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.

 

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

 

got her, Mr. Langford!” a bodyguard announced outside the

 

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

 

to die when she was shoved inside the hospital

 

dispirited

 

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

 

however, she realized how frightening the man could be as he stood

 

standing there and leveling his cold, hawkish gaze at her, and she was already suffocating while her legs turned to

 

fear, Samuel’s disgust

 

impressive last night? And now here she was, playing meek and

 

you drug me with

 

don’t know…” Tina stammered. “It’s something cheap I bought from a nightclub yesterday… I-If

 

out a small brown bottle from her pocket

 

Samuel turned sub-zero. Something

 

sinister motives. How

 

of a clean freak his boss is—promptly took

 

though Samuel couldn’t wait to kill Tina, he needed to keep her alive before he had viable

 

he loosened his tie in irritation and undid several buttons, making

 

knew the robust muscles hidden beneath his shirt,

 

Ahem!

 

Samuel noticed her stare

 

redder—was she being

 

“I won’t, I won’t…”

 

but Samuel wouldn’t hear a word of it, so she started tentatively again,

 

take responsibility for you—I’ve met

 

I’d

 

come here to die! Or was that not allowed

 

tyrant supposed to kill without so much as a

 

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

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