In a daze, Dorothy felt that a cold stare was fixated on her. It was frigid and threatening. She could feel her anxiety and her heart beat faster.
Opening her eyes, she was shocked to see herself in Juelz’s arms, and his thick lips were inching closer to her lips…
“Juelz, thank you for sending me home. I’ll get out now.”
Dorothy turned her face quickly and dodged him. She opened the door swiftly and got out of the car like a frightened rabbit running away.
After coming to a standstill, she raised her head and her eyes met Credence’s magnificent eyes that were a few meters away. Dorothy’s face turned pale gradually.
With a flick, Credence lit up his cigarette. He parted his lips slightly to smoke and then breathed out slowly. In the swirling white mist, his cold and stern features were blurred completely, and no one could see his true emotion.
Dorothy felt a little awkward, as if she had been caught in the act inside the car. She squeezed a smile onto her face calmly, “It’s late. Is there anything you need?”
This man, who had not shown up for half a month, didn’t stay by Rosalie’s side. Instead, he drove for an hour to this villa in a suburb. Dorothy did not know what was going on, and she felt extremely uneasy.
Credence had finished smoking. He flicked the cigarette into the rubbish bin at the side of the road casually. His eyes were as dark as ink, exhibiting a mixture of emotions that Dorothy couldn’t figure out. An expression that seemed like self-mockery disappeared in a flash.
He stared at Dorothy who was wearing a long white chest-wrapped dress. She looked very charming with her long hair draped over her shoulders. He smelled a strong scent of alcohol on her body, and he furrowed his eyebrows sharply. He said, “Dorothy, you drank with another man and took him home before you got divorced. Are you so impatient?”
His voice was low and attractive as usual. However, it was as horrible as a demon’s to Dorothy. She could feel her body involuntarily tremble.
After a long silence, she fisted her sweaty hands, straightened her back, and abruptly smiled, “Credence, you’re right. I can’t wait for it. Since you’ve been busy accompanying my sister in the hospital for half a month, it’s fair for me to look for Juelz to satisfy my needs as well, isn’t it?”
Upon hearing her words, Credence’s frosty features turned gloomy.
Before she could say anything else, his big and fair hand suddenly grabbed Dorothy’s thin wrist and dragged her into the villa.
“Credence, what are you doing? Let go of me!”
The rims of her eyes reddened as she struggled to break free from him.
If it was in the past, she would hope for his true emotional reaction, and she wouldn’t dare to resist. However, at that moment, they were in the middle of an intense quarrel. Even a dog could bite when it was desperate, let alone a human being.
Meanwhile, even though Juelz didn’t drink as much wine as Dorothy, his mind and body reacted slower than usual. He only came to his senses when Dorothy was dragged by Credence like a sack. Seeing that scenario, he jumped out of the car and rushed over to them at breakneck speed.
“Credence Scott, how can you bully Dory? Screw you, you son of a b*tch!”
He ran as fast as a hurricane, smashing into Credence’s cold and stern figure from behind.
“You’re courting death!”
Hearing the noise coming from behind him, Credence narrowed his long eyes. He stretched his hands to pick up Dorothy quickly and dodged Juelz’s attack. Then, he lifted his long and strong leg and accurately kicked at the important part of Juelz’s lower body…
“What the f*ck!”
Juelz swiftly covered the part beneath his abdomen with his hands, and his face twisted in pain. “It f*cking hurts!”
They interacted like a fast shot in a movie, which passed in a flash.
When Dorothy came to her senses, she was already violently thrown into the bathtub by Credence. He took the showerhead and aimed it at her face with a gloomy expression. He pressed on it hard and her body was soaked with warm water in an instant.
“Wash yourself from head to toe!” Credence instructed.
After saying this sentence coldly, he turned around and walked out of the bathroom.
…
In the study room on the first floor, Benjamin had been waiting for a long time. He shifted his gaze from the floor-to-ceiling window to Juelz, who was blocked outside and couldn’t enter the house. Juelz was still covering his crotch and jumping in pain. After hesitating for a few moments, he finally spoke, “Mr. Scott, Mr. Sherman seems to be in pain. Is he alright?”
He was not worrying about Juelz’s male functions in the future. Instead, he worried about the collaboration between the Scott Group and the Sherman Group, which was worth over 10 billion dollars. Mr. Scott kicking Juelz might affect the collaboration of the two groups if it went public.
“He’s alright.”
The man who had just entered the room sat on a big black executive chair behind the desk. He was sitting cross-legged and his gaze was cold.
Benjamin didn’t dare to say anything more.
The study room fell into silence for a moment.
About five or six minutes later, Credence leaned over the desk and took out a signed copy of the equity contract from his drawer. He threw it at Benjamin and said, “No need to give it to her anymore. Get rid of it as soon as possible.”
Originally, he had planned to pass this document to Dorothy after returning home that night. After all, she had spent years with him and she deserved it. At the moment, it seemed like he was doing something superfluous.
Benjamin reached out and took the document. He was shocked to see that it was an equity contract for Dorothy.
This was a fund that was worth hundreds of millions of dollars!
In fact, Mr. Scott cared about his wife more than what he showed. As he was quite introverted and had never been in love before, he treated marriage and women in the same way he treated businessmen in the business world. He never paid attention to what his wife really wanted.
In the next second, Benjamin saw a divorce agreement. The final column on equity transfer had been mercilessly canceled with a thick black line, which almost tore the paper.
“Mr. Scott, do you want to reconsider?”
Benjamin tried to change Credence’s mind. However, Credence waved his hand dejectedly without saying anything. It was clear that he had already made up his mind, and there was no room for any changes.
“Okay, Mr. Scott. I’ll make the arrangements right now.”
Benjamin stood on the marble steps after walking out of the villa. His eyes swept around but he could not find Juelz, nor Juelz’s fancy luxury car. Most probably, he couldn’t bear the pain and had rushed to the hospital for treatment.
With a heavy heart, Benjamin walked to the SUV that he had parked in the parking lot. After getting into the car, he hesitated for a moment and looked at the guest room with its lights on. He then shook his head and let out a long sigh.
…
After taking a bath, Dorothy changed into white cotton pajamas. She took a few sips of the soup prepared by Maria. She was dizzily sitting at the edge of the bed, eavesdropping on what was going on upstairs.
She waited one o’clock in the morning. However, Credence didn’t show up.
No one knew what kind of punishment would be awaiting her. Dorothy was so scared she forced herself to keep awake.
Gradually, she grew tired. Her eyelids were drooping close. She was so uneasy when she got onto the bed. She didn’t dare to close her eyes, fearing that Credence would suddenly break into the guest room and cause her trouble.
She was thinking about some random things. As time went by, she fell asleep unknowingly.
Dorothy did not know how long she had slept, but she could hear the sound of the door opening.
She did not sleep soundly. Her body shuddered and she woke up from her dream upon hearing it. In the dark, she could make out a slender black shadow walking toward her slowly.
Before she could react, Credence’s huge body had pressed down on her fiercely. Dorothy couldn’t help shuddering as she felt his ice-cold breath. Her tears streamed down from the corners of her eyes.
“Are you going to humiliate me again?”
“Yes.”
Without any gentle foreplay, Credence’s long and cold fingers landed on her warm chest. He tore her pajamas apart abruptly and asked with his thin lips curled up, “Have you washed your body? Can you do it?”