William did not know the answer to Archer’s question. Gavin, Archer, Raymond, and Valeria were all part of the Saunders family, however, none of them were of vicious nature like Raelyn.
Was she not part of the family? However, William quickly dismissed this ridiculous idea since she was the apple of Gavin’s eyes not long ago.
What was the real reason? Was it because Devon and Declan used a vermin on her?
Could a vermin change a person’s personality? He did not understand, so there was no other choice but to let nature take its course. After talking to Archer, they returned to the private room together.
In the private room, Richard and Michael were dissatisfied after being toasted with so many drinks, and they immediately came up to William to force him to drink with them.
William happily accepted their toasts, while Michael and Richard drank with him even though their alcohol tolerance wasn’t the best.
The room was full of chatter and laughter until people started to leave one after another after 11 o’clock.
Richard and Michael were wasted and stayed at the hotel instead.
William was in a better condition compared to them, but he drank much more than his usual amount, so he walked around with staggered footsteps.
He forced himself to send Gavin, Archer, and Natalie to the elevator door and went back to his room.
After entering the room, he threw himself onto the big bed. This was the first time Valeria saw him like this, and she was worried that he would have a headache when he woke up, so she had someone prepare some soup to sober him up.
She used a wet towel to wipe his face and hands as he was in a drunken state of unconsciousness.
The soup was delivered to the room, and she nudged him and said, “Honey, get up and drink some soup before you go to sleep.”
He muttered, “You don’t have to worry about me, I’ll just sleep it out!”
“Okay, just drink this before sleeping.”
He finally sat up and downed the soup. Then, he closed his eyes and laid down again. Valeria was at a loss for what to do since this was her first time experiencing his drunken state.
She thought that people usually spewed nonsense when they were drunk, but William had no other symptoms other than extreme sleepiness.
Since he was drunk, she was worried and had the urge to take care of him, but Bobby came in and said, “Leave him to me. You can go and rest, Miss Valeria.”
For the child in her belly, she did not insist and left to rest in the other room.
Richard and Michael were respectively sent to the guest rooms by Marcus and Andrew. After Marcus sent Richard to the guest room, Richard opened his eyes and said, “Marcus, do me a favor and bring Braelynn here!”
“Braelynn? Mr. Clark, did you drink too much?” He asked in reply.
“A little bit too much, but it’s not to the point where I don’t know what I’m doing. Help me lure Braelynn over and I’ll give you some benefits.”
“I… I dare not do that, she is close to Miss Brown. If you mess with her, I’ll be dead if people found out that I brought her to you!”
“Are you more afraid of William or Valeria? I’m telling you, if you don’t help me, I’ll mess with you in front of William, help me and I’ll reward you greatly. Oh, and don’t worry about Valeria! She’ll be alright as long as William comforts her.”
Seeing that Marcus was still hesitant, he reached out and pushed him. “Hurry up and get her, I’m not bluffing you! William knows everything about me going after Braelynn!”
Marcus listened to his words and did not refuse anymore, “Okay, but I’m really bad at lying. How should I lure her over?”
Richard squinted and handed his phone to him, “Call Braelynn and tell her that I’m drunk and can’t find my cell phone. Then, ask her if she has seen my cell phone.”
“Will this trick her into coming up here?” Marcus asked.
“Let’s see what she says. If she says that my cell phone is in the private room, you can say that you already checked, but you couldn’t find it and ask her to come up to help you. As long as she is willing to come up, you can make up an excuse that you have something to do and ask her to bring my cell phone to me. You don’t need to worry about other things, I will handle it myself.”
Marcus thought to himself, “No wonder he’s my boss’ friend, they’re all tricky and cunning people.”
It was very obvious that Richard wanted to take advantage of Braelynn. However, she was not an ordinary person, Marcus heard from William that she was good at martial arts.
He reminded Richard, “I have to remind you that Braelynn is good at martial arts, don’t go too far or you’ll hurt yourself instead!”
Of course, Richard already knew that she was good at martial arts. “Yes, I already knew that. Just lure her here and stop worrying about other things!”
Marcus was relieved to hear him say that. He was used to doing tasks in accordance with William’s orders, and his calculations were always accurate, so he wondered if Richard’s calculation would be the same as William’s.
Anyways, all he had to do was call her. Whether Richard would succeed or not and whatever happened was none of his business.
He picked up his phone and called Braelynn, “Ms. Saunders, you haven’t left yet, right?”
“No, I’m still in the parking lot, what’s wrong?” She asked.
“Mr. Clark drank too much and couldn’t find his cell phone, have you seen it?” Marcus asked according to Richard’s plan.
“His cell phone? Isn’t it in the private room? I sort of remembered seeing him putting it on a chair,” she answered after thinking for a moment.
“Which chair? I couldn’t find it, can you come back and help me?”
She agreed, and he immediately placed Richard’s cell phone on the chair he sat on just now.
After she came over, she looked for the place where Richard was sitting and found it under the chair, “Mr. Field, his cell phone is here.”
“Oh?” He said, “I couldn’t find it even after looking for so long, but you found it as soon as you came up! Thank you, Ms. Saunders.”
As he spoke, his mobile phone rang. He picked it up and said, “Ms. Saunders, could you please send the phone to Mr. Clark for me? I have something urgent that I need to deal with right now, thank you!”
Braelynn agreed innocently and took the phone to Richard’s room. The door was unlocked, so she pushed it open and went in. The living room was lit, but Richard was nowhere to be found.
She hesitated for a moment and called out his name, “Mr. Clark! Mr. Clark!”
Without getting a reply, she went near his bedroom and peeked inside. There he was, lying motionless on the floor of the bedroom.
She was shocked and thought that something had happened to him, so she quickly walked in and reached out to help him up.
He pretended to faint, not moving a muscle when she tried to support him, and he even subtly leaned his body against her.
She was a girl after all, so it was very difficult for her to support him, and it took her a lot of effort to help him get up, but she fell down after he leaned into her on purpose.
Coincidentally, Richard fell on top of her when they fell down, and she froze when their lips met as she looked up.