A Night of Desire-Chapter 30: She Ran Away

’She can’t tell me?’

Clara Grant wasn’t ready to give up, so she tried a different approach. "Is the guest in this room named Seth Quinn?"

The receptionist was clearly surprised and blurted out, "How do you know?"

The moment the words left her mouth, she grew awkward and fearful. ’Isn’t this a blatant breach of confidentiality? What if the manager finds out...’

Clara Grant saw the receptionist’s distress. If she wasn’t supposed to disclose guest information, then confirming his name was a clear violation of the rules. It was only natural for her to be scared.

To put the receptionist at ease, Clara Grant forced a smile and said reassuringly, "Don’t worry. You didn’t tell me anything, and I don’t know anything!"

Having said that, she turned and walked out the hotel entrance, not meeting the receptionist’s grateful eyes.

’Seth Quinn. So it really was Seth Quinn!’ 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

’When she heard it was him, she wasn’t happy, exactly... but why on earth did she suddenly feel so relieved???’

’She’d actually had the thought, ’Thank God it was Seth Quinn’! But didn’t she despise scumbags like him?’

’Could it be... just because he’s handsome?’

’I guess it really is more comforting to give yourself to a handsome man than to an ugly one, huh?’

Standing by the entrance, Clara Grant’s thoughts were a complete mess.

「Upstairs, in Room 1818.」

Not long after Clara ran out, the bathroom door opened from the inside. Seth Quinn emerged, a bath towel wrapped around his waist as he dried his hair.

When he saw the empty bed, he froze, towel still in hand. He stared for a couple of seconds before walking to the bedside and lifting the covers to look. Then he glanced around the room, as if he couldn’t accept the fact that she was gone.

But there was no denying it. She was gone, and so were the clothes from the bedside.

’She snuck away while I was taking a quick shower?’

Seth Quinn sneered. ’What a heartless woman.’

She had kept him up for most of the night, leaving him utterly exhausted. And yet, when he woke up this morning, he’d still called room service to have her clothes washed and dried before leaving for work, leaving them by the bed for her.

He’d come back from the office before three in the afternoon, only to find her still sleeping soundly. The effects of the drug had probably worn off, as her face was no longer unnaturally flushed, but pale and flawless.

’He’d told himself he was watching her with cold detachment, so why did he feel his body growing warm the longer he looked?’

A wave of irritation washed over Seth Quinn. He had no choice but to jump into the bathroom for a cold shower to extinguish this baffling desire.

But when he came out of the shower, the woman was gone!

’I saved her from that fatso. It’s one thing not to get a ’thank you,’ but after all the trouble she caused me last night, she couldn’t even manage a single ’sorry’?’

’But, trying to run? If I don’t let you, do you really think you can escape my grasp?!’

Seth Quinn snorted coldly and sat down on the bed. He scrubbed the towel over his hair a few more times before tossing it aside.

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DING!

The sudden sound of a text alert snapped Clara Grant, who had been standing there in a daze, back to her senses. She looked down and pulled her phone from her pocket. The first thing she saw on the lit screen was the time—4:32 PM.

’Is it already past four-thirty in the afternoon on the next day? I... I’ve been in this hotel for nearly a whole day?’

’And since I didn’t go back to my dorm or go home last night, Mom must be worried sick!’

’I skipped all my classes today, too. Sarah must have been worried to death when she didn’t see me.’