Nina felt her consciousness fading when she heard that. To remain conscious, she clenched her hands
into tight fists so her nails would dig into the flesh of her palms. “In your dreams! Pierre Mallory, why do
you think I dared to appear here? It''s because it''s that time of the month for me. So you can continue
dreaming about doing whatever your heart desires with me!"
"What?" Pierre did not get the message and knotted his brows together as he asked.
The bargirl sitting beside him got the memo and whispered to him, "Mr. Pierre, she means a woman''s
time of the month."
Pierre immediately understood everything. His brows were furrowed together. He wanted Nina, but not
under these circumstances.
Nina red at him. She seemed to want to say something else, but the drugs paralyzed her and
rendered her unable to say even another word aloud. Finally, she lost consciousness and copsed to
the floor.
Pierre ordered, "Put her on the couch."
When the two bargirls heard him, they stood up and walked toward Nina. Nina had a petite frame,
which meant the two bargirls only needed to exert a little bit of strength to pick her up and ce her on
the couch.
As Pierre stared at the unconscious woman, there was no sign that he was going to do what he had
just threatened to do to her previously. All the excitement he felt had vanished after hearing what she
said just now.
"You two, go check if what she said is true," he said.
The two bargirls had astonished expressions on their faces as they said, "Mr. Pierre, is it necessary for
us to check something like that?"
"What? Are you saying that I should go instead so I can lose interestpletely?" As Pierre stood, he
said, "I''m going to the washroom. You two conduct a check on her. This woman''s very calcting.
There''s a 90 percent chance that she''s lying to me."
As the two bargirls watched Pierre walk toward the washroom, they had no choice but to check if Nina
was lying.
Several momentster, Pierre returned from the washroom and asked, "So, what''s the oue?"
"Mr. Pierre, she really is on her time of the month..." the bargirl replied.
An ugly expression appeared on Pierre''s face. He had anticipated that Nina would turn him down and
rather choose death than obey him, which was why he specially prepared a drug for her. He had
thought that he had prepared for all possible scenarios, but he did not expect her to have onest trick
up her sleeve.
That was a miscalction...
Pierre was furious. He gazed at the unconscious woman in front of him and ordered, “Take her to my
car."
Awkward looks appeared on the bargirls'' faces. One of them said, "Mr. Pierre, why don''t you get the
servers outside to do that? Both of us are girls. It''ll be a little difficult for us to carry her."
Pierre had an ugly expression on his face as he took out a stack of dor bills from his wallet. He did
not want any of the men outside to touch Nina''s body!
He had already tolerated enough during the years Nina was together with Percy. He was no longer
willing to see any men stand beside her ande into any form of physical contact with her.
"If you two carry her to my car, all this cash will be yours," he said generously.
A sparkle appeared in the bargirls'' eyes when they saw the stack of money. Without discussing it
between themselves, they both said, "Alright, Mr. Pierre. We''ll make sure we carry her to your car."
When Pierre heard that, he strode ahead of them and pushed the door open so he could leave.
The two bargirls hurriedly pocketed the money and picked up Nina so they could leave. They would
never be able to earn such arge tip even if they apanied customers to drink for the entire night.
They both carried Nina and followed Pierre. They heaved a sigh of relief when they ced the
unconscious woman in his car.
Pierre gazed at the unconscious woman and fastened the seat belt for her so that she would not bump
or scrape herself when still unconscious. Finally, he closed the car door and drove off into the night.
As the two bargirls stood by the curb and watched the car leave, one of them asked, "Oh, right. Mr.
Pierre had quite a bit to drink as well, didn''t he? Will he be alright driving in this state?"
"Why are you so worried? It''s not like this is the first time he''s driving after drinking. Even if he gets
caught, the police will avoid him when they realize who he is," the other bargirl replied.
"You''re right. And we''ve already earned more than enough today. Come on, let''s go split the money
between us," the bargirl stopped worrying about him and left with herpanion.
When Percy finished working, he drove over to Nina''s apartment.
He counted the number of floors in the apartment and noticed that the lights in Nina''s apartment were
not switched on.
"Is she asleep?" Percy asked in a low voice as he picked up his phone and tried sending Nina a text.
The morning after the night he slept with her, he had secretly taken her phone, unlocked it, and
unblocked his number. Then, he had deleted any traces of evidence he left behind so she would not
find out.
He knew Nina''s habits. If she were asleep, her phone would be on silent. Thus, even if she were
asleep now and he sent a text, he would not have to worry about waking her up.
Percy waited for five minutes and still did not receive a reply from Nina.
"Looks like she really is asleep," he said as he gazed at his phone with a gentle look in his eyes.
“But I want to see you," Percy continued saying as he took out a copy of Nina''s keys from his pocket.
Luke had used his connections to help him get this set of keys.
Before this, he had not made sense of his feelings for Nina and did not think too much about them,
chalking them up to feelings of possessiveness. However, he realized after that he was not being
possessive. Nina had taken ownership of his heart and feelings.
However, no one had told him what he should do if he was in love with someone. Thus, for a long time,
he made a lot of mistakes and hurt Nina. Although she chose to stay with him, the damage had already
been done and they still separated in the end. He had no idea how he should make things up to her.
Even now, he still felt like he was in the wrong.
The guiltier he felt, the more he wanted to treat Nina well.
He had just been doing it the wrong way all this while.
Percy sat and pondered for a long time before he finally decided to put the keys away. "Never mind.
You must be tired too. I''ll let you rest well today."
He drove off after he finished speaking.
The next day.
When Percy woke up, he realized that Nina had not replied to his text. He wondered to himself if he
had been blocked again.
ConTEent bel0ngs to N?v(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
Thus, he tried sending her another text. No red exmation point appeared after sending the text, but
Nina still did not reply to his text.
Percy had a nagging feeling that something was not right, so he tried calling Nina. When his call was
connected, he was informed that her phone had been switched off.
Nina would put her phone on silent when she went to bed, but she would also charge her phone after
putting it on silent. She would never turn it off. If it was turned off now, did that mean she was in
trouble?
He hurriedly got out of bed, washed up, and drove as quickly as he could toward Nina''s apartment.
As for what was happening elsewhere.
Luca had just finished making breakfast for herself when the door opened from the outside.
Surprise did not show on her face as she watched Luke walk in, because he had told her he would be
sleeping at the office after working overtimest night. He had also told her to prepare breakfast for him
when she made hers this morning.
Thus, she was not the slightest bit surprised to see Luke walking in.
"Breakfast is ready, Mr. Crawford." Luca did not bother saying hi to him and merely told him that she
had finished making breakfast.
"Okay. Let me use your bathroom for a bit," Luke said as he nodded.