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.

her mouth but did not manage to say a single word. After a

smirk and strode over, then slowly

out of Alice’s hands and sternly uttered, ”What are you looking for behind my back? Why

not even form

possible… How

The doctor had told her that this

had ground the pills into powder and sprinkled it all over Joshua’s crème brûlée. He had eaten not one but two bowls of it, so how could he

his clothes, set them on the coffee table, then sat down gracefully on

of the sofa and leaned against the backrest, much like a dignified and majestic king. His gaze never wavered from Alice , who was still frozen in shock, and asked, ”You’re looking for the divorce

and rummaged through his hotel room while he was out cold, he immediately ordered Lucas to investigate everything that had happened in

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

of missing out on

asked his employees at Lynch Group Tower, they said the same

soon as he heard this, Joshua passed the divorce

Alice would back off after what happened this afternoon, but

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