Alice immediately stiffened when she heard Joshua’s voice suddenly echoing through the silent room.

She must have misheard it; Joshua had eaten the crème brûlée that she spiked with sedatives. How could he possibly have awoken?

This was impossible…

Alice shook her head and continued rifling through Joshua’s clothes.

“You don’t need any help?“ the same voice rang out from behind her just as she was about to reach for his shirt.

Alice could no longer convince herself she was mishearing things.

She slowly turned around, feeling as though the joints in her entire body were stiff and rigid. She finally took in the scene behind her.

Joshua, dressed in a pair of gray pajamas, was leaning gracefully against the doorframe. He fixated his gaze on her, a smirk playing on his lips.

Alice felt as though her blood had run cold and her entire body had stiffened.

a single word. After a long while, she finally stammered,

curled his lips into a smirk and

Alice’s hands and sternly uttered, ”What are you looking for behind my back? Why don’t you just tell me what it is, and I’111ook for it

could not even form a single sentence. Her mind went

was not possible…

in the crème brûlée Joshua had eaten. The doctor had told her that this dosage would not harm Joshua but

all over Joshua’s crème brûlée. He had eaten not one but two bowls of

Joshua picked up his clothes, set them on the coffee table, then sat down

majestic king. His gaze never wavered from Alice , who was still frozen in shock, and asked,

had spiked his food and rummaged through his hotel room while he was out

servants at Blue Bay Villa, Alice had searched through his entire study while he was gone, and

for fear of missing

he asked his employees at Lynch Group Tower,

heard this, Joshua passed the

that Alice would back off after what happened this afternoon, but contrary to his belief, she

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