True Love Waits

Chapter 290 Please Let Her Go

Carlos' words sent a shiver down Portia's spine. Engulfed by fear, she struggled to break free from the bodyguards, and screamed in a hysterical voice, "Mr. Huo, what do you want from me? Let go of me!" With his eyes shut, Carlos asked casually, "Miss Gu, that's exactly what I should be asking you. What did you want with my wife, huh? What were you thinking, trying to drug my wife and her friend?" With those words, he opened his eyes and shot a sharp glance at the trembling Portia. "You had the guts to lay a finger on my wife! How dare you?!" he shouted between gnashed teeth.

"No, I didn't... I didn't..." Frightened by his icy-cold stare and the dangerous aura, Portia could hardly find her voice. She kept stammering, "I didn't..."

Carlos sneered and ordered to the bodyguards, "Deal with her. Enjoy yourselves."

Knowing that Portia was the daughter of the Gu family, Valerie didn't want her grandson to act rashly just for Debbie's sake. So she tried to persuade him, "Carlos, she's a girl. Don't do this..." Clutching at her last straw of survival, Portia looked towards Valerie with her teary eyes and pleaded desperately, "Mrs. Valerie Huo, please help me..."

Carlos smirked at his grandmother. "She...is a girl? Then what about my wife and her friend? Aren't they girls too? Grandma, since you have enough mercy to spend on an irrelevant person, why don't you give a little thought to my wife, your own granddaughter-in-law?" he snapped, sounding sarcastic.

Shocked by his strong retort, Valerie took a quick step backwards.

Shifting his gaze back to Portia, he ordered angrily, "Take her out. Now!"

"Yes, Mr. Huo!" the three bodyguards answered together.

In an instant, they forcibly dragged Portia towards the door. Knowing that Carlos was not joking, she struggled to turn her head around and shouted in a panic-stricken voice, "Megan! It was Megan who told me that Debbie would be attending the tea party!"

Caught off guard, Megan's heart skipped a beat.

keeping silent this whole time, afraid that Carlos' white hot rage would be directed

shaky voice, "Uncle Carlos, no...I had nothing to do with this. I'm not even familiar with

madly rushed back to the living room, and pointed at Megan, who was standing close to Valerie for her safety. "It was her! She told me that you were not in Y City that day, and that Debbie would attend the tea party with her friend!" she said

day, Portia had seen the message which Megan had sent in the

pulled out her phone and walked over to Carlos. She explained, "I just casually sent a message in a WeChat group, saying that Aunt Debbie would be attending the tea party. I didn't personally talk to her, nor did I mean any

message from that day and showed it to Carlos. Indeed, Megan had only written a few words. It said, "I heard that Mrs. Huo was also invited to the tea party!" Carlos moved his sharp eyes away from the phone and

her head, unable to find the words to defend herself. The only thing she could do now was deny everything. Otherwise

was written all over her face. She decided to spill everything, hoping that Carlos wouldn't

the room waited for her

moment, the doorbell rang again and a person slowly walked into the living room. Since she was at the point of collapsing, Portia didn't notice the person who had come in and continued to confess in a trembling voice, "I did it. I wanted to drug Debbie, but... those stupid men got them confused with each other and drugged Kasie instead. Kasie came to the party with Debbie's invitation card and they mistook her

plan. At a previous party, Portia had heard from someone that Lewis had been coveting Carlos' wife for too long. He had been desiring for her and even had gone so far as to climb onto Debbie's bed.

inform him that there was a chance for him to have sex with Debbie. As expected, Lewis, who had lost his job and had been idly hanging around the streets, immediately agreed and hurried to

room, the lights were off and he was so excited that he didn't take a closer look at the woman's face. He simply believed that it was Debbie. So, after turning on the video camera he took

Debbie barged into the

he noticed that the woman under him was not Debbie,

by Debbie, and Kasie was taken to

was being taken away by the police, he made a phone call to pull some strings. Finally, he was exempted from

more and more uneasy as he thought back to what he had done. So in no time, he bought a ticket and flew to France. Tragically for him, he had hardly

at the manor, awaiting

Hayden's upset voice boomed across the living room. He