Luca remembered her work in theboratory after she sent a friend request to the cleaningdy.
So far, she had not received any messages from Rhett. She presumed that it must be Luke''s orders.
Luca took the initiative to send a message to Rhett to ask him about the situation in theboratory.
Rhett responded quickly to her message. He told her that the experiments going on in theboratory
were going on as scheduled. They were ready to apply for a clinical trial now.
Luca looked at Rhett''s simple response. It was as though he was afraid of disturbing her if he typed a
few more words.
She shook her head, and the phone screen turned dim. She looked at her reflection on the screen. It
was blurry, but she could see that her face was swollen.
She let out a sigh. She still could not go back to work even though she thought she was fine now.
She would at least have to wait for the swelling and pain on her face to subsidepletely. Only then
would Luke allow her to return to the office and work.
Luca sat on the couch. She could not get used to not having anything to do these days. She picked up
the remote and switched on the television. The news happened to be reporting about her kidnapping
case, stating that it had nothing to do with Pierre Mallory.
The vicious and deceitful man came across her mind. Luca knew that Luke wouldy his hands on him
later even if she did not do anything.
It was not merely because of her but those who had malicious intent against him were bound to end up
badly.
However, Luca could no longer bear it.
She took out her phone and sent a message to Abel: [The man you sent told me that you''re dissatisfied
with my work progress.]
After a while, Abel responded to her message right away: [I''m indeed not satisfied. You''re still not that
close to Luke Crawford. Don''t think that I don''t know what you''re thinking about. Get it done for me.
Otherwise, you''ll regret it.]
Luca sent another message to him: [I''m already involved in T Corporation''s project, but someone threw
a monkey wrench into my ns. I have no choice but to rest at home now. And I don''t even know
whether I''ll still have the chance to participate in the project or not. How am I supposed to get the
tender document if I''m not involved in the project?]
Abel knew she was kidnapped by Pierre, so he replied to her message and asked her: [What do you
want me to do, then?]
Luca replied: [I''m a vindictive person. I need you to deal with Pierre Mallory. Make him suffer.]
Soon, Abel replied to her message again: [Vindictive? Does that mean you''re going to take revenge on
me if you have a grudge against me?]
Luca fell silent for a moment after she read the message.
She wanted to get rid of Abel too, but would she be able to do that?
She could not afford to hire mercenaries, so how could she have the capability to deal with Abel? She
could not even deal with Pierre Mallory because of her situation.
The phone she was holding in her hands vibrated again. Luca looked at it. It was another message
from Abel.
[I can help you deal with Pierre Mallory, but you have to speed up your progress in approaching Luke.
And you have to get the tender document no matter what. To get rid of Luke, we have to begin from the
tender document.]
It suddenly dawned on Luca why Abel had asked her to put herself at risk of being discovered to steal
the tender document.
It turned out she was assigned to this mission because this was the mission that could deal a blow to
Luke and T Corporation.
Abel wanted to let her carry out the mission herself to make Luke suffer heavy losses. That was Abel''s
guilty pleasure.
Luca shook her head and replied: [Okay.]
Abel responded to her message again: [You get the chance to choose how you''re going to deal with
Pierre Mallory since I''m helping you take revenge.]
How to deal with Pierre Mallory?
Pierre set up apany behind everyone''s back. All those things that he did to her and how he had
been pestering Nina...
A malicious thought came into Luca''s mind. She was thinking of making Pierre disappear from this
world.
However, he was a member of the Mallory family, after all. She thought for a moment and replied to
Abel: [I want hispany to shut down.]
[That''s all?] Abel''s message came in again. Luca did not even need to imagine to know that he had a
contemptuous smile on his face.
[That''s all for now.] The doorbell rang right after Luca sent that.
She nced at the time and reckoned that it was the cleaningdy. She stood up and went to open the
door.
A kind-looking middle-aged woman was standing at the door. She smiled and greeted Luca when she
met her. "Hello, Ms. Craw. I''m the cleaningdy Mr. Doyle arranged."
“Hello. Come on in.” Luca was indifferent to her greeting and asked the cleaningdy toe in.
She did not like strangers disturbing her, but there was no way she could negotiate with Luke. He was
kind enough to take a step back by agreeing to look for a cleaningdy for her.
It was better than a 24-hour caretaker looking after her.
"Thank you. May I know where you would like me to clean?” the cleaningdy asked.
"I''m not sure either. You can just do whatever you see fit. This ce hasn''t been cleaned for days. Oh,
you don''t have to clean the maid''s room. I''ll be inside. Please don''t disturb me," said Luca.
"Alright," the cleaningdy smiled and answered. When Luca was about to walk into the maid''s room,
the cleaningdy asked again, "Oh yes, Ms. Craw. What would you like to have for dinner? Mr. Doyle
told me that I''ll have to get groceries for you. If you need me to, I''ll make dinner for you too."
Luca had not thought about what to eat for dinner. She always ate whatever she wanted when she was
eating alone. Then, she remembered that there were some leftovers from lunch today, so she said,
"There''s no need to. I have some leftovers from lunch. You don''t have to buy groceries."
The cleaningdy disagreed and said, "Leftovers are bad for your health. What you need most now is
rest. You need to eat freshly prepared food."
Luca did not expect her to say that. She had no choice but to say, "Then please get me some fresh
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"Anything else?" the cleaningdy asked responsibly.
Luca did not know what fruits she should buy, so she just said, "Something that I can have with
chowder."
"Alright, Ms. Craw," replied the cleaningdy.
Luca saw that there was nothing else, so she grabbed her bag and walked into the maid''s room. Then,
she took a straw out of it.
It was the straw that she used to drink the antidote given by the man from the Ind of Despair that
night.
She had wrapped it with tissue paper but wondered if it was contaminated. If it was uncontaminated,
then it would be the highest concentration sample that she had been able to get.
Luca was nning to separate the substance from the straw. If she was lucky enough, she would soon
be able to figure out theposition of the antidote with the undiluted sample.
She would have to rely on this antidote to save her life if she wanted to escape from the Ind of
Despair in the future.
She could save Eler and Amur too.
She sat down on the chair and began her work.
This whole time, she was focused on doing her research that she did not notice the time until the
cleaningdy knocked on the door of the maid''s room.
Luca snapped out of her work and nced at the time, only to realize that it was already five-thirty in
the evening.
She had been working continuously for more than two hours.
Luca put the separated sample back into the ss tube carefully, then stood up and went to open the
door. "What''s the matter?"