Chapter 191

Chapter 191 Kristian Was

Drugged

Tm hurt?" Freya asked.

"A staff member said you fell earlier, and it looked serious." Kristian had come running the moment he got wind of it.

Freya stiffened, then suddenly pieced it all together.

Just as she opened her mouth to tell him, "You've been tricked," the door

slammed shut with a sharp bang. A figure in black-masked, hat pulled low-stood behind it.

The noise snapped Kristian's head around.

In that fleeting instant, something clicked. "You're okay?" he asked.

"I'm fine," Freya replied, her voice as composed as ever.

Hearing that, Kristian's shoulders eased slightly, and he turned back to the door, trying to open it.

(Freya's gaze fixed on the door. If Kristian actually managed to open it, she'd be stunned.

As expected, he yanked at it a few times, but it was sealed tight.

Kristian's brow furrowed. This room was more isolated than the others. Everyone else was downstairs on the first floor. Even if he pounded on the door, no one would hear a thing.

After a beat, he pulled out his phone to call for help-only to find he had no signal. Freya caught on too,

"No signal," Kristian muttered, his face clouding over.

"It's probably that man behind Ashley making his move," Freya said steadily. At most, they'd be stuck in here for two or three hours.

Once the banquet downstairs ended and her father noticed her absence, he'd come looking.

It was just a matter of riding out a few hours in the same space as someone she didn't exactly care for.

Kristian slipped his phone back into his pocket and started searching the room. Freya joined him. No signal meant something was jamming it.

this was the handiwork of that man, the device wouldn't be easy to find.

finding

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the room in focused silence for ten

shrugged off his jacket and loosened the top two buttons of his

the heat refused

then walked over to the air conditioner and lowered the

a faint frown. Was it

minutes crawled

now-something deeper, wilder, more uncontrollable was surging through him.

Wait

realization hit

darkened. He'd been drugged-without

and magnetic, thick with an edge he didn't mean to

watchful. She caught the

Kristian asked, his voice raspier now, as the heat inside him threatened to

Freya blinked.

body had always had a higher tolerance

when she first stepped inside, nothing had felt off-she'd been too focused on

it, and cover your nose and mouth Try not to breathe the

everything,

noticing the flushed

Kristian urged, his voice low,

it out, and slipped it on.

she stepped out,

he was doing, but he stopped just in front of her. His voice was rough almost unfamiliar. "No matter

in."

Freya frowned.

Without waiting for a response, Kristian turned and

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sound of running water echoed through the

instantly understood

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