Chapter 1022

Susan lounged in the hotel’s cozy lobby for a while and still hadn’t received Thalassa’s message to let her into Lysander’s room. She became impatient and tired of waiting, especially since she’d indulged in a glass of the drugged wine. Her body was now radiating heat, and every fiber of her being was yearning for Lysander.

Earlier, she had seen Richard holding Joshua and Thalassa supporting Lysander leaving the private room. Susan blended into the crowd and watched them enter the elevator. Her gaze locked onto the numbers climbing until they stopped at the 28th floor.

She noted down in her heart – Lysander was resting on the 28th floor.

Waiting for Thalassa’s text seemed like an eternity, and she was burning with anticipation. She had gone to great lengths, ensuring Lysander drank the spiked wine. If she missed this chance, getting close to him again would be an uphill battle.

Susan’s restlessness got the better of her, and she approached a waiter who had just descended from the elevator, inquiring about the room cards she had delivered.

Richard and Thalassa had headed straight to the 28th floor without collecting their room cards. A little while later, a staff member came down from the same floor. Samantha wasn’t naive; she deduced that the waiter must have delivered them the room cards.

All she needed to do was to ask which room the staff had serviced.

Susan wasn’t one to be deterred. She slipped the staff member a

cash? The waiter surrendered at the sight of

Richard, one for 2806 and another for 2809.” the waiter confessed without

flushed as if drunk, although the heat radiating from within her was from the drug in her body. She was fighting hard to contain the warmth spreading through her body and the itch at the core of her being.

Lysander. She made such a great

for Lysander and Joshua, she signaled her assistant, whom she had brought along, to procure the

well-connected; his girlfriend worked at the hotel reception desk. Getting the room cards was a

time, Susan had the cards in her hand and was rushing to the 28th floor.

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she decided to try her luck. If she inadvertently entered Joshua’s room, she’d simply say Mr. Richard sent her to check in and then

other room would assuredly

selected one of the cards – 2809 – and

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