Chapter 10 Slap

“What?”

Everyone looked in the direction the housekeeper had pointed at, only to see a snake glaring back and hissing at them.

The snake was unlike any the housekeepers had seen before. It had a big head, and it had flared its neck as if ready to attack.

Everyone was petrified and stumbled backward in a panic.

“Hurry! Run!” the housekeepers screamed as they collectively fled from the room.

Just then, Henrick and Cindy finally came to Shandie’s room.

Upon seeing the snake still writhing and hissing away, Henrick too retreated, afraid of getting bitten by it.

Cindy’s face had turned green as she shakily asked, “What’s going on? Why is there a snake? What’s everyone standing around for? Someone go kill it now!”

The housekeepers exchanged looks of apprehension, no one wanting to volunteer to take out the snake.

To let any of them deal with a venomous cobra would be akin to sending them to their deaths. Nobody was going to take that risk.

Janet, who had taken her time to come up, was now paralyzed by fear.

Isn’t that the snake I released into Arielle’s room? What is it doing here?

Even carrying the box with the cobra earlier was enough to turn Janet’s legs into jelly. Now she was even more afraid to go any nearer because she knew how venomous the cobra was.

Janet knew Shandie would be dead if she weren’t given the antivenom within the hour. Yet, that was something she had to keep to herself, no matter how much it pained her.

Seeing how no one was keen to take any action, Cindy tugged at Henrick and cried desperately, “Dear! Go kill that snake!”

Henrick, like the others, didn’t dare go near the snake.

pride as the man

couldn’t save his daughter from a snake,

too! If it weren’t for

his teeth and bit the bullet. Just as he was about to step forward with a broom in hand, a voice rang out in the hallway. “Dad, it’s

pajamas. From the looks of it, the commotion

sister fainted after being bitten by it. I have to go save

“Dad, this is too

hearing those words. Without a second thought, she

could have easily avoided, except she decided against it at the

as the slap landed

cheek instantly swelled up with

out of my sight, you vicious wench! Alfred! Throw

not, he’d risk angering either Cindy or Henrick. Unsure of how

to stream down Arielle’s face. Before Henrick could say anything, she cried out, “Dad, I’m only concerned about your safety. After all, you’re the head of

words, so honest and sincere, cut Henrick to the

 

family, everyone’s survival depends on me! If something were to happen to

knows me best and can empathize

Henrick furrowed his

hell did you hit her? She’s only worried

she clearly wants

think of me that way, I’ll just have to prove with actions that I do not wish for any harm to

walked toward the snake. There was hardly any

housekeepers shouted, “Be careful, Ms. Arielle! That snake is

to Shandie, Arielle was more

Henrick pleaded as he tried to stop her. However, Arielle brushed him off and continued walking toward the

Arielle coming closer, the cobra got even more provoked and

snake’s attack before swiftly

cobra had gotten even angrier, especially when its hiss had also

was so petrified by now that they could only stand and watch from a distance, leaving Arielle alone in the room to fight with

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