Chapter 352 Drunken Memory Lane
Gwendolyn scowled at the abrupt manner she had been roused and turned to face the other side.
Jonah kept knocking, seemingly intent on hammering down her door if she did not answer it soon.
Irritated by the racket, Gwendolyn flung aside her quilt. She slipped on her slippers and donned a thick sleeping gown before answering the door.
“What does he want this time?” she demanded, glaring at Jonah with a look of irritated disgust.
“Mr. Lund isn’t messing around this time, Ms. Harris. He visited a bar this afternoon and spent the day drinking. He even sent us away. When I went back for him earlier tonight, I found him drunk as a skunk with your name on his lips. So, the only thing I could do was to bring him here to you.”
Gwendolyn was impassive. Cold, even. “Give him something to sober up, then, or get him a doctor who would give him a jab. What good will it do sending him to me? I’m not a doctor.”
She was about to shut the door after her speech, but Jonah threw himself against the frame, “Please see him. He would feel much better in your presence.”
Gwendolyn’s frostiness did not dissipate. “I’m under house arrest because of him. He wouldn’t let me out. of this house. What if he sobers up tomorrow and accuses me of misbehaving? Wouldn’t that be unfair to
me?”
-Uh…”
Jonah was conflicted. He gave the matter a moment of serious thought before suggesting, “Why don’t I bring him to your room?”
“No way! I can’t stand the stench of alcohol on him. You’d better get back to Alzer Palace.”
Jonah fell silent.
“Gwen. Gwen…”
Charles’ voice, slurred by booze and laced with melancholy, traveled up the stairs from the living room. below.
and have a look at him. Ms. Harris. I’ll explain everything to him for you tomorrow. You wouldn’t want him to be keeping you awake. I’m sure.
sighed, doing her best to conceal her irritation. “Wake the maid,” she instructed.
“At once.”
down
gown tighter around her
on the couch. His cheeks were flushed
freshener to mask the stench of alcohol
several times with the sole of
wake him.
night. Get
haze of intoxication receded
voice
in her eyes, she snatched her garment out of his grasp.
“Let go!”
on firmly. He was brutishly
feeling the fury coursing through her head at the thought of seeing Nico covered in blood from the torture that morning
to wake the maid, Jonah
gave him two merciless slaps across his
succession, rang
thoroughly awake. Only then did he loosen his grip on her shirt and sat up
swollen head and stroked his flaming cheeks, tender with pain,
her.
“Gwen?”
with a bold glare. “Are you aware that you’re disrupting my sleep
head, pretending not to hear her. Suddenly, he
the handprints on his cheeks, he looked
act. Get out.
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