True Love Waits

Chapter 280 A Life-Or-Death Situation

Debbie was lost in her complicated thoughts when Zelda dropped by to give her an invitation. "Mrs. Huo, Mr. Huo was afraid that you might be bored at home and asked me to give you the invitation to a tea party held by the wife of a high-ranking official."

Ignoring what Zelda had said, Debbie grabbed her hand and asked anxiously, "Why is Carlos' phone switched off?"

With an embarrassed smile, Zelda answered, "I have no idea either, Mrs. Huo. Maybe his battery is dead."

"Tell me the truth!"

Zelda sighed helplessly, "Mrs. Huo, I really have no clue. I'm not Mr. Huo's personal assistant. My answer will be the same even if you ask me another ten times."

Seeing her sincere expression, Debbie gave up. "All right. Thanks. Bye, Zelda," she said in a hushed voice.

Zelda bade her goodbye and drove off.

Looking at the invitation in her hand, Debbie puckered her mouth. She was in no mood to go to the party. She knew that the guests would be a bunch of gossiping women who would act all elegant and aloof or the surface.

Kasie, however, liked to attend these kinds of parties. So Debbie called her and offered, "Hi Kasie. Carlos' assistant, Zelda, just brought me an invitation to a tea party. Would you like to go?" "A tea party? Is it Mrs. Jiang's?"

Debbie took a closer look and saw the name on the invitation. "Yep."

"Yeah! I'll go! Why don't you go along with me? Mrs. Jiang is really fond of holding parties, and she hires Michelin star chefs to prepare the food. Come on, foodie! Join me!" Kasie said in a cheerful tone. Debbie was not at all in a good mood because of Carlos' sudden disappearance. She told Kasie in a low voice, "If it weren't for Carlos' injury, I would've already been on a flight to England. I'm in no mood for some stupid tea party." She hated mingling with those hypocrites. She was afraid that she might end up having a row with some of them.

Kasie didn't give up. "Come on. If you stay at home alone, you will get more and more dejected. Just ask Zelda if she can give you an extra invitation. We can attend the party together. If she can't, then you'll have to go alone."

Sighing in defeat, Debbie agreed to accompany her.

Zelda soon came back, holding another invitation with Kasie's name on it.

That evening, Debbie and Kasie arrived at the tea party together. She gave Kasie one of the invitations.

the first floor of a building. The building also had hotel rooms on

guard at the entrance of the tea house. Debbie gave him the invitation. It was only then that she noticed the invitation in her hand had Kasie's

so she didn't give much thought to

from head to toe when he saw the name on her invitation. But Debbie didn't notice

house. Just as Debbie had expected, the party

to

she

they chatted over tea. After a while, Mrs. Jiang bade Debbie

the food section where Kasie was busy tasting different dishes. "Kasie, how's

Here, taste this!" Kasie fed her a macaroon from the

indeed. It's not too sweet." They sat together, eating

to join them. She was

Portia, who was as arrogant as ever. Neither of them

the food section, Kasie was

phone was out of range. It was weird because Debbie had seen Kasie playing on her phone

looked everywhere, but to no avail. She got anxious and began to ask people about Kasie's whereabouts, but no one

had a bad feeling-like something horrible had happened to Kasie. As

kept herself glued to the food section. She was stuffed after eating all those snacks, and the scented

the ladies' room, and she saw a tall

pay much attention to her

thing she knew, the woman grabbed her from

get out for a while,

bed. She struggled to open her eyes, but there was no lighting in the room. Too sleepy, she

wanted to cry out for help, but she had no strength left. And her body felt like it

she heard someone

wanted to look who it was, but

heard some rustling of clothes, a person pressed against her. She wanted to struggle and yell, but she was too weak to