Alice immediately stiffened when she heard Joshua’s voice suddenly echoing through the silent room.

She must have misheard it; Joshua had eaten the crème brûlée that she spiked with sedatives. How could he possibly have awoken?

This was impossible…

Alice shook her head and continued rifling through Joshua’s clothes.

Alice could no longer convince herself she was mishearing things.

She slowly turned around, feeling as though the joints in her entire body were stiff and rigid. She finally took in the scene behind her.

Joshua, dressed in a pair of gray pajamas, was leaning gracefully against the doorframe. He fixated his gaze on her, a smirk playing on his lips.

Alice felt as though her blood had run cold and her entire body had stiffened.

She opened her mouth but did not manage to say a single word. After a long while, she finally stammered, “Josh…Joshua.“

into a smirk and strode over, then slowly squatted down in

”What are you looking for behind my back? Why don’t you just tell me

she could not even form a single sentence. Her

not possible… How could

Joshua had eaten. The doctor had told her that this dosage would not harm Joshua but would surely put him in a deep sleep

all over Joshua’s crème brûlée. He had eaten not one but two bowls of it, so how could he still be

picked up his clothes, set them on the coffee table,

of the sofa and leaned against the backrest, much like a dignified and majestic king. His gaze never wavered from Alice , who was still frozen in shock, and asked, ”You’re looking for the divorce agreement papers,

spiked his food and rummaged through his hotel room while he was out cold,

Blue Bay Villa, Alice had searched through his entire

fear of missing out on any

he asked his employees at Lynch

heard this, Joshua passed the divorce papers to Luke to safeguard them

thought that Alice would back off after what happened this afternoon, but

shook her head

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