William returned to the room while laughing. “Get up! Stop acting!”
Michael struggled to get up as he felt his head pound and his whole body ache. “D*mn it! That b*stard Richard, how dare he hit me? I’ll make him pay!”
“Save it. Do you want to lose Abbie? If you’d dared do anything to Richard, Abbie would never forgive you.”
“Sh*t! So I should just suck it up? I didn’t even do anything! If I had known that this would happen, I should’ve just did what I wanted to Abbie.” Michael was exasperated.
William laughed at him mockingly. “If you had dared to, you would have already lost your head. You should just go home and tend to those wounds of yours right now. You can think about what to do after that.”
Then, Marcus called for someone to bring Michael to a hotel room to rest. Meanwhile, William put his arms around Valeria and grinned. “Honey, why don’t we just stay in the Wolf Group in the future. What do you think?”
“Okay! I have always wanted to stay in the suite here! So we don’t have to return home anymore?” Valeria asked excitedly.
“When everything is over, we’ll still have to go home. But for now, we should stay here first. But if you like, I’ll reserve the suite for you permanently.”
“Marrying a rich husband does have its perks! Let’s ignore Raymond and the rest and go up to our room now!”
“I was thinking the exact same thing!” William put his arm around her waist and took the VIP lift up to the suite.
Valeria knew that it was going to be luxurious, but her jaw dropped when she walked in.
“Honey, this is so much better than the rooms I saw on the introductory list.”
“Of course. This is specially designed for you, and it is my personal room, too. It is definitely better than all the other rooms.”
“Wow! I never want to go home anymore!” Valeria said as she took a spin from the dining room to the study room. Then, she entered the second bedroom and the servant’s room. At last, she walked into the master bedroom.
“Oh my God, this bed is my favorite!”
She jumped onto the bed immediately and rolled around like an excited child at a candy store. “William, did you prepare this bed for me?”
“That’s right!”
“I love you so much!” After a few more rolls on the bed, she got up and entered the bathroom. The luxury of the bathroom made her eyes bulge as she exclaimed, “What a big tub! I’ll definitely have a bubble bath here!”
“Alright! Your husband would gladly join you.” Valeria was so happy that it made William smile adoringly too.
“I don’t need you to join me. I can enjoy it myself.” Valeria knew exactly what William meant.
“What’s the fun in playing alone? Besides, I told you that I would reward you tonight, right? Let’s start now!” William moved to take off his clothes as he said this.
After two hours of steaming intimacy, William was as satisfied as ever, but on the other hand, Valeria’s lower back was aching so much that it felt as if it was about to snap.
William carried Valeria’s limp body back to the bed that she liked and she fell asleep almost instantly.
Seeing her this peaceful, William kissed her gently and pulled the sheets over her.
Then, he changed his clothes and poured himself a glass of wine. Just as he took his first sip, the doorbell rang.
Once William opened the door, he saw Bobby standing there with blood splattered all over his shirt.
Seeing that Bobby was covered in blood, William was shocked. “What happened? Are you hurt? Who did this?”
“It’s okay, Mr. Howard. Don’t worry about me, it’s nothing serious. I’ll be fine.” Bobby said with a smile as if it were nothing.
However, hearing him say this did not make William less worried. Bobby had been by his side for so many years and he was like a brother to him. “You are covered in blood right now, how could you be fine! Let’s go, I’ll take you to the hospital.”
“There’s no need, sir. I had a small accident, and it’s just a small cut. If it were something serious, I wouldn’t be able to come to you. Anyway, I have something important to tell you.”
“Whatever it is, put it aside. Come in, I’ll help you clean your wound.” He could tell that Bobby was hurt quite badly, so he insisted on fixing his wounds first. Then, he disinfected the wounds on his arm and bandaged them.
“Are you hungry? Do you want to eat anything? I can get someone to send some food up.”
“There’s no need for that, sir. I have something to tell you. Is Madam asleep?”
“Yeah! She’s asleep. Let’s talk in the study.”
William and Bobby closed the door as soon as they entered the study room. Once they sat down, Bobby lowered his voice.
“Sir, as I was following Lamont and Archer today, Archer went to the cemetery first and stayed there for a while. Then, he and Lamont went to Lucian’s house.”
“Was it Lamont who hurt you?” William interrupted.
“No, it was someone else.”
“Who was it?” William had thought that Lamont was the one who hurt Bobby, but he didn’t expect that it would be someone else.
“I don’t know.” Bobby shook his head and continued.
“Archer and Lamont were there for about 40 minutes. I was afraid that he would find out that I was following him, so I stopped. But I found out something strange while I was there. About 15 minutes later after they left, a woman walked out of Lucian’s house.
“A woman? Does that mean that the person that Archer met was this woman, and not Lucian?” William asked further.
“I couldn’t get close enough to find out whether it was that woman that Archer had met. But the woman was very strange, though. It was already dark outside, but she still wore sunglasses and a hat. Not a single strand of hair was revealed. It was really odd.
Upon hearing Bobby’s description, William was deep in thought. Archer went to meet Lucian, but a mysterious woman walked out of her house? What could this be about?”
“What happened after that? You followed her and had a fight with her?
“As I saw how strange that woman was, I followed her. But I was too careless, and I didn’t expect her to be so tough. She must have found out I was tailing her and she didn’t show me any mercy.”
“She asked someone to beat you up?” The injury on him didn’t look like it was from a fight. With Bobby’s skills, he could easily break a person’s arm if he were attacked. So it must have been something else that did this to him.
Bobby shook his head and said, “No, she didn’t. But when I was almost near Stuckeyville, a large truck came out of nowhere and it headed straight towards me at full speed. Luckily, I was fast enough to swerve to the side, or else, I would have been smashed to bits. But because I swerved off the road, I ended up in some bushes and got hurt. When I got off the car, the truck had already left, and that woman I was tailing was nowhere to be seen.
As he heard Bobby’s explanation, William’s eyes were filled with fury. “Who was that cruel? Who the hell is that woman?”
Bobby shook his head and said, “I don’t know, sir. That’s why I’m here to tell you this. She knows that I’ve been following her. If she finds out about my identity, she might suspect you as well. You have to think of something to settle this.”
“Alright, I understand. You should go take a good rest. I’ll think about it.”
Then, Bobby went to his bedroom to take a rest, but William stayed in the study and lit up a cigarette. He was lost in thought.
Who could that woman, who appeared out of nowhere, be?