Ulric’s voice instantly became hoarse as he grasped her wrist.
“Rosalind, don’t do something you’ll regret.”
But how could the current Rosalind heed such advice? Under the influence of drugs and alcohol, her gaze was scattered, and her burning hand touched aimlessly. Ulric felt as though she was jumping relentlessly on his sanity- “Rosalind, come to your senses!”
“Don’t you want me… I’m in pain, I’m hot…”
Ulric’s temples throbbed as he tried to pull her hand away. But the more he tried, the tighter she clung! The pain made him hiss, but he clenched his teeth. He didn’t want anything to happen with Rosalind in this state; she was drunk, but he was not! “Rosalind, let go,” Ulric said through clenched teeth.
“I won’t!”
Rosalind even laughed, “You’re even hotter than me…”
“Rosalind!”
“It… it’s so hard.”
Ulric could even hear his reasoning collapsing! “You’ll regret this when you wake up.”
“I won’t regret-” He suddenly turned the tables, captured her lips, and began to plunder and entangle… Ulric still felt like he was dreaming, none of it seemed real! Not until she, inexperienced for so long, bit down hard on his shoulder, did the pain bring him some sense of reality.
“It hurts… Ulric, it hurts…”
“Bite harder, even harder!”
That made him feel more real. To know this wasn’t just a dream he had been having for four years, to know this was real. … Lion took the next available flight to Jingtown.
The good news was that there was indeed a flight that day, and he managed to get on it. The bad news was the flight was delayed until the next morning. He nearly blew up Rosalind’s phone with calls, probably turning off automatically because it ran out of battery.
When the plane landed at Jingtown Airport, Mr. Wong had also given him Brandon and Natalie’s phone numbers. He didn’t even wait to disembark before calling Brandon.
“I’m Lion, what happened last night? Where’s Miss Ruell?”
“I don’t know, I took Natalie back to the hotel, planning to go back for Miss Ruell, but she was gone! She didn’t answer her phone, and nobody was in the restaurant.”
When Brandon hurried back, even Adrian and his boss were gone.
“Still no contact? Did she go back to the hotel where you’re staying?”
“No, I just knocked on the door, no one answered.”
“She might have been too drunk to hear! Have the hotel staff open the door to check.”
Brandon hesitated, “That doesn’t seem right…”
He was a man, after all. If he went in and saw something inappropriate, how awkward would it be to work together afterward! Lion had just realized this problem.
“Then let Natalie do it!”
“Okay, I’ll go wake her up. Natalie was also plied with drinks, they brought very strong alcohol, even a little got you drunk.”
Although Brandon wasn’t a heavy drinker, he could handle a bit, but the alcohol last night made even his eyes spin, let alone the two women. Mentioning this got Lion even more infuriated.
“I won’t let this go! Zenith has completely disregarded me, daring to mess with my people!”
He had dropped all his work to come here, determined to make Zenith pay.