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.“

curled his lips into a smirk and strode over, then slowly

of Alice’s hands and sternly uttered, ”What are you looking for behind my back? Why don’t you just tell me what

that she could not even form a single sentence. Her mind went

possible… How could this

in the crème brûlée Joshua had eaten. The doctor had told her that this dosage would not harm Joshua but would surely put

into powder and sprinkled it all over Joshua’s crème brûlée. He had eaten not one but two bowls of it, so

them on the coffee table, then sat down

like a dignified and majestic king. His gaze never wavered from Alice

realized that Alice had spiked his food and rummaged through his hotel room while he was out

Blue Bay Villa, Alice had searched through his entire study

for fear of missing out on

asked his employees at Lynch Group Tower, they said the

passed the divorce papers to Luke to safeguard them for

Alice would back off after what happened this afternoon, but contrary

her head furiously.

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