Aiken usually fooled around, but when he became serious, he meant business.
His question awakened Rory.
Rory had never investigated what really happened that night.
His wine was spiked at the time. Coincidentally, Lowell was on his day off. Rory staggered back to his room and called someone. Soon, the door was pushed open by a woman, who knew him and called his name, saying that she had fallen for him a long time ago.
He was drugged and his senses were impaired. He was slow in reaction when the woman threw herself at him.
Besides, Elmore had been pushing him to get married at the time. That night, he didn’t think much, and one thing led to another. In a word, he slept with her.
But truth be told, Rory didn’t remember much of what happened that night. Driven by the drug, he went out of control and didn’t even know how things started and when they ended. He only knew that when he woke up the next day, he saw Becky lying beside him.
He took a quick shower, settled on the chair, lit a cigarette, and then made the decision to get married.
It was indeed him who proposed that they get married. Becky had initially refused him because she felt that he didn’t need to take responsibility for what happened. Rory, on the other hand, thought that she was just playing hard to get, so he didn’t say much and simply insisted on getting married.
Married life didn’t make much difference to him. Although they lived together, he was too busy with work and was rarely home.
He had always thought that he was set up by Becky that night, so he hadn’t laid a finger on her throughout their three-year message.
It was the first time in his life that he had been set up like this. He knew that she loved him, so he couldn’t let her get her way.
But now, Aiken suggested that perhaps Becky was also a victim that night.
Rory had never thought about that. After the incident, he wanted to marry Becky so that his grandfather would stop nagging him. So he never even asked Lowell to investigate the whole thing.
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