Bang!”
In the office, the chair was kicked to fall on the ground, cracking into halves.
Stanford looked extremely annoyed and furious. He roared fiercely, “Come again? What happened to Flory?”
The secretary stiffed, standing there in a panic.
He repeated in a weak tone, “Little Miss wanted to sneak out by climbing the wall, but she carelessly fell. She got multiple wounds on her because of the fall.”
“Bang!” Stanford gave another kick, and the desk in front of him cracked immediately.
He was burning in rages, squeezing words between his teeth, “It was because of Ernest again. He should go to hell!”
The secretary stiffed again, sensing the murderous air running through the office in fear.
He said in a panic, “Young Master, you’ve promised Little Miss that you won’t hurt Ernest Hawkins.”
That was just before Flory was injured because of him. My Flory is lying on the bed with wounds now. Why should he be worry-free without having any loss?”
Looking extremely furious, Stanford strode out of the office.
At the same time, he ordered, “Call our men to gather in front of the Cindery Hotel.”
Cold sweat dripped from the secretary’s forehead. “Young Master, please think twice…”
Ignoring his words completely, Stanford rushed out of his office at a fast pace.
After Florence’s parents left the room, silence blanketed her room soon.
Subconsciously, she fumbled for her cell phone.
Right then, Tammy walked in from the door. She rushed over and stopped Florence in a hurry.
She said with concern, “Little Miss, you have so many wounds on your body. Stop moving around, please.”
Florence frowned. “My hand can move. Where is my phone?”
“Little Miss, the doctor said you should sleep to rest.”
“Let me check my phone first.”
Florence was quite stubborn, so Tammy couldn’t do anything. She had to take out the phone from a secret corner of the room.
She handed it to Florence. “It got wet in the rain. I simply dried it for you. It’s still working.”
“Thank you, Tammy.”
Florence smiled gratefully at Tammy and turned on her phone.
However, after checking the message log, she didn’t find any new message from Ernest after she had made such a fuss.
He didn’t reply to her last message at all.
Florence was disappointed and more worried. If not mistaken, Ernest must have encountered something quite tough to deal with.
Was it because Stanford was making trouble for him?
She flustered. However, in her current situation, she could only lie on the bed, let alone sneaking out.
Florence wondered what she should do.
What on earth could she do to help Ernest?
Florence felt annoyed. Being sleepless, she was lying on the bed irritably.
After a long while, suddenly, she heard her phone ring.
Florence was stunned. It was still the daytime. It shouldn’t be a call from Ernest. She wondered who it would be.
In confusion, she picked up the phone. When she found it was Ernest’s caller ID, she was taken aback.
It turned out to be a video call from Ernest.
Florence was surprised and joyful. She had never expected that Ernest would invite her to have a video call during the daytime.
Immediately, she wanted to answer the call. When she was about to tab on the accept button, she suddenly recalled something. Immediately, she tossed her hair down to cover the wounds on her face.
After getting well-prepared, Florence answered the phone with a smile.
When the call was connected, Ernest’s handsome face appeared on the screen. Frowning deeply, he looked quite solemn.
Florence’s smile was stiffened, a bad hunching surging in her heart.
She asked in worry, “What happened?”
Ernest stared at her deeply, faint fury appearing on his good-looking face.
He asked in a deep voice, “Have you got injured?”
Florence was taken aback, becoming flustered.
She wondered how he got to know it.
Gritting her teeth, she tried hard to be calm. She said with a smile, “No, I haven’t. Why did you suddenly ask? I’m pretty well.”
“Toss your hair behind your ears,” Ernest ordered.
The hair was used to hide her wounds. If Florence tossed it back, Ernest would see them.
She said with a cheeky smile, “Don’t you like my new hairstyle? I plan to have a haircut with a few hairs beside my cheeks. In this way, my face would look smaller.”
Ernest creased his brows deeply.
He said in a blaming tone, “You’ve got injured but you’re not planning to tell me, right?”
He was directly questioning her instead of hiding anything.
No matter how slow Florence was, she understood that Ernest must have heard that she got injured.
She looked at him cowardly, “How did you know it?”
It was only two or three hours since she got injured, and it happened in the Fraser family. Ernest was outside. She wondered if he had any spy in the villa.
However, all people working in the villa were all internal members of the Fraser family…
Ernest frowned deeply. Instead of answering Florence, he gazed at her and whispered to ask, “Is it serious?”
Florence immediately shook her head. “Not at all. I just go some scratches.”
“Show me,” Ernest requested because he knew Florence was perfunctory.
Florence didn’t want to worry him, but he insisted, so she could only pull her hair away and showed him a few scars on her face.
As soon as Ernest saw those scars, his face was darkened, rages surging in his eyes.
He lowered his voice more and asked, “How about the wounds on your body?”
Florence hesitated. “Do I need to show you the wounds on my body through the video call? That’s so embarrassing. Why not just ignore them? I’m too shy.”
“Let me take a look,” Ernest said determinedly and overbearingly, his eyes sharp.
Florence shrank her neck, feeling guilty under his gaze.
After a hesitation, she could only hold the cell phone farther so that Ernest could see her upper top.
Florence was under the quilt, but the other arm of her was injured and bandaged.
When seeing that she was lying on the bed on a drip, Ernest couldn’t help but breathe deeply.
Rage surged in his heart.
Florence was guilty and panicked. In a hurry, she smiled and said, “I just fell on the ground. It doesn’t hurt. I’ll recover in two days. Those doctors are too cautious. They bandaged my wounds so seriously. It’s not that serious as it looks.”
Ernest didn’t look less annoyed because of her words.
He gazed at Florence. After a long moment of silence, he said in a deep voice, “Lie there and don’t move. I’ll go to see you.”
“What?”
Florence gaped. She immediately turned to look out of the window, out of which there was still a downpour. She could hear the sound of the raindrops. It was a bad day.
Besides, it was in the afternoon, although everything was blurred, anyone under the daylight could be seen.
“No, Ernest, please don’t. It rains so heavily now and it’s not dark yet. You’ll easily be seen when you come over.”
Florence didn’t want Ernest to be discovered. Otherwise, if her family got prepared, it would be very difficult for him to come in again.
In that case, she wouldn’t be able to meet him even at night, would she?
Ernest answered in a depressed tone, “I can’t wait, Florence.”
As he spoke, Ernest stood up and strode out. “Wait for me. Let’s hang up.”
“No! Don’t!” Florence said hurriedly and stopped him from hanging up.
She asked anxiously, “Did you climb in from the wall? The bodyguards should have found that spot.”
As she spoke, Florence didn’t dare to look at him, feeling so guilty.
It was all because that she climbed the wall recklessly. Otherwise, things wouldn’t have become like this.