Zephyr brushed his cool fingers across her cheek, his voice gentle.

“Kitty, you almost died because of me, so I must take even better care of you. I can give you whatever you want except letting you go,” he promised.

Johanna's expression promptly darkened. Pinning her eyes on the loathsome countenance before her, she snarled, “If I'd known earlier, I wouldn't have saved you!”

In response, Zephyr flashed her a smile. “Could you bring yourself to do that? You want to live. If I die, you'll also die.”

Johanna sneered, “Why are you so sure? I don't believe there aren't any lecherous men among those who want to kill you. They love whatever belongs to others, be it your company or your woman. As long as I behave, perhaps they will let me go after they get sick of me.”

To her, her body was nothing but a shell. She had long since stopped caring about it.

All she wanted was to go back alive.

“What a naïve Kitty.” Zephyr stroked her hair gently as though he was really soothing a kitten.

At that precise moment, a door sounded at the door. Two housekeepers wheeled a serving cart with food into the room.

“Wheel it to the study door,” Zephyr ordered mildly. Gently placing Johanna in the wheelchair, he wheeled her to the study at the other end of the corridor.

After placing his finger on the fingerprint scanner to unlock the study door, he wheeled her in before doing the same with the cart at the door.

The study was massive, but the colors weren't as vivid as those in the bedroom and the others. Instead, it had a color combination of black and gray, looking cold and monotonous, perfect for work purposes.

The space had both a working area and a lounge area.

Zephyr wheeled Johanna to the lounge area. Grabbing the remote control, he lowered the projector on the wall and clicked on a video on his laptop.

“Watch carefully, Kitty.”

Following his words, Johanna tensed up.

Regretfully, the pain from her shoulder in the next heartbeat had her frowning deeply. Having no other choice, she could only relax her body as she gripped the armrests of the wheelchair hard.

Hah! He must have recorded some sort of video and wants to use it to humiliate me!

Soon, a video played on the projector, but it wasn't the type of video she had expected. The bloody scenes and wails of agony reverberating in her ears had her trembling all over.

She felt as though she could see blood gushing out of the projector and scent the coppery stench of it.

Her stomach roiled. She turned her head to the side and threw up the water she had drunk that morning.

Seeing that, Zephyr crouched before her and wiped her mouth with a piece of tissue.
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