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Chapter 59
Chapter 59
Chapter 59
Chapter 59
Stroking his chin, he mused, “Could it be that someone dropped their body
wash as they passed by and it spilled
right on your doorstep, and you were
unlucky enough to step in it?”
Narrowing her eyes, she answered, “Maybe, but the chances don’t sound too high.”
“Why do you say so?”
Tilting her head slightly at him, Sonia
answered, “Because I didn’t hear the sound of anything falling while I was taking a bath.”
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Which was to say someone stealthily
and deliberately placed the body wash
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in front of her door
Instantly, Charles stood up. “Then it has to be Tina. She and Toby are our only two enemies at this resort and since he couldn’t possibly enter the ladies’ room, that leaves only her.”
Sonia’s hand that was resting on the blanket clenched. “You’re right. When
you called me last evening, she happened to be nearby. She must have heard me say that I was hitting the showers and followed me in.”
As Charles’ chest rose and fell
dramatically with rage, he pulled his
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cell phone out of his pocket, snarling,
“What a poisonous snake that woman
is! We have to make a police report, We must! We can’t let this go just like that!”
However, Sonia stopped him and she
pointed out, “There’s no use. It’s not like there’s surveillance in the shower
room. We have no way of proving that
she planted the body wash. Even if tests revealed that the body wash on the floor is the kind she uses, she could lie and say she spilled it by accident. She wouldn’t be found guilty
at all.”
Frowning tightly, he grumbled, “So, if
this isn’t an option, what should we
do?”
After a moment of thought, she
proposed, “Unless we can get a recording of her admitting to deliberately harming me, all of our efforts will amount to nothing.”
“That won’t be easy.” With a sinister
smile, he continued, “But I can have someone threaten her while wearing a wire. She’ll fall for it.”
Sonia’s eyes brightened but right as
she was about to reply, the doorbell
rang.
“Who is it?” Charles grumbled as he
went toward the door.
Upon opening it, he discovered Toby
and Tina standing outside.
“Mr. Lane” Tina greeted with a slight
smile.
Instantly, Charles’ face fell and he asked without ceremony, “What do you
want?”
Meeting his gaze squarely, Toby explained, ‘We’re looking for Sonia. Is she here?”
Given the fact that Charles’ outfit was the same as the previous evening, that proved he spent the night in Sonia’s
room.
At the thought of Charles and Sonia
*alone in a room together, Toby’s gaze
darkened and he felt inexplicably irritated
“Who is it, Charles?” Sonia asked a little weakly from inside the room
Having no intention to lie to her, Charles stared at the couple in front of him and called back in a raised voice, “It’s Miss Gray and President Fuller. They say they’re looking for you.”
The room was silent for a few moments before Sonia finally said, “Let
them in.”
Charles then stepped aside, albeit a
little reluctantly
“Thank you,” Tina said with a smile and
a nod before leading Toby in with her
arm around his
Rolling his eyes, Charles shut the door and followed behind them.
Wearing a loose pair of pajamas, Sonia
was seated against the head of the
bed and her head was bandaged. Her face was pale and she looked extremely fragile.
For some reason, Toby felt his heart
ache faintly at the sight of her. Subconsciously, he gentled his voice and asked, “How are you?”
After giving him a curious look, Sonia
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*smirked in amusement and asked, “Are
C
hure
you concerned about me
Tina instantly tightened her grip around
his arm
As if prompted, he realized that he was acting a little strangely toward Sonia and pursed his lips before continuing in a cold and detached voice, “There’s nothing odd about asking how the injured are doing while visiting them. It’s only polite.”
His meaning was that he was asking
out of politeness and not care.
Satisfied, Tina loosened her grip on his
arm and gave Sonia a smug look.
Before the latter could react, Charles
stepped forward in a broad stride and blocked Tina’s view of her, miming a digging motion with his fingers and saying, “I’ll gouge your eyes out if you look at her like that again.”
Tina bit her lip. “You wouldn’t dare!”
With a chuckle, he answered, “Try me!” And then, he acted like he was about to chase after her.
Instantly, she paled and hid behind
Toby, clinging to the hem of his suit jacket and begging in a quavering voice, “Save me, Toby!”
Putting one arm around her behind his
back, Toby held up the other in a ‘stop’
motion in front of Charles and glared coldly. “Don’t go too far,” he warned.
As if he had heard something funny,
Charles snorted. “Since you’re being so
kind as to warn me, I’ll give you some advice as well-you’d better watch your double standards. You only pay attention to what I’m doing to your fiancée and not what she is doing to Sonia. Given how blind you are, you
might as well give your eyes away.”
Watching on from the bed, Sonia couldn’t help cackling and giving him a thumbs-up.
As Toby noted her motion, he frowned uneasily and he thought to himself,
Does that mean that she, too, thinks!
am blind?
After yawning with her hand covering her mouth, Sonia finally said impatiently, “Alright. This is my room and I’m still recovering. Whatever you’re here for, say it and leave. I want
to rest.”
Pursing his lips, he said, “We’re here to
apologize to you.”
Apologize?
She exchanged glances with Charles.
Pulling Tina out from behind his back,
Toby explained, “You fell last evening
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because Tina accidentally spilled her
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body wash on the floor.”
“I’m very sorry, Miss Reed.” With a guilty expression, Tina gave her an apologetic bow.
Coldly and quietly, she watched Tina
“Was it truly an accident?”
Straightening, Tina met Sonia’s piercing gaze abruptly and panicked internally. Instantly, she lowered her eyes and pressed through her teeth, “It was.”
Charles sneered. “Bullsh*t! You spilled
it on purpose!”
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Tearing up, she protested, “I didn’t! You
have to believe me, Miss Reed. I really didn’t!”
“Save it. We’ll never believe you.” Casting her a disgusted look, Charles
continued, “What I want to know is why
you didn’t mention Sonia’s fall was connected to you last night. Why are you only admitting it just now?”
As her eyes flashed, she explained with her head still lowered, “Because I didn‘t
realize last night that Miss Reed fell
because of me. It wasn’t until you
carried her away and I saw body wash
on the floor where she was that I
figured out what had happened, which
is why I’ve come here to apologize as
“soon as possible.”
“You would have to, or things would end badly for you.” Sonia remarked
with a scornful curl of her lip.
Tina’s expression froze. “What do you mean by that, Miss Reed?”
Similarly, Charles and Toby both stared
at her.
After sweeping a careless glance over
Tina’s increasingly uneasy gaze, Sonia
answered cynically, “You know what I
mean by that. You knew you would be
my first suspect after I woke up and
were afraid things would get out of
your control if I threw a fuss about it, which is why you’re hoping to sweep
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everything under the rug by calling it an
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accident.”
“So, you mean to sweep everything under the rug?” Charles roared with laughter. “Let me tell you now that that’s not going to happen.”
Previously silent, Toby suddenly became aware that things weren’t going to be so easily solved, so he stepped forward and asked in a low voice, “What do you intend to do, then?”
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