Chapter 8

“Yeah, Phedra, we both did it,” Raizel said, “You can’t just stand there and watch the show.”

“Come on, Raizel. I’m no spring chicken anymore…”

Letitia immediately cut her off, “Look at that. Phedra doesn’t even want to lift a finger!”

While saying this, she secretly tried to wriggle out of the ropes.

Raizel thought Letitia had a point and handed a knife to Phedra. “Alright. You slash the left side, and I’ll handle the right.”

“Deal.” Phedra agreed, “You start cutting, I’ll hold her down so she doesn’t squirm!”

“Got it.”

The two were in perfect cahoots.

Letitia’s wrists were turning red, and the ropes showed no sign of loosening.

Phedra came over to pin her head down. “Don’t play tricks, and it’ll hurt less. This knife isn’t picky! Come on, Raizel, do

it!”

“You’ve got so smooth skin. No wonder you could charm Elgin. I’ll slash it up good today!”

Raizel approached with a wicked grin.

The knife drew closer and closer until it pressed against Letitia’s cheek, its icy chill sending shivers.

“Just a little pressure, and there goes your beauty…”

Letitia swallowed hard with anxiety. “You… you’re not afraid of Elgin?”

“With the Morris family backing me, he won’t hurt me.”

As Raizel was about to cut Letitia’s face, a deep and authoritative voice echoed from afar at that critical moment, “Stop right there!”

That voice sounded familiar!

Letitia’s spirits lifted, and she shouted with all her might, “Elgin, save me!”

The screech of tires on pavement sounded, and before the car had stopped, Elgin was already out and on the move

He came striding over, his suit tails flapping, his face filled with fury.

“The Morris family? What are they?” Elgin’s thin lips curled. “Tomorrow, I can make the whole Morris family vanish from AquaCity!”

“Dear Elgin… Ah!”

straight to Letitia and scooped her

her head. “No, that was close, though.”

off?” Elgin asked, “Can’t you just stay at the Ramirez Group?”

looking for a job when she ran into Phedra and

chose to remain

“I

“Having a

“Yeah

picked up the knife from the ground and threw it at Phedra’s feet.

‘What’

Chapter 8

Raizel stamped her foot. “Why do you always

colder than any

at Letitia with envy all over her face. But Letitia had a bitter truth she couldn’t voice. Elgin was so livid because he was the only person

let anyone else lay a finger on her. It

were just that. It was all empty words she neither took to heart nor dared to believe.

in thought, Elgin had swept her off her feet,

around his neck

of the gesture, she

and indifferently, “Raizel, I’ll discipline you on behalf of the Morris family!

barked her name, “You can forget about your allowance for

a punishment worse

life of luxury, she still received a hefty monthly allowance from the family

was cruel. She was used to living large, and how was she supposed to

money from your dad.”

“Two years!

“Elgin, you… you…”

You’re cut off

Elgin said something, he meant

Raizel were really in for

the butler saw Letitia’s disheveled appearance, “Mrs. Ramirez, are you…”

it actually is, but I

on the sofa, loosening his tie. “Not hurt? What’s that on

that he had

H

Elgin’s gaze bore down on her “I had to punish Phedra

quickly waved her hands.

to touch your face. If

drifted to the fruit knife on the coffee table.

back a

are you spacing out for? Can’t you take

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