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when he heard it. “Why? Aren’t you going to keep putting on a cold facade! Well, since you’re willing to cooperate with me, I’d be more than happy to save my energy. That said, you’d better hurry. I’ve taken the drug and can hardly wait.”

Only then did Cassandra realize that the man had ingested the pills.

T’ll cooperate with you, but don’t hurt me.” She looked slightly indifferent and came off as negotiable.

Thomas agreed and then let go of Cassandra. As he turned to fetch himself some water, Cassandra bolted toward the door, only to be caught by Thomas as soon as she reached for the doorknob.

“Bitch! How dare you trick me?” Thomas lifted his hand and wanted to slap that wretch in the face, but he was intercepted before he could land the slap

Cassandra grabbed his fingers and folded them the other way around with all her strength.

Thomas exclaimed in pain. “You bitch…”

“I’ll give you a chance, so you’d best speak to me nicely, Cassandra warned coldly. Before the man could react, she slowly approached him and lowered her voice, adding, “Tell me, Thomas. Rebecca asked you to deal with me, didn’t she?”

Thomas was sweating in pain. He dared not to say anything but wanted her to let go of him immediately, so he nodded. “Y- Yes, it was her. Ms. Jackson, let me go, please.

Cassandra’s visage changed, and her eyes shone with frostiness. In Thomas‘ eyes, she looked beautiful, but her beauty only sent shivers down one’s spine. On the heels of that, he felt someone kicked him hard in the crotch.

His brain went blank because of the assailing pain. Before he could groan, Cassandra took a needle from her pocket and poked him with it. In just a second, Thomas collapsed to the ground.

However, he did not lose consciousness. Cassandra looked condescendingly at him. “Why don’t we have some fun now?”

Back at Dustmeadow Mansion, Orlando just came home. As soon as he walked inside, Rebecca hurried over. “Bad news, Landy. Something happened.”

“What’s wrong?” asked Orlando,

“I don’t know if I should tell you.” Rebecca pursed her lips and cooed, “It has something to do with Cassandra. I heard it from a friend of Benita.“

Benita White was good friends with Rebecca in the entertainment industry.

the mention of Cassandra, a wrinkle

you hear this, Landy. After all, we don’t know whether it’s true. Word had it that Cassandra had been very close to Thomas recently, and they had even eaten out together.

at Orlando, The man looked extremely gloomy as

cold voice, ‘Don’t flap your gums.”

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Rebecca’s refute. “I’m not. Why don’t you ask Cassandra about it, Landy?”

not make the call. Instead, he pulled a long face and stated that he had work to do. With that said, he went upstairs to his study.

stood in front of the window, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff.

up his phone and gave Cassandra a holler. Sadly, no

before he hit Taylor up.

find that out right away,”

was as icy as the winter, his

call continued, Taylor immediately asked the person who had been following Cassandra. He reported as soon as he got the result. “Mrs. Quinn drove to a budget hotel at about 6 p.m. this evening and hasn’t come out

talked, the more he felt that something bizarre

hung up the phone, clenching his phone in his palm.

a couple of seconds, then sent out a message.

was heard outside. From where he stood,

dining room. “Ah, you’re back, Cassie. It’s time for

Where’s Orlando?” questioned Cassandra.

I’ll go get him, answered

upstairs, but Rebecca came out of

“What a pretty face and

gander was all she took without giving thuch attention. It was then that Rebecca added, “Landy has gotten to know what you did. How shameless you are. I’d never expect you to be such a

squinted slightly and turned to look at her. “What did I do? Care to

Spencer?”

all. Rebecca glanced at the man who was walking downstairs and quickly went on, “Don’t get mad, Landy. Cassandra probably just

looked at Orlando, and both their eyes met. The man averted his gaze

have dinner. He merely dropped that and went straight to the dining room.

beheld Cassandra haughtily and then immediately

Rebecca, she was quite dissatisfied with the quiet vibe at the moment. She

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directed her line of sight to Rebecca and did not

then handed the phone to Orlando. “Check this out, Landy.”

That guy

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