Chapter 3

Samuel’s bodyguards were left utterly bemused.

 

Whenever he sent them out for someone’s head, every single one of them would end up panicking, going down on their knees as they begged for mercy—even wetting themselves, in worst-case scenarios.

 

And yet, this young woman who looked soft and fluffy like pancakes wasn’t panicking at all.

 

Actually… Didn’t she look as if she was looking forward to this?!

 

Still, they did not have time to think as they hurriedly brought Tina back to their car.

 

Once they got in, however, Tina looked around and became a little disappointed. “Wait, why am I alone here?”

 

Weren’t they supposed to bring the rest of the Lynds along?

 

Did her plan somehow fail, and Samuel had decided that he only wanted her head?

 

“Orders from above. Mr. Langford wants to meet you alone.”

 

Tina’s head was already dropping dispiritedly, but those words made her excited again. “Really? I get to meet Mr. Langford? He’s really upset, isn’t he?”

 

Afterwards, she tried to pry more information about Samuel, but the bodyguards were professionally trained and stayed silent throughout, so she had to give up.

 

Clenching her fists ever so discreetly, Tina decided that since she was going to meet Samuel again anyway, she could just try harder.

 

It would be too much of a pity if she died alone. She would only profit immensely if every other member of the Lynd family died with her!

 

***

 

At a private premier hospital owned by the Langfords, Sandy Shaw handed a report to Samuel as he said, “Here’s the report after the checkup, Mr. Langford. It seems that you were drugged with sleeping pills…”

 

“Sleeping pills? Impossible!” Samuel’s brow creased into a deep furrow.

 

memories from last night—that woman had to be using something special

 

got her, Mr. Langford!” a bodyguard announced

 

of whatever tricks she was up to, wouldn’t the

 

that she was going to die when she was shoved inside the hospital

 

so, she was dispirited the instant she

 

have clouded her mind last night—she had ignored the palpable killing intent from the man

 

realized how frightening the man

 

he was doing was standing there and leveling his cold, hawkish gaze at her, and she was already suffocating while

 

Samuel’s disgust towards

 

And now here she was, playing meek and innocent…

 

me with

 

Tina stammered. “It’s something cheap I bought from a nightclub yesterday… I-If you want it, I still have half

 

out a small brown bottle from her

 

of the air around Samuel

 

really had sinister motives.

 

him, Sandy—who knew how much of a clean freak his boss is—promptly took the bottle and had someone take it to a

 

some time, and though Samuel couldn’t wait to kill Tina, he needed to keep her alive before

 

on the couch, he loosened his tie in irritation and

 

muscles hidden beneath his shirt, and

 

Ahem!

 

tried to clear those messy thoughts from her head, but Samuel noticed her stare anyway. “You’d better not get

 

even redder—was she being

 

“I won’t, I won’t…”

 

hear a word of it, so she

 

take responsibility for you—I’ve met too many scheming women

 

not what I’d meant to

 

had come here to die! Or was that not allowed

 

tyrant supposed to kill without so much as

 

Sandy rushed into the lounge. “Sir, the report’s here—the pills

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