After dashing out of the room, without looking for Orson, Lily went out of the club all by herself.
There is a twenty-four hours convenient store nearby. After drinking the whiskey in a shot, Lily is a little giddy and thirsty. She then touches the pocket money and walks over to buy a bottle of water.
She sits on the bench beside the convenient store. Although the evening breeze is blowing coolness, she doesn’t feel cold at all. Instead, her body is ignited with an unusual heat.
Lily unconsciously loosens a few buttons on the neckline and pours a gulp of water inside. She wanted to calm down the burning fire in her body, but it doesn’t work at all and she feels it is even more and more intense.
She hugs her knees with both bands. The heat gradually spread all over her body that even the blood becomes hot, burning both inside and outside of the body.
She involuntarily wanted to tear off her clothes. In order to prevent from people seeing her anomalous, Lily by support of her hands on the wall, walks into a narrow alley.
The dizziness hits her suddenly. Besides alcohol, there was still something wreck on her sense.
It was like swarms of ants moving around her limbs, extremely itchy, biting her from time to time. It feels hot and painful, like a moist of air flow is locked in her body that it couldn’t find its way out, which makes her feel queasy all over.
Lily is about to be tortured by this unclear feeling. She tries hard to widen her eyes, but still blurs and couldn’t see anything.
She unscrewed the water bottle anxiously with a pair of trembling hands, which accidentally sprinkled to her body. The cold liquid stimulates her nerves, but is still useless.
Painful, the burn pains.
She simply stretches out her hand to pull off all of her clothes. By pulling the neckline two or three times, her delicate skin is revealed.
The strength in the body has been drawing out, which make the whole person weak. She suddenly recalls the glass of wine in the room and the conversation in the toilet. It was real.
She seems to have been drugged.
….
On the contrary, after Lily left, Rex also left to return to Orson’s private room, but he doesn’t see that figure.
He frowns and sits back calmly on the sofa. Orson glances at him and leans closer, “Lily has been looking for you, have you seen her?”
Rex says nothing. He picks up the glass to take a sip of out. However, he doesn’t drink much, it was more like disguising him by action.
Orson has been with him since they were in the college. He understands his response, “Are you pushing her away again?”
“No.” He finally speaks this time.
Orson raises his eyebrows and says nothing more.
Time passing minute-by-minute, his vision consciously or unconsciously fall on the door. He looks at the watch from time to time during the chat, with the frequency that was much faster than usual. However, that person who run out, still haven’t showed up.
After a long time of waiting, Orson was worried about her. Realizing that Rex is still pretending, Orson couldn’t help but takes the phone out to dial to Lily. The phone is finally answered after ringing for a while. However, it comes a strange woman’s voice.
“Or, Orson…”
Her voice is very low yet a little panting. Orson’s expression changes in a second, “What’s wrong with you?”
Beside him, Rex’s gaze looks over with a suffocating pressure. Neither Michael or Alex dare to speak out.
“I, looks like I’m drunk….”
Orson turns to look at Rex, “You let Lily drink?”
The latter’s eyes flickers and his face sinks. He stands up from the sofa and walks to Orson in two steps to take over the phone, “Where are you?”
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