Substitute Bride For Young Master
Chapter 21's
“Alice!”
Raymond stood up and cupped his fiancee's hands together. He knelt down and looked at the woman with a pleading expression.
“Do not do this, dear ... do not force me to choose, I can not ...”
“Why can't it? Does your friend mean so much that you can't decide whether to come with me to Boston or stay here to wait for him?”
“I'll come with you, but please give me until tomorrow morning. Okay well? I promise I'll—“
“You know I can't wait until tomorrow. The event there will start at ten in the morning, I have to arrive early for the clean gladi.”
“Then ... I will catch up with you when the business here is done, how? Send us your location later, I'll find the nearest hotel and we can meet again.“
Alice narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms. He had never seen Raymond like this before. For three years they had been in a relationship, the man followed his every word and request without ever denying a single time. However, this time his fiancee was so adamant because of an old friend he had just met yesterday. There was clearly an unusual relationship between them. Her instincts as a woman signal danger, and obviously she doesn't want to compete with anyone for love.
“Forget, Raymond. I've said it quite clearly earlier, come with me today or you can stay to wait for Lorie, but never contact me again.”
“Alice!” Raymond stood up and hugged his lover tightly. “Do not do this, I beg .. you know I love you very much, but this time alone .. please understand me. This time only ..”
Alice sighed and closed her eyes, then pushed Raymond's body to loosen his embrace.
“Good, I'll delay departure until later tonight. At seven. But only that. The rest, I will still leave with or without you,” he said.
Raymond smiled widely and nodded quickly. “OK. Thank you, dear .. thank you. I love you so much.”
The man felt tremendous relief. Supposedly Lorie wouldn't hide in the room all day, ‘ right? He will solve his problem with Lorie before afternoon and leave for Boston with Alice.
***
In the musty-smelling stuffy room, the two gunmen who were standing closest to Lorie panicked slightly. The air bubbles that usually appear with a regular rhythm are now frothy like there is a vortex of air moving up from the pool of water. Meanwhile, Lorie's hands and feet stiffened and moved irregularly, swinging right and left.
Hanging with your head submerged in water for hours on end is not a mild form of torture. Even a man could not necessarily hold it that long.
“Do we have to release it?” ask again.
His colleague who was only wearing a black T-shirt replied, “There is no order yet from bos.”
“But the boss said not to let him die.”
The two men hesitated and stared at each other. Finally the T-shirt called his other friend and asked for his opinion.
“Just let go, if he dies, then we will also die,” said the man in the thick hat when he saw the water bubble had stopped and there was no movement again from Lorie.
Finally when the person worked together to lift Lorie's head and put the water barrel aside. True as they had guessed, the bound woman had already completely fainted when finally the bond that made her body turn upside down was released.
A loud thumping sound rang out as Lorie's body slammed onto the floor. He was left on a cold tile. After a few minutes lying curled up like a shrimp, Lorie coughed softly and spewed out water that filled her stomach and lungs. The intense pain pierced his chest every time he took a breath, making him grimace in pain and choke several times.
The woman set her roar of breath hunting and closed her eyes. In an instant the cold floor gnawed at the exposed surface of his body.
His two hands tied behind his back felt numb and numb. I don't know how long he's been lying on his back. Ever since the sunlight slowly faded from the ventilation hole, he had already stopped counting the time.
After his back and thighs began to feel frozen and as hard as the tiles under his body, he groaned softly and tried to lie on his side. But the sound of a cruel and cold laughter instantly made his body stiffen and stop moving. Before long, a burly hand gripped his chin very tightly, forcing him to look up at the grim face that was grinning widely and staring with interest at him.
“How, have you wanted to contact Alex Smith?”
“Go die,” muttered Lorie while grinning cynically.
The torn wound on his face looked many times scarier from being submerged in untreated water, perhaps even already infected, but his irritating demeanor made Rafael desperately want to strangle him to death.