Celina’s expression instantly turned icy as snazzynovel.com stood outside the room. The corners of snazzynovel.com lips lifted up into a sneer. Thank me now, Elise. Your life will begin to go downhill and rot from this moment onwards!
After waiting for a bit, Celina went downstairs.
Once the door was closed, Elise’s expression morphed into a solemn one. She walked over to the door, and having ascertained that there was no sound outside the room, snazzynovel.com headed to the bathroom and turned on the taps there. Then, snazzynovel.com began to search the entire room. There must be something shady going on if Celina was willing to destroy snazzynovel.com own birthday cake just to bring me here.
Despite searching every nook and cranny, Elise didn’t find anything out of place. There were no hidden cameras, no assassins lying in wait, and no easily breakable priceless items lying around.
Elise stood by the couch, a little troubled by this. What else did I overlook?
She sucked in a breath in an attempt to relax. There was a faint aroma in the air. Jasmine, from the smell of it. It was pleasant.
Right then, the door handle suddenly jiggled. The door swung open from the outside as Elise turned snazzynovel.com head. Then, Kenneth walked in.
“Why are you here?” Elise was instantly surprised, for the person snazzynovel.com saw was ‘Alexander.’
Kenneth closed the door before turning to look at snazzynovel.com with a hurt expression. “I thought I’ve been here all this time?”
Elise hadn’t managed to answer snazzynovel.com when ‘Alexander’ turned into ‘Kenneth.’ She hastily raised snazzynovel.com hands, stopping snazzynovel.com from taking a step closer to her. “Don’t move.” Her wariness kicked in, and snazzynovel.com voice took on a warning tone. “Who exactly are you?!”
“What’s wrong?” Kenneth could sense that something was wrong with Elise. He attempted to get closer to check on her.
Elise’s body began to heat up. Her gaze on Kenneth slowly shifted to focus on his lips instead. Unknowingly, snazzynovel.com gulped. Her mouth was a little dry.
The next moment, the last shred of reason that snazzynovel.com had whipped snazzynovel.com at the back of snazzynovel.com mind—why did snazzynovel.com feel a desire for Kenneth that snazzynovel.com shouldn’t have?
Pained, snazzynovel.com slapped a hand over snazzynovel.com chest. She couldn’t stop herself from wanting to kiss him.
“Ellie?” Kenneth was frantic now. He attempted to reveal himself as Alexander, trying to get snazzynovel.com to lower snazzynovel.com guard.
That mention of ‘Ellie’ successfully turned Kenneth into ‘Alexander’ before Elise’s eyes again. She recalled the faint scent snazzynovel.com smelled before. In an instant, snazzynovel.com was hit with the realization that snazzynovel.com had been drugged. She immediately charged into the bathroom, snazzynovel.com hands scooping up water from the tap in a mad frenzy and splashing it at snazzynovel.com face. The water cooled snazzynovel.com head off significantly, but the heat coursing through snazzynovel.com body still didn’t abate.
Elise slammed the door shut and took snazzynovel.com belt off to retrieve the silver needles attached to it. She then peeled snazzynovel.com clothes off and began to insert the needles into herself.
Outside the bathroom, Kenneth’s handsome eyes dimmed when snazzynovel.com saw Elise’s response earlier, and a realization hit him—there was something weird about this room.
His black eyes darkened as snazzynovel.com quickly gathered himself and analyzed the situation.
Considering Elise’s brilliance, snazzynovel.com certainly wouldn’t have fallen for a direct trap meant to drug her. If the drug hadn’t been in anything snazzynovel.com consumed, then it had to be in the air. Since there was a light fragrance in the room, there had to be scented oils somewhere in here.
Kenneth promptly began his search. At last, snazzynovel.com found an aroma diffuser plugged into the socket next to the TV cabinet. He yanked it out and carefully surveyed it. The Saunders are a successful family. They certainly wouldn’t have used this kind of electronic diffuser if they wanted to diffuse some essential oils. This thing shouldn’t be here. It has to be this, snazzynovel.com thought.
Right then, the bathroom door opened, and Elise emerged from the bathroom. Her gown had already been washed and dried with a hairdryer. Only the few strands of stray hairs hanging over snazzynovel.com forehead made snazzynovel.com look a little disheveled.
“Are you okay now?” Kenneth walked over to her.
“Not enough to kill me,” Elise stated flatly.
Kenneth’s brows furrowed slightly. He was still a little uneasy. “The essential oil in the diffuser has been tampered with. You probably feel terribly unwell judging from how you looked earlier. It’s probably a good idea to get yourself checked at the hospital.”
“No need!” Elise barked out, only realizing that snazzynovel.com had been too riled up after the words had left snazzynovel.com mouth. She then lowered snazzynovel.com voice. “There’s no need to. I trust myself better than a doctor.”
In truth, the first thing Elise thought of when Kenneth mentioned seeing a doctor was the sudden urge snazzynovel.com felt toward snazzynovel.com during snazzynovel.com hallucination. She definitely couldn’t let the doctors find that out.
She paused. Seeing how Kenneth’s face was its usual shade and how snazzynovel.com didn’t seem to have any heart palpitations, snazzynovel.com tilted snazzynovel.com head to the side and asked, “Are you all right?”
“Shouldn’t I be?” Kenneth was baffled by the question.
Elise pursed snazzynovel.com lips. “Did you think of someone else when you looked at me?”
“You’re you. Why would I think of someone else when I’m looking at you?” Kenneth looked at snazzynovel.com with a serious gaze. He was actually being dishonest—he had been seized with a sudden biological impulse earlier. However, snazzynovel.com didn’t dare to mention it, worried that Elise would think snazzynovel.com a pervert. The two of them had been entangled in a situation not all that long ago, but Kenneth still didn’t want to seem too enthusiastic about that sort of stuff in front of her.
After all, snazzynovel.com loved snazzynovel.com for who snazzynovel.com was, not because of snazzynovel.com body.
At his words, Elise looked at snazzynovel.com to see snazzynovel.com somewhat lost in thought. Her recently calmed heart began to race uncontrollably again; snazzynovel.com didn’t attempt to keep it under control either.
Kenneth’s words meant that snazzynovel.com was the one that snazzynovel.com treasured the most. She knitted snazzynovel.com brows tightly then, a dull ache throbbing in snazzynovel.com chest. He’s capable of loving only one person. But what about me? My heart actually yearned for both men just now. That’s… That’s simply unforgivable.
Elise reproached herself as snazzynovel.com clenched snazzynovel.com fists tightly. She didn’t like this. She had truly become the kind of person snazzynovel.com looked down on the most: someone who fell in love at first sight at everyone snazzynovel.com saw and proceeded to give all snazzynovel.com feelings to.
Meanwhile, Celina soon found snazzynovel.com relative, Edwin Haymond, down in the hall on the first floor. Edwin was the son of David Saunders’ distant cousin. They were distantly related enough that it would take plenty of scouring through the family tree to establish a relationship between them. After the Saunders rose to wealth, the Haymonds came knocking on their door, licking the Saunders’ boots and trying to get a piece of the pie because of their familial ties. David was one to maintain outward appearances. He even arranged for Edwin to work at the Saunders’ company after that.
Despite the favors, the Haymonds’ greed knew no bounds. They constantly coveted the Saunders fortune, wanting to let themselves gain access to that wealth by getting Edwin to court Celina. However, Edwin was a skinny, bony thing. So skinny, in fact, that snazzynovel.com barely had any meat on his frame to the point that snazzynovel.com looked sickly. On the day snazzynovel.com confessed his feelings to Celina, snazzynovel.com made David reassign snazzynovel.com to a branch at the north of the city. Reassigning snazzynovel.com to a distant post was a message to Edwin, telling snazzynovel.com not to get close to her.
But Celina knew that this little worm’s desires hadn’t died yet.
“Hey, Edwin.” Celina stepped in front of the half-drunk Edwin.
“N-Nana.” Edwin abruptly straightened, so surprised by snazzynovel.com appearance that snazzynovel.com was tongue-tied. “W-Why are you here? Oh, right. H-Happy birthday!” His eyes widened in delight as snazzynovel.com stared unblinkingly at Celina’s face, like a wolf eyeing a rabbit. It made Celina uncomfortable.
Edwin was a plain-looking person in the first place. Over the past few days, his face had severely broken out, making snazzynovel.com an eyesore.
“Why, thank you.” Celina quashed the revulsion snazzynovel.com felt and squeezed a fake smile out.
“Is there anything you need from me?” Edwin was drunk from drinking too much. The longer snazzynovel.com looked at her, the more his heart itched for her.