Griffon’ eyes dimmed. It was because his Taya was hurt in the past.
He once hurt her badly. How could the heart riddled with a thousand gaping wounds have trust in him?
Griffon didn’t answer Jessica’s words. Instead, he maintained a chilling face as he clenched onto the knife in his hand, aiming at Jessica’s other hand…
Seeing that he didn’t intend to let her go, Jessica burst with rage. “It’s you, it’s you who treated her with indifference. That’s why her disappointment in you overflowed. It has nothing to do with me!!!
Griffon was stunned. When had he ever treated Taya indifferently?
His sharp cold glance swept past Jessica before he raised the knife in his hand to stab it into her fingertips.
“Make your words clear!”
Sensing that it could potentially save her life, Jessica knew that she must not tell him everything so easily.
“If you promise to let me go, I’ll explain later, Griffon was a man of his words. As long as he compromised, she could escape a close death!
She was waiting for Griffon’ answer, but a loud and confident voice was heard…
“You don’t have to tell him, I found out about everything!”
In a long red gown and high heels, Emelyn marched in with her arms crossed, stepping into the room with a female bodyguard.
After throwing the surveillance footage to Zack, she walked up to Griffon and waved at him.
“Go and see the truth. Give me some time to teach her a lesson!”
Hearing those words, Jessica looked up at Emelyn in disbelief, her eyes were wide open.
“Ms. Davies, I didn’t offend you. Why would you want to teach me a lesson?!”
Without bothering to give Jessica a single glance, Emelyn took a pair of white gloves from Cindee and took her time to put them on.
He grabbed Jessica by the collar and lifted her up from the ground before raising her free hand to send a firm slap acrossJessica’s face! You’re asking why?”
“You maliciously edited pictures of me and ruined my reputation, shouldn’t I teach you a lesson?”
“You spread rumors and made my crush misunderstood me, don’t you think I should teach you a lesson?”
“As a doctor, you have medical ethics but no morals, shouldn’t I teach you a lesson?!”
With every sentence Emelyn said, she slapped Jessica hard.
Only when Emelyn was left with swollen cheeks and blurred eyes was she thrown back onto the ground.
Emelyn took off her gloves and handed them back to Cindee, heaving a sigh of relief.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever given someone such a beating. How rude, but it’s quite satisfying. What’s going on?”
Looking at the elegant woman in front of her, who showed no mercy when making her move, Cindee couldn’t help chuckling.
“Ms. Davies, please do not forget. This isn’t the first time you’ve given slaps, you just do not like wasting time and will just get rid of them directly.”
Emelyn agreed and noded his head.
After a great stretch, she walked up to Griffon and saw the screen on the tablet in his hand, which happened to show Taya at the restaurant searching for him, but after noticing the look in his eyes, she dared not take another step forward.
She pointed to the gla*s of the restaurant shown on the screen and explained to Griffon, “It’s LOW-E gla*s. When the light from the outside is stronger during the day, the people outside won’t be able to see through the window. At night, the opposite happens. When the lights inside are brighter than the outside, the inner surface of the gla*s serves as a mirror and one wouldn’t be able to see what’s happening outside while everything is visible from the outside.”
“Unfortunately, when Taya came for you, it happened to be at night. I begged for the two of us to act as a couple and requested your help in forging an alibi, but out of unwillingness, you turned your head to the window with your face cold. Taya, who thought those sitting in the restaurant could view the outside of the restaurant, probably took it as your indifference toward her after seeing her, so she was heartbroken…”
After Emelyn’s words came to an end, she glanced at the pale Griffon and couldn’t help complaining to herself. Couldn’t this good-looking face smile a little more? Was there any need for Griffon’ face to be cold all day long just like her brother’s? Did they think that it was cool?
After Emelyn’s grumble, she continued, “I have to admit that Taya is quite brave. She stood stunned for a while before rushing to the door of the restaurant, probably to demand an explanation face-to-face, but she was stopped by the security.”
“This is my fault. Out of consideration that someone might eavesdrop on our conversation, I booked the venue, and for fear that members of the organization would come to me at any time, I reminded the guards to only allow whoever handed the invitation card over to enter. As you know, the invitation card is the secret code of the organization…”
The screen swiftly turned to the scene where Jessica stopped Taya from knocking on the gla*s. Seeing so, Emelyn turned around and landed her palm on Jessica for another slap.
“You know that the restaurant is equipped with LOW-E gla*s, and not only did you not tell Taya, you stopped her. D*mn it!”
Jessica suffered from such a vicious beating that she was rendered at a loss of fighting back. The pain in her fingers, wrists, and cheeks forced her to lie on the ground, unable to speak a word.
After giving Jessica a slap, Emelyn looked away and returned her gaze to Griffon who was trembling all over again.
“I’m sorry. When we left the restaurant, I was the one who requested everyone to put on wireless headphones so that it’d be more convenient for all of us to get in contact, so when Taya ran from behind, trying to catch up and calling your name, no one noticed. Plus, the sound of the rain that night was too loud, so we couldn’t hear her voice while we were talking to the headquarters.”
Griffon stared at the monitor the whole time without saying a word as he watched Taya running behind him all the way and ended up tripping over into a muddy puddle. His heart ached so much for her that his eyes were red-rimmed.
It turned out that not only did she visit the restaurant, she tried her best to catch up with him, which he failed to notice at that time…
Griffon tightened his grip on the tablet, shuddering uncontrollably, as his trembling fingers stroked the desperate she-wolf on the screen.
He stared closely at her figure, to see that not long after, she braced herself to get back up, stag gering all the way to the hotel.
Although she was disappointed to the extreme, she had never given up on searching for him.
Yet, the hotel was the territory of the Aronland royal pack, so how could Taya ever get in?
Griffon’ heart stopped beating when he saw the wry smile on her pale face after being driven away by the bodyguards…
He thought she would leave just then, but he didn’t expect her to settle on a bench not far from the hotel after wobbling down the steps.
Drenched in the pouring rain, silly, she sat where she was, with desperate eyes, motionless, looking at the entrance to the hotel.
She was waiting for him, waiting for him to come out, but he never came out, and for the sake of their organization, he left through
the back door of the hotel…
Taya knew nothing. What she saw was that he entered the hotel with other women, while she didn’t even have the right to step into the lobby of the hotel.
He would never know how desperate she had felt when she sat on the bench with rain pouring, drenching her from head to toe.
All he knew was that he was a b*stard, while he didn’t give her enough sense of security. Instead, he hurt her, over and over again.
His heart ached so badly that he suffocated, especially when he saw how Taya was hugging her knees and crying her lungs out
when she saw no signs of him. He was so distressed that he couldn’t breathe. The tears that he ding back couldn’t help but roll down his cheeks.
His Taya, after crying bitterly, completely gave up on him. Only then did she find her lost pile of items…
No! How could it be such a coincidence? How could she have found her lost items just as she had lost all her faith in him?