In the late night, the rain became bigger and bigger. Browsing the news on the Internet, Modesty felt so
bothered.
When the car stopped in front of the hotel, she got off the car and quickly walked towards the hotel with
an umbrella.
She used the umbrella to hide her face all the way and even didn’t close it in the life.
Standing in front of the room and Arthur told her before, Modesty reached out to press the doorbell.
The door was opened soon. Arthur only wrapped his lower body with a bath towel. When seeing
Modesty, he said with evil intention, “Nice. You arrive so quickly.”
Modesty looked at him coldly, “What the hell do you want?”
Arthur studied her from top to toe and said, “Come in first. How boring it will be if we just stand here.”
Modesty only closed the umbrella after walking into the room. She put it in a corner.
Arthur walked towards the wine cabinet while saying, “Take a seat.”
Modesty had been landing her gaze on him when she sat down on the sofa in the living room.
After a short wine, Arthur walked over with two glasses of red wine and put one of them in front of
Modesty, “No matter what, I have to congratulate you for winning the championship.”
When speaking, Arthur picked up the glass of red wine for Modesty.
Modesty knitted her brows. Suppressing the disgust and hatred in her heart, she took the glass from
Arthur and took a sip under his gaze.
Arthur looked at her with satisfaction.
Modesty put the glass on the table, “You can tell me how much you want. I will try my best to satisfy
you.”
“Nope.” Arthur raised his chin and gulped down the red wine in his glass. He then sat beside Modesty,
“If what I want is money, I won’t ask you to come here. Ms. Barton has a lot of money. I ask you here to
talk about our private affair.”
When speaking, he put his hand on Modesty’s thigh.
Modesty abruptly stood up, “Behave yourself!”
Arthur burst into laughter. But at the next moment, he suddenly changed his expression and said coldly,
“You come to my room, and ask me to behave myself?”
“I come here because…”
Modesty suddenly felt her surroundings blurry.
Sitting on the sofa, Arthur curled his lips into a ferocious smile.
Modesty had a foreboding. Shivering, she rummaged her bad, took out the fruit knife and uncontrollably
stammered in a shaking voice, “Don’t… Don’t come over. Otherwise, I will…”
Arthur was not enraged. Instead, he chuckled, “Oh, seems you come here with some preparation. I
underestimated you before.”
Modesty became dizzier and dizzier, even finding it difficult to maintain her balance.
Arthur grabbed her knife effortlessly and pressed her onto the sofa violently, “Now that this’s the case, I
won’t show mercy to you.”
At the beginning, Modesty still struggled out of the instinct, but when she felt the sharp pain from her
private part, she stared at the ceiling dully, feeling her mind blank.
She could only hear the man’s disgusting heavy breathes.
Several hours later, the medicine in the wine finally lost its efficacy. Trembling all over, Modesty proper
herself up from the ground, casually grabbed a cloth to cover her breasts and then took out her phone
in an attempt to call the police.
Sitting beside her, Arthur narrowed his eyes and lit a cigarette, “Sue me if you want to.”
When speaking, he threw a phone to Modesty, “The evidence is in the phone. You can sue me if you
like.”
Modesty bit her lower lip with great force. She didn’t expect that he would video it.
Arthur breathed out smoke and then continued, “After all I don’t have too much courage. If the police
interrogate me, I will get nervous and may tell them about your unpresentable transaction. It doesn’t
matter to me. But you’re different. It was not easy for you to win the championship of the Young
Designers’ Contest. It will be a pity that someone will replace you to be the champion.”
Modesty was silent for a long time, and then she began to wear her clothes quietly.
When she left, Arthur said, “Rest assured. As long as you can come to me whenever I call you, I won’t
disclose this video or our transaction on the contest to others.”
Modesty stiffened. Her hands that were placed on both sides were clenched into fists, yet she could
only suppress her anger and leave.
Arthur’s rampant laughter sounded from behind.
After leaving the hotel, Modesty didn’t come back to the house that she was living in now. Instead, she
came back to the old house, which was her real home.
Nevertheless, it was pouring with rain and the alley, which had always been water logged, was full of
water now and she couldn’t see the original alley.
Modesty walked along the alley. Her shoes and clothes had gotten wet.
Standing in front of her home, Modesty knocked at the door with great force. But the only reply she got
was just the loud raining sound.
After a long while, the knocking sound finally woke up her neighbor. An old man, aged around seventy
years old, wobbled out of his home. He recognized Modesty only after a long while, “Modesty, your
father is not at home. Stop knocking at the door.”
Modesty turned around and asked furiously, “Where did he go?”
“He got sick several days ago and was sent the hospital, yet he hasn’t come back since then. It has
been a long time.”
“What about Adolph?”
“Adolph hasn’t come back again either after sending your father to the hospital.”
After finishing the words, the old man came back home.
Looking at the potted plant that was carefully cultivated by Eugene, Modesty became angrier and
angrier. She landed a hard kick on the flowerpot. The flowerpot hit the wall and broke into pieces. The
plant in the flowerpot was covered by soil and gradually lost its vitality.
The old man turned around when he heard the loud sound. He shook his head, clicked his tongue and
then closed the door.
Modesty then went to Adolph’s home, trying to find out some clues about his whereabouts.
Only Adolph could help her fight against Arthur now.
She found the key that Adolph put under the windowsill. Only when she got into the house did she find
out that the house was full of dusts. It seemed like Adolph hadn’t come back here for a long time.
Reluctant to leave without any gains, Modesty found a pen and a piece of paper and left a note to
Adolph, asking him to contact her when he saw the note.
On the way back, Modesty turned around and took a glance at the building in the room. The odor of
waste pervaded the surroundings.
She would not come back to here again!
…
Although Stella only slept for several hours, she felt more vigorous when she woke up.
It was still rainy outside of the windows and the whole sky was dark. She didn’t know how long would
this rain last.
Stella changed her clothes and went downstairs.
When she came to the living room, a maid hurriedly walked over, “Ms. Radomil, Master Steward asked
you to come to his study when you wake up.”
“I see.”
Stella walked to the study and knocked at the door. Charles’ cold voice sounded from inside, “Come
in.”
Stella walked into the study and said in a flat voice, “Mr. Steward, is there any matter?”
Charles looked towards her with a touch of gloominess in his eyes.
Maybe it was because he didn’t sleep last night, the pretentious elegance and gentleness on his face
was nowhere to be found now.
Meeting his eyes in the air, Stella didn’t change her expression, showing no trace of cowardice.
After a while, Charles broke the silence, “You know the news on the Internet, right?”
Stella nodded her head, “It has attracted great public attention and many medias have reported it. Of
course I’ve learned about it.”
“Did you see it from the news?”
Stella asked, “Or where should I learn?”
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