Mr. Hawthorne, Your Wife Wants a Divorce Again-Chapter 1040: The Drug Is... Starting to Take Effect!
After lunch, Ann Vaughn went out, completely putting behind her the small incident that had occurred in Ian Yardley’s room.
Just then, the private detective she had hired two days ago sent a message, and Ann immediately opened it to check.
[Miss Vaughn, your friend has stayed home since being discharged from the hospital and hasn’t gone out until last night, when she booked a flight to Lyncroft online. She just left the house with her suitcase a short while ago.]
Reading this message, Ann finally felt her heart, which had been anxious for two days, settle back into place.
[Miss Vaughn, should I continue tracking her?]
[No, thank you for your help.]
After settling the final payment for the private detective, Ann put her phone back in her bag and let out a gentle sigh of relief.
Going out for a change of scenery isn’t a bad idea.
Perhaps for Susie Sommers, staying in the city with Julian Master Moore is the real torment.
...
Inside the dimly lit Bamboo Creek Villa apartment.
The curtains in the living room were drawn tightly, not letting a sliver of light in, making the room appear cold and somewhat eerie.
In the furthest corner, a woman lay with duct tape over her mouth and her hands and feet tightly bound, her eyes wide with terror, glistening with tears.
— It was Susie Sommers, who was supposed to be on her journey already.
"Mmm, mmm!" Susie struggled fiercely against the ropes on her hands and feet, trying to call for help, but all sounds were muffled by the tape, making her voice barely audible.
As anxiety consumed her, a heavy footstep suddenly sounded from the front.
Step by step, unhurriedly approaching Susie, causing her breath to tighten and her heart to leap into her throat.
Click.
With that light sound, the living room lights suddenly came on.
The abrupt light made Susie squint uncomfortably; when she opened her eyes again, she saw a person she knew all too well standing before her.
Susie’s eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at the person crouching in front of her and tried to speak, but could only make a "mmm" sound.
The person seemed to sense her intent, reaching to tear the tape from her mouth.
The tape had been on so long that ripping it off stung her face, but Susie could not care less. Astonished, she forced a question from her throat.
"Seth Lynn, how could it be you?!"
Susie’s shock was not unwarranted.
Because from the moment she was kidnapped to now, she hadn’t connected the kidnapper with her first love.
"Surprised?" Seth lowered his eyes, his face still adorned with the gentle smile Susie remembered so well, as if nothing had changed.
If not for the filming equipment scattered around the living room and the pile of unspeakable props on the table, he would look no different from the gentle upperclassman he was in college.
Susie felt chills down her spine, "What are you trying to do? How do you know my house’s door code... Was it you following me some time ago?!"
Before her hospitalization, Susie had noticed someone stalking her, but she hadn’t untangled the mystery before an accident landed her in the hospital.
"How else would I have discovered that my seemingly elegant first love had secretly conceived another man’s child while I was abroad?" Seth smirked, pinching Susie’s chin and forcing a pill into her mouth.
Susie opened her mouth to spit it out, but he blocked her forcefully, making her swallow it.
"Cough, cough cough!" Susie’s eyes were bright red, "What did you make me take?!"
"Don’t worry, it won’t kill that bastard’s spawn inside you," Seth sneered, "It’s just a special aphrodisiac from abroad."
An... aphrodisiac?!
Susie’s body jolted, feeling as if the air around her had thinned, a buzz ringing in her head.
"What we had already ended so long ago, and besides, you were the one who suggested we break up. Why do this?"
"I told you when we broke up to wait until I returned to the country, but you didn’t listen." Seth’s gentle gaze grew ominous, "Not only did you fail to wait for me, but you also humiliated me with so many affairs — tell me, how should I punish you?"
"Are you fucking nuts?!" Susie was shaking with fury, her voice hoarse, "Breaking up means it’s over, understand?! You dumped me, yet you expect me to pine for you? Are you dreaming before sunset or something?!"
Does he think he’s an emperor or a pile of cash? Everyone has to worship him blindly?
What brand of trash bag is this, so capable of stuffing shit inside?!
But her words only infuriated Seth, causing him to slap Susie across the face!
"Shut up! Shameless wench!"
Susie’s head spun from the blow, a persistent ringing in her ears, the metallic taste in her mouth nauseating her, her abdomen ached faintly.
"If you have the guts, kill me today, don’t leave me a breath, or I swear I’ll kill you if I get the chance!" Susie’s lips trembled, her eyes glaring fiercely at Seth’s mad visage, defiant to the end.
Seth smirked, "How could I bear to kill you? I like you so much."
With that, Seth lifted Susie off the ground and carried her to the glass table in the living room, placing her atop it.
"... What are you going to do?" Susie stiffened as she looked at the cameras directed at her.
Aphrodisiac... cameras...
Suddenly understanding, Susie’s back prickled with fear, cold dread coursing to her scalp as she struggled violently without thinking.
Yet the heat abruptly welling inside left her weak, her breath growing short, limbs softening.
The drug’s effect... was starting!
Seth patted Susie’s pale face, his gentle smile replaced by a leering glint that sickened her.
"Don’t worry, I won’t take your life."
"As long as we do it, the drug’s effects will quickly subside. Of course, whether the bastard inside you survives is another matter."
"And these cameras here will capture everything. If you don’t want the footage sent to the TV station where you work, for the whole nation to enjoy your sluttish behavior on bed, you’d better stay obediently by my side and try going nowhere."
His every word, the cold tone chilled Susie inside, yet the drug drove her temperature higher and higher.
"You’re insane! If you touch me, just try it, I’ll kill you with every breath left in me!"
Seth didn’t respond, instead, he pulled forcefully, shredding Susie’s thin summer dress with a tear, his clammy hand slowly reaching for her most intimate spot.
Susie’s face turned ashen, feeling icy hands clasping her ankles, dragging her further into the deepest mire.
Until despair fully enveloped her.
