"What do you think? How should I punish a very... very... bad woman?" said Charles.
In the presidential suite
Leo had been waiting outside the door since he was asked to leave, and then he went straight into the room right after Linda had left.
He was panicky and anxious while he was waiting outside the room. He regretted failing to stop Sophia from doing stupid things.
"Are you all right? What did she tell you, Sophia?" Leo asked Sophia right after he set foot in the room.
"Nothing important, " answered Sophia. She was sitting on the chair, quiet but sullen. Her face was a shade of corpse-like pale, and she seemed to be lost in thought.
'Was it wrong to fall in love with Charles?
It wasn't, was it?'
Sophia asked herself over and over again. She was wondering whether she should give up, or not.
"Stop thinking about it. Let's put everything behind us. Young Master Mu and Lady Linda aren't going to do anything to you. Are they?"
Asked Leo. He was thankful that they hadn't notice the glass of water on the table. Leo had noticed it when he had gone into the room the first time. Since there was still water inside the glass and it was still where it originally was, he knew that no one had found out about it.
"Well, I don't care if they find out about what I was up to. What could they do to me?" Sophia snorted.
"Okay, okay. Keep your temper under control. You're the one who did wrong this time, so stop acting so innocent. Have some rest now, " Leo told Sophia.
"Stop telling me what to do. Just go away, and leave me alone, " Sophia responded angrily. Sophia was supposed to sleep in this presidential suite with Charles, especially if everything had gone according to plan. Even though that wasn't happening, she still wanted to sleep here because it would somehow comfort her.
She was very upset at Leo because he wasn't on her side. He thought that what she had wanted to do was wrong. She wanted to drink something cold to calm herself down, so she reflexively reached for the glass of water on the bedside table and picked it up without thinking before drinking it all up.
"Sophia... you've..." Leo was shocked by what Sophia had done.
"What? What's wrong?" Sophia wondered.
Leo had wanted to stop Sophia, but it was too late.
Then, Sophia had realized that she drank the glass of water that she was supposed to have given to Charles. The one with the drug in it...
She had increased the dosage of the drug so as to make sure that Charles would really want to have sex with her if he had drunk it.
The effect of the drug was to increase a human's sex drive to the point where he or she wouldn't be able to think of anything but to satisfy his or her lust. Sophia thought that if she would get lucky, she might even conceive Charles's child tonight. However, everything was in vain now. What's worse, she had drunk the water with the drug in it.
"What should I do? Is the drug really strong?" Sophia held Leo's hands and asked.
"Yes, it is... very strong, and it should take effect in about five minutes..." Leo didn't know what to do, either.
Sophia was so reckless. How could she forget that the water was drugged? She was even the one who had put the drug in it.
Now that the drug would take effect any minute now, none of them could do anything to stop it.
Sophia panicked. Before she could think of any solution, she felt her whole body heat up, which meant that the drug was already showing its efficacy.
She felt hot... like, really hot...
All she wanted now was to put something cold on her body.
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