Zoe's heart still palpitated at the thought of that man, and till now her body still felt sore and feeble. It was too much for her to recall the lustful images of last night.

That man...was more threatening than a wolf, indeed!

Seeing that Zoe was lost in a trance, Yilia scanned her up and down like an X-ray machine with her eyes skimming over the traces on the back of her neck that she could conceal by no means. An unsettling flutter coming out of nowhere hit her heart.

The man must be a tyrannical, possessive guy, given he had left such explicit kissing marks where no one could ignore. Plus, if he could book the presidential suite in the most expensive hotel in B City, it was improbable that he was so poor that he could not even afford a hooker.

When she thought of this, she said apprehensively, "According to your words, the man was handsome, and he could afford a presidential suite. So, he must be appealing to women, right? Then why did he touch someone he didn't even know? What if he got himself into some trouble?"

How could Zoe know what that man was thinking? she didn't want to think of the man at all if she could!

Yilia stared at her, "Was it because ... he coveted your beauty?"

Zoe, "..."

Zoe knew if Yilia continued guessing like this, the story would be made even more ludicrous. So, she quickly stopped Yilia, "You must also be very tired after looking for me all night yesterday. Please, go back and have a rest. I'm fine. You don't need to accompany me. Have you handed in your artwork yet? Hurry back to work if you haven't."

She stopped a taxi and shoved Yilia into it.

Yilia was forced into the car and said with a shrug, "Are you sure you're okay? Hey, it is necessary to go to the pharmacy and get some medicine..."

"I got it. I got it. Sir, please drive." Zoe closed the door and watched the taxi driving away before she stood on the curb for a long time. At last, she heavily exhaled the breath she had been holding, and her eyes turned red despite all her endurance.

How could she be okay? After all these years of keeping her virginity for Lucas, she now had sex with another man in befuddlement. How could she be okay? How could she?

A passerby looked over. She lowered her head in haste, swallowed back her tears, took another taxi, and left the place.

However, one thing she didn't know was that the black Maybach parked at the intersection a hundred meters away just now never left the place till the end.

The slender man in the car had his eyes fixating on her throughout the whole time without moving away for a second.

When she left, Carlos withdrew his gaze and said to Henry in the driver's seat, "Go check her past. I want to know everything. In detail."

No wonder he couldn't find out where she was even after he turned S City upside down all these years. It turned out that she came to B City a long time ago.

After twelve years, she seemed to be different from what he remembered.

"Yes, Mr. Holt," Henry peered at his face and said, "I don't know who passed on the news of your return to your grandfather, but he called yesterday and asked you to go back." At last, he told Carlos honestly about the call with the Old Master yesterday, "As for what you did with that lady yesterday, the old man had also learned about it."

Carlos' eyes glazed for a second, but he didn't ask anything further. All he said was, "Go back to the Holt Family."

...

Zoe had only been in the hotel for one day before she got a call from her uncle, Jon Edwards.

She was relieved to receive the call, She knew from the moment she uttered the word 'divorce' to Lucas, another storm would be waiting for her in the Edwards family.

Jon Edwards' company had been on a downward ramp in recent years. It seemed to be on a slight upturn at the moment, helped by the relationship of marriage with the Reeses. Ergo, her uncle would not allow her to divorce Lucas on her own.