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“Thomas”

eyes lit

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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.

mention of Cassandra, a wrinkle creased his forehead.

it that Cassandra had been very close to Thomas recently, and they had even eaten out together. Not only that, but

The man looked extremely gloomy as

in a cold voice,

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

stated that he had work to do. With that said, he went upstairs to

in front of the window, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff. His mien was still as

phone and gave Cassandra a holler.

before he hit Taylor up. “Where’s

that out right away,” uttered Taylor.

as icy as the winter, his gaze

as soon as he got the result. “Mrs. Quinn drove to a budget hotel at about 6 p.m.

he felt that something bizarre had happened,

hung up the phone, clenching his phone

a couple of seconds,

sound of a car engine was heard outside. From where he stood, he could clearly

stepped inside, and Graham came out of the dining room.

Orlando?”

upstairs. I’ll go get him, answered

go Cassandra was about to go upstairs, but Rebecca came out of the living. room, bearing

Cassandra scrutinized Rebecca’s face, thinking, “What a pretty face and melodious voice she had. It’s too

attention. It was then that Rebecca added, “Landy has gotten to know what

look at her. “What did I do? Care to shed

Spencer?”

and quickly went on, “Don’t get mad, Landy. Cassandra probably just went to meet her friend and

She looked at Orlando, and both their eyes met. The man averted his gaze lightly and descended the steps with a

He merely dropped that and went

and then immediately caught up with

As for Rebecca, she was quite dissatisfied with the quiet vibe at the moment. She pretended to check her phone and exclaimed, “Oh, my goodness! Cassandra! How could you do

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to Rebecca and did not react.

phone to Orlando. “Check this out, Landy.”

That guy

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