Summer did not believe a single word Leonardo said.
Suddenly Leonardo said, “I’ll be very busy of late, contact Carl if there’s anything.”
“What are you busy with?” Summer was a little surprised. “Was it because of the plummeting of Emerson Corporation’s stock price?”
Leonardo glanced sideways at her, and Summer waited for her answer, but in the end, he leaned over to kiss her.
“Emerson…” Summer leaned back, as she tried to avoid his kiss.
Leonardo backed away slightly and stretched his hand out to pull his tie, as he verbalized his words with hidden intent. “The beds in the Golden Cauldron’s guest room are all ordered from overseas and are extremely comfortable. Want to give it a try?”
Summer’s face turned slightly red and pushed him away. “I’m going back!”
Leonardo was defenselessly pushed onto the sofa.
He simply just lay on the sofa and said with a slothful, roguish voice, “Are you sure you don’t wanna try it out?”
What responded to him as the loud bang of a door being slammed shut.
Only after Summer had left, did the expression on Leonardo’s face fade away.
He rolled over and sat up, as he pulled out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit one up.
…
Summer drove home raving mad.
She had thought that something had happened to Leonardo, but in the end, he still was as shameless as usual.
Summer remembered that there were no more fruits in the fridge, so she stopped halfway to buy some fruits to bring back home.
When she carried the fruits and entered her apartment, everything was still normal.
The moment she put the fruits into the refrigerator and took a banana out, a man wrapped in her bath towel suddenly stepped out of her bedroom.
Summer was so shocked that she immediately took two steps back. “Who… Who are you?”
Although she had tried to maintain a calm facade, her stuttering still betrayed her panic at that moment.
When a woman like her who lived alone came back in the evening only to see a stranger walking out of her room, looking like he had just taken a shower with her bath towel wrapped around his lower extremities…
Even if she was a problem girl who had fought before, this still confounded her.
The man strode out on his long legs and lowered his head to look at her. “Don’t you recognize me anymore?”
The man stood before her, and was much, much taller than her. His height was about the same as Leonardo’s, and he had a very handsome look.
His entire lower body was only covered by a bath towel, and what did not match his appearance was the various scars covering his upper body, and looked rather menacing.
There were water droplets on his body, exuding a faint air of a cold bath, and it was obvious that he had just taken a cold shower.
The perverted man had snuck into her house late in the night, showered in her bathroom, and used her towel to wrap himself up!
Summer’s alarm bells rang loud, and the moment he approached, she quickly ran to the kitchen and took a kitchen knife, as she shouted with a vigilant expression. “Don’t come close!”
The height of the man was similar to Leonardo, and his body had the physique of a trained fighter, if he was to charge at her, she might not be able to fight him off.
Summer stared at him, lest he would make any movements that would harm her while her other hand quietly reached into her pocket to pull her phone out.
Seeing her movements, the man smiled and said to himself, “Seems like you don’t recognize me anymore, then let me reintroduce myself. I’m Stanley.”
As he said that, he held one of his hands out towards Summer, the smile on his face stayed there, and looked seemingly harmless.
To hell with that harmlessness.
Could any normal person sneak into the house of a living-alone woman and showered at her place like Stanley?
Summer had touched her phone, as she turned slightly to the side, to not let Stanley see that she was pulling her phone out, and kept silent all the way.
However, that man’s movements were much faster than she had expected.
Summer could not even see how he moved, and only felt her wrist hurt, and the knife in her hand was snatched away by him.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her forcibly toward him. Summer’s strength was no match for him, and could only be very passively pulled over.
The moment Summer got close, she instinctively kneed him in the nuts brutally.
“Ughhhh…” Stanley gasped in pain.
He raised his brow slightly, and no one could tell if it was anger or laughter in his vivid eyes. “You’re the first woman who has managed to clobber me there.”
Summer did not care about clobbering him there and took the chance to escape outside. As she did so she put her hand into her pocket to grab her phone.
But her pocket was empty.
She immediately turned back and saw Stanley putting an arm before his chest, and another was holding onto her phone.
Stanley waved her phone about. “Looking for this?”
As he said that, he brought the phone before him, and looked at her contact list one by one as he read their names. “Leonardo, Special Assistant Tim, Carl, Jessica, Eliza… There are two names that are very familiar here.”
As he said that, he looked up at Summer, and an explicable glow shone in his eyes.
Summer now understood that Stanley was not some perverted thief that had snuck into her room, if he wanted to do her harm, she would not have been given any chance to escape.
His movements were quick, he and could talk her cell phone off her without her noticing it. He was definitely not an ordinary person.
Summer stood by the door and looked at him very calmly. “Who are you exactly? Why did you come looking for me?”
“I’m Stanley Bates. It was too much of a rush back then, so I didn’t have the time to tell you my name,” he said as he turned around and used her phone to take a selfie. “But you don’t have to introduce yourself to me. I know that you are Summer, and Leonardo is your ex-husband…”
The vigilance on Summer’s face grew. “How do you know me?”
“You’ve been trending for the past two to three days, it’s impossible to not know about you.” The moment Stanley said that, he looked at the selfie he took. “Not bad, I’m rather photogenic, so are you. I can send this photo to your friend circle…”
Wait, photo…
Stanley was taking a selfie earlier, and he only wrapped her bath towel around his waist, and she was included in the shot!
Now he wants to send the picture over to her friend circle!
Summer closed her eyes and strode forward. “What are you snapping for?! Give me my phone back!”
“Wait a minute, I haven’t sent it yet…” Stanley held the phone up high, and with Summer being much shorter than him, she could not grab the phone from him.
With him only wrapped in a bath towel around his waist, Summer dared not even touch him.
Summer could tell now, that this man had purposely come looking for her, while she had no idea what his purpose was, she felt that she should leave first.
Upon seeing Summer leaving, Stanley stopped her. “Don’t you want your phone? Aren’t you afraid of me sending this to your friend circle?”
“It’s up to you.” Summer had walked up to the door and opened it.