Fia held Conrad’s arm tightly with refusal all over her face.He bent over to kiss her forehead and pulled her hand away.“Don’t worry, Fia. Wait for my return.”Fia sniffed. She didn’t raise her hand to grab his sleeve as she cried.Silas took a few steps after him before Conrad roared at him. “Go back and take good care of my wife or I’ll break your leg!”“…but sir!”“You’ve worked for me for years now. You know how I am!”Silas gritted his teeth and nodded.“Silas, I don’t need you here. Find someone to get him out of there!” Fia said with a firm expression on her face.Silas hesitated and said, “Don’t worry, madam. He’ll come back in one piece.”“I don’t need you to take care of me!”“Please, madam. Don’t make this hard on me. You know how he is, right? If I go against his direct orders, he is going to fire me.”Fia’s expression turned sour. “Since when has he ever suffered something like this?! He was well-taken care of since he was little!”Silas was stunned. He real
“Ah!”The woman screamed out in pain. Conrad let go and she knelt down in front of him.It was at this time that the light was suddenly turned on and he saw who it was.“It’s you?”Esme knelt in front of him with a pitiful expression on her face.“You almost killed me just now, Conrad.”There were terrifying fingerprints around her long, pale neck.Conrad frowned and said, “I didn’t know it was you.”He looked around the room and realized that it was the same room that Fia was in before. It also had a washroom.However, why did they lock him up together with Esme?“Is there something you want to tell me?” His voice was cold.“I… I didn’t know who came in just now. I just wanted to move to the door. I didn’t know you were there either.”“You didn’t know?” Conrad looked at her in disbelief. “You didn’t know or did you deliberately get close to me?”“Conrad, how can you think that of me? I’m not that wicked,” Esme said, still kneeling on the ground as carefully grabbed Conrad
“Hi, Fia. How are you doing lately?”“Where did you get that picture!” Fia angrily asked.Priscilla laughed. “What? Anxious?”“How did the two of them get together?!”“Make a guess?”“Priscilla, what are you up to?!”“I would like to invite you to come and watch a stream with me. How about it?”Fia had just wanted to say yes, but she remembered what Silas told him before he left.“I’m sorry. Not interested!”“Really, now? Isn’t it because you’re injured and he can’t touch you, so he can only find someone else outside?”“He’s not someone like that!” Fia was so angry that her chest was hurting.“Oh, right. I heard you had a miscarriage and lost your child. How very sad. Despite being so careful in the interrogation room, you still encountered something terrible as soon as you stepped outside.“Oh, am I not supposed to say something about this? Fia, it’s not that I want to criticize you, but it seems like even the gods can’t let you simply steal someone else’s boyfriend. That’
“Silly girl. Why are you so worried? Conrad’s a man. If he doesn't want to, no one can force herself on him, right?”“Eileen, you didn’t know what happened. She’s drugged him before. If she had increased the dose…”The more Fia thought about it, the more worried she became.Eileen became serious and said, “Why not get someone else to visit him?”“Who? Who can visit him?”About twenty minutes later, at the police station.Jason walked into the station wearing his coat and carrying a medical kit.“I want to see Conrad Maxwell!”When the officer responsible for registration saw Jason, he said, “He’s not available to be visited as he’s our prime suspect for a case.”Jason slammed the medical kit on the table and said, “I’m his attending physician and I’m telling you that he has severe gastrointestinal perforation! Without treatment, he’ll die from shock and bleeding at any time! Also, he had just been injured a few hours ago by a pedicab and he has severe external and internal inj
“What? Not happy to see me?” Jason sneered. “Unfortunately, it’s not up to you to choose.”Conrad glared at him with wide eyes and yelled angrily, “Scram!”The hand that was holding the cigarette was trembling.Jason snorted coldly and swayed the medical kit in his hand.“Scram, huh? You better think twice because no one can save you now other than me.” Jason sneered again. “The interrogation room’s door is just too tough. No one can hear you scream, and you can’t break it apart too. To the point that you must run into the washroom. How sad, Mr. Maxwell.”Conrad choked. He got tricked.He hadn’t noticed the scent from the very beginning. By the time he realized that the drugs were already working on him, he had lost half his strength. How could he have broken down the door?“Where’s Fia? Does she know…?” Before he could finish, he saw a woman in a pink nurse uniform walking in.He could feel the flame burning inside of him as his eyes turned from slightly red to a bloody red.
“What picture?”Fia took out her phone and walked over to show it to him.When Conrad saw the picture, he was full of disgust.“Who sent it to you?”“Even you feel disgusted when it’s you in the picture. Outsiders will only get more ideas out of this,” Fia whispered. “I really hate to see both of you in the same picture, even if nothing happened.”Conrad could only stare at Fia with a frown.“Once this is over, can we just send her away?”“Send her away?” Fia cracked a smile. “After what she did to me, she will be punished to the full extent of the law!“Oh, Conrad. Did your heart soften again? Did she beg you just now? Maybe she cried and sobbed?”Conrad frowned and said, “She didn’t. Can you please not think that I’m that weak?”“I want to, but I can’t control my own brain.” Fia forced a smile. “Take care.”Fia had just left the interrogation room when she met up with Silas.“Oh, why are you here, madam?!” Silas’s expression immediately changed. ‘Did she find out?’“Your
“…” Fia was completely confused. However, a car honk could be heard. When she saw Jason roll down the car window, she quickly ran over.Finn’s eyes followed Fia as she got into the car and then went to Jason who was driving, and his smile became even wider.Jason nodded to him before rolling up the car window.“Evans, he said that he’s the director! Is he joking? Since when is a director so free?”Jason chuckled. “Then you’ll be disappointed. He is indeed the director. He just got appointed.”“What?”“What is it?”“But he’s so strange. He came to talk to me and asked me some questions!”Fia didn’t understand what was happening. “Why would a director like him speak to a commoner like me?”Jason was also quite confused, but he said honestly, “Mr. Parker is a good officer. Gryphon needs to get rid of all the corrupt officials. The duty he’s been given is quite heavy.”“You know him?”“My dad does.” Jason paused. “The reason that I was able to see you together with Eileen last t
Finn placed his hands behind his back with a detaching expression on his face. “We can forget about the formalities. I’m here to personally make things right.”Conrad didn’t get angry because he refused to shake his hand. Most of those who became officials had their own quirks.Finn glared at the woman tied to the bed who was letting out shameless sounds.“We’ll continue this somewhere else.” With that, he took out a strip of pills from his pocket and gave it to his assistant. “Feed the woman.”“Of course, sir!” The assistant looked at Conrad. He was not as retrained as the director. “Mr. Maxwell, originally the director had prepared this for you.”Conrad was stunned before thanking him sincerely. “Thank you.”“Go now!” Finn said to his assistant in a harsh tone before waving at Conrad. “This is now my area of responsibility. I have the duty to see things through now that something like this has happened. I will do what I can.”They then went to the meeting room. Finn sat in t