"Janet Shao, what the hell do you think you're doing?" asked Daniel. He's voice sounded cold as snow, and Janet felt she'd been wronged, her eyes turning red in an instant.
She thought that Daniel never cared about her, and he didn't seem to comfort her not even in this situation, when she was terrified that she almost fell to the ground.
If she hadn't knocked on the balcony's window a few moments ago, she would not have slipped and fallen from the second floor.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you two," she said. Janet, looking more pitiful than ever, turned the other way around and again started to lower herself on the outer edge of the balcony.
In that moment, Daniel's heart sank. He dragged her back down, and asked her, "What are you doing now, Janet?"
"Since you are not willing to see me," she answered, "I'm leaving!" Tears couldn't stop falling down on her face. She was very scared of animals. Last time, when they encountered the Samoyed dog, he had left her behind without mercy.
But Janet's behavior made Daniel mad because he had no idea why she cried. 'What is she crying for?' he thought to himself.
He gripped her wrist vigorously, dragged her until they reached the bedroom's door, and then kicked her out. "Get out!" he shouted.
Janet sniffled woefully and thought, 'Am I stupid? No, I won't leave!'
She shook off Daniel's hand, took off her shoes, jumped onto his bed and quickly covered her head with the quilt.
There was a sudden silence in the bedroom.
After about five minutes, Janet got her head out of the quilt to see what was going on, but instead saw a pair of bright, malicious eyes staring at her.
"Ah!" Janet screamed and again covered her head with the quilt.
Then she felt like she was being lifted up in the air. Daniel put Janet and the quilt on his shoulder and then threw them out of the bedroom.
Kate, who was making the bed, was shocked when she heard the noise.
Seeing Janet come out of the quilt, Kate was surprised, and wondered how Janet managed to enter the house.
The two lovers stood together, looking at the girl who was now laying on the ground with scornful eyes. Even Janet, who was thick-skinned, was embarrassed at this scene.
She held her waist with her right arm and, without uttering another single word, walked down the stairs towards the front exit.
She thought to herself, 'Mom*, I don't live up to your expectation. I give up.' (TN*: sworn mother)
Janet opened the door of the villa, took a deep breath, looked at the dark sky and then chocked back the tears that were about to burst out of her.
She closed the door, and said to herself, 'Don't cry, Jane! You were asking for it! What a fool...'
Janet then got into her car and drove towards her own villa.
Mansion No. 9 was silent again. Kate looked at the quilt on the ground, picked it up and was just about to throw it away.
"Go back home. I'm unable to fall asleep if someone else is here," spoke Daniel. The scene that Janet left, holding her waist, kept playing in Daniel's mind.
He turned around and went back to his bedroom. Kate's voice came behind him, "Daniel, it's very late..."
Daniel took his phone out of his pocket and called Spark, "Spark, come here and drive Miss Song back home."
Then he hung up and closed the bedroom's door.
Kate stood outside his bedroom now, looking at the closed door and clenching her fists.
She knew that Daniel was using her. 'Does he really love the little girl?
Daniel Si, how can you do this to me? You abandon me after you use me! What do you take me for?' thought Kate.
When Janet parked her car in the garage, Samuel called her, "Jane, where are you?"
"Dad, I'm in the garage. I just arrived."
"It's late now. Your mom and I are not coming back tonight. Go to bed early!"
"OK, dad."
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