Chapter 35
Cassandra’s sharp gaze swept over the dozen or so bodyguards. “Cameron, didn’t you say you’d give me whatever I wanted? If you agree to this condition, I’ll go with you.”
She lifted her head, locking eyes with Cameron. Her stare nearly tore him apart.
Cameron said, “What if… What if I were the one who stripped her?”
“Then, I’ll cut your hand off myself. I mean it,” Cassandra replied.
He pressed his lips tightly together and stared at her coldly. “Cassie, if it weren’t for how deeply we once loved each other, I’d almost think you liked women.”
“Think whatever you want.”
“Is Daisy really that important to you? You chose her over your husband without hesitation!”
Cassandra almost laughed. “Professor Myers and Daisy–one man, one woman. Listening to you, I sound like some depraved person who swings both ways.”
“I want to be the only one in your eyes. I want to always be your number one.”
“Then you shouldn’t have used Daisy to threaten me! Especially not like this…”
The nightmare from years ago replayed in her mind. After that incident, Daisy fell into chronic depression for a long time. She had tried to kill herself countless times by taking sleeping pills and hanging herself. Once, she had even almost jumped off a rooftop.
She hated this “dirty” version of herself.
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Daisy had cried, sobbing on that rooftop as if her soul was breaking. She clung to Cassandra and cried, “Cassie, I don’t want to be haunted by this nightmare anymore.”
Cassandra had patted her back, telling her, “Then, forget it. Erase it from your mind completely. From now on, that day will never exist. You just went to a party, performed on stage, and then came back to the dorm with me and slept through the night.”
It took Daisy three years to finally crawl out of that darkness. But today, everything was dragged out again.
“I had a female hotel staff member undress Daisy No man touched her,” Cameron said.
“What did you drug her with?”
“Ether. The dosage isn’t high. She should wake up in about an hour. It won’t harm her body.”
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Cameron gently tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear and said softly, “Cassie, tell me. How did you slip out of the hotel without anyone noticing, with all those surveillance
cameras?”
“Maybe I know how to turn invisible,” she retorted.
“Cassie, tell me the truth,” he insisted. “I need to know. Otherwise, you’ll just run again in the future. I might not find you, but Daisy’s a public figure. I can always find her. You don’t want her to be hurt again, right?”
At that moment, there was a knock on the door. Harold came rushing in. “Mr. Dorsey, we checked all the ventilation shafts and ducts. There’s nothing.”
Cameron frowned. “It wasn’t the stairwells nor the ducts… Are we sure there are no blind spots in the hotel surveillance?”
Harold replied, “I’ve checked each one carefully. As long as Mrs. Dorsey appeared anywhere in the hotel, there should be a record. We only found footage of Mrs. Dorsey and Ms. Graham checking in yesterday and the footage of Mrs. Dorsey going up the elevator today. After that… she completely vanished.”
Cameron raised an eyebrow. “Cassie, can you really turn invisible?”
No, that was impossible. He just hadn’t figured it out yet.
Cameron scanned Cassandra from head to toe like an X–ray. Her clothes were neat and clean, not like someone who had hidden in trash or laundry to be smuggled out. And her black high heels were spotless. Her room was on the 26th floor, so climbing in those was impossible.
Wait. Those black heels… They looked familiar…
Harold suddenly recognized them. “Mrs. Dorsey’s shoes! I saw them on the elevator’s surveillance footage!”
Cameron’s head snapped up. He seemed to remember too… It was Ryan, carrying that woman who had her head covered…
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