Chapter 180 Chaos
When Emily reached the rest room door, awkwark sounds were already emanating from within.
Zander's heavy breathing mixed with Lucy's confused moans could be heard clearly even through the door.
Emily smiled coldly, satisfied, and turned to leave.
Instead of returning to the original private room, she elegantly walked to another section of the Jade Pavilion, reserved a table for herself, ordered several exquisite dishes, and specifically requested a bottle of fine red wine.
She told the server, "I'll dine here. Keep it close to that area, there's going to be quite a show soon."
The server looked puzzled but respectfully withdrew.
Emily raised her wine glass, gazing at the scenery through the floor-to-ceiling windows, savoring the red wine with evident pleasure.
Calculating the time, it should be about now.
Sure enough, about half an hour later, hurried footsteps echoed in the corridor.
Lauren, Erica, and Calla rushed toward the rest room, with Erica whispering, "It should be done by now. Let's go get Emily and say she's drunk and needs to go home to rest."
Calla looked triumphant, "Right, the deed is done. No matter how capable Emily is, she'll have to obediently marry my son!"
Emily set down her wine glass, the corner of her mouth curving into a sarcastic laugh. She leisurely cut her steak while listening to the good show.
A piercing scream erupted from the rest room, echoing throughout the entire corridor.
This was immediately followed by Calla's roar, "What is this! Zander! How are you sleeping with Lucy!"
Lauren's voice joined in, full of disbelief, "Lucy? How is it, Lucy! Where's Emily? Where did Emily go?"
Erica was completely panicked, "Impossible! Emily clearly drank that glass! How could it be, Lucy!"
When the door opened, light from outside streamed in, and Zander groggily saw that the person lying beside him was Lucy, not Emily. He immediately flew into a rage, "You, Johnson family people, played me! Where's the Emily you promised?"
He roughly pushed Lucy away, crudely pulling on his pants, pointing at Erica's nose and cursing, "You did this on purpose! Deliberately used Lucy to trick me! You, Johnson family people are all liars!"
Calla was trembling with rage, "I knew we couldn't trust you, Johnson family people! Now look what happened, my son's been set up!"
Lucy had completely come to by now. Seeing her disheveled state and Zander's greasy face, she instantly broke down.
"Zander! You bastard! You've ruined me!" She screamed and lunged at him, her nails leaving several bloody scratches on Zander's face.
Zander winced in pain and raised his hand to retaliate, but Calla stopped him, "Zander, don't stoop to this woman's level!"
She turned to glare viciously at Lucy, "You're the one who willingly slept with Zander, and now you have the nerve to play victim?"
"I didn't! You drugged me! You harmed me!" Lucy sobbed, her makeup already a complete mess.
Calla sneered, "We clearly drugged Emily, not you. With your looks, what gives you the right to sleep with my son!"
As she spoke, she suddenly grabbed Lucy's hair, "You little slut, you must have seduced my son!"
The two women immediately began wrestling, Lucy clawing at Calla's face while Calla pulled Lucy's hair, the scene completely out of control.
Lauren and Erica wanted to break up the fight but were too frightened by their fury to approach.
Zander stood to the side, his face grim. He turned to Erica, "Where's Emily? Where is she now?"
Erica shook her head frantically, "I don't know! She should have been..."
Zander roared and kicked over a nearby chair, "You Johnson family people are all liars! This isn't over!"
Just then, Emily emerged from another private room, having finished her meal and wine, elegantly dabbing her mouth with a napkin.
Her appearance stunned everyone in the corridor.
Erica was the first to react, shrieking, "Emily, how are you here?"
Emily raised an eyebrow, "I've been dining here the whole time. Is there a problem with that?"
Seeing her completely unharmed, Zander's eyes flashed with greed and resentment. "Emily, don't you move!"
He strode toward her but faltered when Emily fixed him with a cold stare.
Emily said coldly, "Mr. Griffin, I advise you to stay away from me, or don't blame me for not being polite."
Zander sneered, "Who do you think you are? I'm telling you, your family has already agreed to let you marry me and took my money. Today, you owe me an explanation!"
Lauren and Erica also surrounded her, trying to block Emily, "Emily, you can't just leave like this! Look at Lucy!"
"What does that have to do with me? She's the one who climbed into Zander's bed—blame me for that?"
"You!" Erica was too angry to speak.
Just then, a tall figure appeared at the end of the corridor.
Nathan, dressed in a black suit, walked over with a stern expression. "Ms. Johnson, Mr. Windsor sent me to pick you up."
Lucy suddenly screamed, pointing disheveled at Nathan, "Emily, this is the man you're keeping on the side! You dare to cheat on Charles!"
Calla chimed in, "I knew it! This woman is no good!"
Zander leered at Emily even more, "What? Isn't Charles enough? You need other men, too? Why don't you come with me instead? I guarantee I'll satisfy you!"
Lucy seized this opportunity to scream hysterically, "I'm going to tell Charles! I'll make him see your true colors! Make him dump you, you promiscuous woman!"
Hearing this, Emily finally laughed out loud.
She walked up to Lucy, looking down at her condescendingly, "Lucy, you'd better worry about yourself first. You've already slept with this waste, Zander, other than marrying him, what other choice do you have?"
Lucy's face went ashen, her lips trembling as she couldn't speak.
Zander immediately protested, "Who says I'm marrying her! I don't want this kind of woman!"
But Calla suddenly spoke up, "Zander, marry her! You must marry her!"
"Mom!" Zander looked at Calla in disbelief.
Calla snorted coldly, "Marrying Lucy is better than marrying Emily, who's already had children. Who knows how dirty this unwed mother is!"
Zander's face twisted with anger, but he didn't dare disobey Calla. He could only glare viciously at Lucy, then lunged at Emily like a madman, reaching out to grab her collar, "If I can't have you, I'll destroy you!"
Nathan was about to step forward when an even faster figure suddenly appeared.