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.

mouth but did not manage to say a single word. After a long while, she finally

Joshua curled his lips into a smirk and strode

out of Alice’s hands and sternly uttered, ”What are you looking for behind my back? Why don’t

not even form a single sentence.

possible… How

put plenty of sleeping pills in the crème brûlée Joshua had eaten. The doctor had told her that this

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

them on the coffee table, then

of the sofa and leaned against the backrest, much like a dignified and majestic king. His gaze never wavered from

after he realized that Alice had spiked his food and rummaged through his hotel room while he was out cold, he immediately

his entire study

fear of missing out

his employees at Lynch Group Tower, they said the

Joshua passed the divorce papers to

would back off after what happened this

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