It turned out the person behind me was Leonardo.
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I took a disgusted step forward but stumbled on something and ended up falling to the ground.
awkwardly.
Samuel quickly broke free from the people trying to hold him back. He walked over, grabbed my
arm, and hauled me to my feet.
1 frantically waved my hands. “Let go of me!”
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“Let go of what? Can’t you tell it’s my voice?”
The veins at my temple throbbed. It was precisely because I recognized his voice that I told him to
let go.
The strong smell of blood clung to him. When I noticed his bloodstained hand gripping my arm, I
suddenly gagged.
Samuel’s expression darkened. “What’s that supposed to mean? Are you saying you feel like
throwing up after hearing my voice?”
“It’s the smell of blood…” I couldn’t stop myself from gagging again.
Samuel’s expression finally softened a little. He then staggered toward the restroom while dragging me along.
He shoved me toward the sink. “Lean over and throw up here!”
Then, he casually started washing his hands while standing on the other side.
The faint scent of disinfectant wafted through the air. With the metallic smell of blood now gone, the nausea in my stomach gradually subsided.
After washing his hands, Samuel pulled out a handkerchief. He wiped them dry and began scrutinizing me from head to toe.
I
It was only then that I realized I was still wearing the dress I had put on earlier. I had worn it from the lounge to Benjamin’s home and then to Mrs. Foster Senior’s villa.
I hadn’t thought much about it before, but I felt thoroughly uncomfortable under Samuel’s
scrutiny. His current expression was unreadable, which unsettled me even more.
“Give me that guide dog!”
Samuel suddenly leaned closer. “Tell me, what kind of job requires you to wear that outfit?”
“I was performing!”
“What kind of performance would a blind person do? A striptease?”
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I swung my hand to slap him but missed. He caught my wrist effortlessly and dragged me into one of the stalls in the men’s restroom.
Before I could react, he started tugging at my clothes. “Let’s check whether what’s mine has been touched by another man!”
“You’re insane! Samuel, this is all you ever do every time you see me. Is this how you treat women. you care about?”
Samuel froze for a moment, then let out a derisive laugh. “You think I care about you?”
I tried to steady my breathing. I had actually asked whether he treated Yvette the same way, but perhaps he misunderstood me because he’d been drinking.
“Juliet, you came to me first. You can’t survive without me. You’re blind, and you’d be dead without me. So now that you’ve chosen to be mine, how dare you go after other men? Tell me, who’s that middle–aged man who went home with you?”
He yanked at the collar of my dress while I clung desperately to the hem, afraid to let go. If I
waist. loosened my grip, the dress would tear all the way from my collarbone to my
But his words shook me to my core, leaving me trembling with rage.
I had never sought to rely on him. It was Samuel who kept drilling into me that I couldn’t survive without him ever since my parents passed away.
“A colleague,” I said firmly.
*Do you think those two words are enough to brush me off?” Samuel pulled me into his arms.
“You pass me up and settle for some old man instead? What, are you looking for a taste of fatherly love because your own dad’s gone?”
I thought I had become numb enough, but hearing those words from him brought an overwhelming surge of pain.
The death of my parents was an unshakable shadow over my life, a wound that would never heal.
How could Samuel say something like that to me?
People like him could bankrupt my family and force my parents into a desperate corner with just the flick of a finger. Every step I took now felt like was walking on a tightrope.
“Why the hell are you crying?” Samuel’s voice suddenly became irritable.
At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
“Get lost!” Samuel shouted.
From outside the stall, Leonardo’s voice replied, vie is here. She’s crying, after seeing the two
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unconscious security guards on the ground.”
