Rather than a restaurant, the Red House is a relaxing clubhouse.
It contains dining, entertainment and a small theatre session and is also membership based.
Valenham’s clubs are different from those in Pearl and Hopkins, where they are private and are membership-based, doing a good job of filtering.
Those who enter and leave the Red House are all big shots with high status, wealth, or power in their hands.
This Monica actually has a membership card to the Red House, so it is clear that this is also a powerful woman with a wide range of connections.
Thinking of this, Lydia’s admiration for Monica intensified a little more.
Monica is young and beautiful, not yet thirty years old, and has achieved so much, with an unlimited future ahead of her.
“This is the place.”
Monica leads Lydia to a secluded box in the corner.
When she pushed the door, she saw that it was already full of guests.
They’re all professional women!
Seeing Lydia enter, the discussion in the room came to a screeching halt as they looked at Lydia in surprise.
All these women are not bad in terms of their beauty, but they are still far from Lydia.
Perhaps in awe of Lydia’s beauty, they sat in awe, forgetting to even say hello.
It was Monica who spoke up, “Let me introduce to you all, this is the president of L Group, Mr. Henderson.”
The crowd reacted to this and applauded.
“This is the managing director of Genesis Group.”
“This is the Minister of Foreign Trade of Tiansheng Company.”
“This is the Vice President of Tianma Holdings.”
“…”
Monica introduced the women in her seat to Lydia one by one, in order.
Lydia nodded in greeting and then took her seat.
What surprised her was that these women, in fact, listened to Monica and were very respectful.
Monica also ordered some signature dishes naturally, then smiled at Lydia and said, “Mr. Henderson, let’s eat first, only when we are full can we have the strength to talk about cooperation.”
“They are all very good friends of mine, and for my sake, talking about cooperation is a formality, a process of getting to know each other, and eventually they will definitely sign a contract.”
Lydia naturally did not doubt it and said with a smile, “Then thank you, Miss Green, I’ll drink a toast to Miss Green with tea instead of wine.”
But Monica’s face straightened and she waved her hand, refusing, “We’re all sisters, it’s no fun to drink tea, I ordered peach blossom wine, it’s a speciality here.”
“Peach blossom wine?”
Lydia is full of amazement.
Monica pulled out a jar with dirt sealed and said with a smile, “This is a special product of the Red House, it is fragrant but not bitter. Even when some big shots come to the Red House for dinner, they must order this peach blossom wine.”
“So that’s it.”
Lydia waved her hand apologetically, “Sorry, Miss Green, I don’t drink …”
“Lydia, let’s have a small drink.”
Monica interrupted Lydia and then, without any further ado, uncovered the clay lid and poured a cup for Lydia.
Soon, the fragrance of intoxicating wine spilled out and even Lydia found it fragrant.
After so many years in the mall, it would be a lie to say that Lydia doesn’t know how to drink.
It’s just that wine is something that misfires, and Lydia, in the spirit of not drinking if she can, can’t really put it off, so she has no choice but to drink it.
“If Miss Green says so, then fine.”
Monica laughed all at once, “Good.”
The moment she watched Lydia drink it, the corner of Monica’s mouth lifted with a cold smile as she succeeded in her plan.
After three rounds of wine, Lydia was not drunk, but she grabbed Monica’s hand and said happily, “Miss Green, I’m really happy to know a friend like you.”
Monica smiled and nodded, but looked a little anxious.
Because this Lydia had already drunk three cups of peach blossom wine in a row and showed no signs of being drunk yet.
This peach blossom wine has a strong aftertaste and she didn’t even dare to drink more, but Lydia merely blushed a little.
How did Monica know that Leo had deliberately exercised Lydia’s drinking capacity since the incident in Hopkins, in order to prevent Lydia from being backstabbed again.
Lydia looks cute when she’s drunk, her face flushed, and she’ll hug Leo’s hand and call out his name, just like a kitten.
Leo took a picture of Lydia drunk and secretly kept it. Lydia, who had always presented herself as a high-spirited person, would never have thought that the image of herself in Leo’s mind had been strongly contradicted.
Monica was a little anxious, the peach wine was gone, but Lydia was still fine.
Ordering another jar of peach blossom wine would seem deliberate and would make Lydia suspicious.
Then, a sinister glint flashed across Monica’s eyes, “Lydia, you forced me to do this!”
After signing the contract, Monica smilingly said to Lydia, “Miss. Henderson, let me take you back.”
Inside the car, Monica turned on the air conditioning.
However, instead of warm air, a puff of white smoke poured out from inside the car’s exhaust fan.
After inhaling the faint white smoke, Lydia’s eyelids became heavy and she soon closed her eyes, drifting off to sleep.
Looking at the unconscious Lydia, Monica’s face instantly turned disdainful as she cursed, “Bitch, you took so much effort!”
After saying that, she dialed a phone number, “Mr. Henderson, I got her.”
“Very good!”
Paul’s low voice came over the phone, “Don’t come to the Henderson’s Manor, I’ll send you an address later, you go there!”
Hanging up the phone, Monica turned the steering wheel straight away and drove in the opposite direction.
She knew that such things could only be done secretly and could not involve the Valenham royal family.
And just after Monica’s car drove onto the highway, a nondescript Buick was following not far behind.
The driver, a cold-blooded man with a veneer, the sun’s rays reflecting off his face, refracted with a chilling glint of metal.
It was the Western Killer, Zakariya.
Reflected beneath the mask are cold eyes.
He dialed Leo’s number, “Mr. Cohen, the situation is not quite right, Madam got into the car of that woman called Monica, but the car did not go back to the city, instead it went to the elevated.”
“What?”
Leo, who had just sent Emilia to the class, had a sudden gaze in his eyes at this moment, his eyes flickering with killing intent.
Leo was always uneasy about Lydia also going out alone, so he arranged for Zakariya to secretly protect her, and to his surprise, the result did not let him ‘down’.
After a moment of contemplation, Leo ordered directly, “Continue to follow her, but don’t make a rash move. I want to see who is so bold as to dare to take my wife away!”
Leo’s voice was low and suppressed with great anger, and Zakariya on the other side of the phone trembled, knowing that Leo was really angry.
He dared not disobey at that moment and followed not far behind.
In this respect, he is a professional.
After hanging up the phone, Leo dialed another number with a cold tone.
“Find out Monica, I want all her information.”
It’s easy to look up a person’s profile and soon, there was news.
“Monica, a native of Valenham, currently has two jobs, mainly with the Spencer royal family’s Ocean Group as a supervisor and the other job as a mall groundskeeper.”
Leo frowned slightly as he listened, “A mall groundskeeper?”
“It’s the usual ‘intermediaries’, specialising in matching companies from outside the province and city and organising dinner parties to introduce local companies in Valenham, but it’s all a scam.”
“Invite the small management who are affiliated with the local company to the banquet together, claim to the public that they are the top management of the company and have the right to decide on the cooperation, then these people are sharing the money according to the proportion, and the foreign companies who don’t know the market can easily be cheated.”
Listening to these words, Leo’s face was terribly gloomy, and it was obvious that Lydia had also been deceived.
To be able to trick someone like Lydia into it, Monica’s disguise was skillful.
With Zakariya watching, Leo was not worried about Lydia’s safety, he just wanted to uncover the person behind the curtain.
“Spencer Royal Family, Ocean Group …”
Leo mulled over these two clues and without hesitation had to come to the Ocean Group, which is owned by the Spencer family.
The Ocean Group has a branch in Hopkins, but its real headquarters, however, is in Valenham.
After getting an appointment, Leo headed straight to the chairman’s office of Ocean Group.
However, when he pushed the door, he realised that the chairman of Ocean Group was not Ariella, but a woman he did not want to meet.
Cindy.
Cindy, who was reading a document, was startled and looked at Leo who suddenly barged in and turned white with fright.
“Leo?! What are you doing here?”
Leo came towards her with an expressionless face.
Cindy shrieked and stood up directly from her seat, her face full of fear.
“Leo, what are you doing? I’m warning you, this is the Ocean Group, don’t you dare touch me …”
However, the next moment, Cindy fell to the ground with a poof, crying and begging, “What the hell are you doing? I didn’t provoke you during this time, right?”
Leo did not hurt her, but looked at her with a gaze, “I need your help.”
“Need my help?”
Cindy immediately flinched, her face full of incredulity.
There was actually a time when she was asked for help?
Cindy was not afraid all of a sudden, and there was more surprise on her face.
“What is it?”
Since witnessing Leo’s performance at the Crystal Palace that night, Cindy immediately understood what a foolish thing it would be to make an enemy of Leo.
But their relationship has long been overturned, and Cindy would love to use Leo and seize the initiative of the Spencer family, but that’s not possible.
As such, she can only rest on her laurels, never expecting that Leo would take the initiative to come to her.
“Is there a man named Monica among your men?”
Leo questioned in a cold voice.
Looking at Leo’s face, Cindy immediately realised that something was wrong and did not hide it, nodding her head.
“Yes, what’s wrong?”
“She took my wife, you’re her boss, see if you can get her back.”
Without knowing what Monica was going to do yet, Leo would not let Zakariya make a direct move; being gentle was the best option.
“Took your wife? She’s got a lot of nerve!”
Cindy’s heart hung in the air, if this matter was not resolved, Leo would definitely take his anger out on her.
Without Ariella’s hands, Leo could have destroyed her himself.
As she was about to agree to it, Cindy suddenly froze for a moment.
Couldn’t he take this opportunity to improve her relationship with Leo?
Cindy is confident in her looks and body and knows how to tantalise men.
Cindy was less flustered all of a sudden and smiled, “Leo, I can offer help, but you have to promise me one thing.”
“Date with me.”