Lost in Mr. Preston's Temptation novel Chapter 41

Did the power go out?

Clara hurriedly turned on her phone’s flashlight. Through the windows in the hallway, she saw that the streetlights were still on. Then she heard Donny’s voice from downstairs saying that a circuit breaker had tripped and that he would go and check it out.

There was still time tomorrow, she would give him the suits then.

Clara was about to take them back when she vaguely heard movement in the bedroom.

It sounded like something had been knocked to the ground.

She was afraid that circuit breaker tripping so suddenly had caused Ethan to bump into something. She knocked on the door and asked, “Ethan, are you okay?”

“Mr. Preston?”

“...”

After knocking on the door a few times and not hearing Ethan’s reply, Clara got a little anxious.

Just as she was about to kick the door open, Ethan’s muffled voice finally came out, “The door is unlocked, come in.”

“Okay.” Clara felt relieved when she realized that he was okay.

She entered the room using her mobile phone’s flashlight, but the flashlight only made a small circle of light in the large room, and she didn’t see Ethan.

She soon noticed the bathroom was closed and walked over, “Ethan, are you in the bathroom?”

“Yes” A tall figure could be seen through the bathroom glass door. “When the power was cut, I found that I couldn’t open the bathroom door. Try and see if it can be opened from the outside.”

“Okay, wait a minute.”

When Clara shone the mobile phone flashlight on the bathroom door, she saw that a floor towel was stuck under the door.

“Ethan, I think you accidentally disturbed the floor towel while you were closing the bathroom door.” Clara tried pulling it, but she couldn’t pull it out no matter how hard she tried.

She stood up, “Why don’t you step back, and I’ll try to break the door open.”

“Are you that strong?” Ethan was skeptical.

“...... I’ll try.”

She put her mobile phone on the chair, letting the light shine on the bathroom. Then she took a deep breath, and then slammed her body hard against the bathroom door.

The first time she threw herself against it, her shoulder hurt, but she didn’t break the door open.

Ethan keenly heard her sucking in the chilly air. She was obviously in pain “Don’t try anymore, call Baxter to help.”

“It’s okay, I’ll try again.” Clara rubbed her aching shoulder, changed her angle, and threw herself against the door using her left shoulder.

The door suddenly opened. She hadn’t held the door handle, and her body losing its support, fell into the bathroom.

Ethan used the dim light from outside to reach out a hand and prepare to help Clara, he didn’t expect her to crash into him, knocking him back a few steps.

Clara didn’t know how the shower turned on, but water sprayed out from the shower head on the ceiling and instantly drenched the two.

Ethan’s back had suffered a violent impact. His wound opened and he groaned in pain. He fumbled behind him with his hand and quickly turned off the shower.

Clara was shivering from the freezing water. Under the light, she could see that Ethan entire body was wet, his black hair was stuck to his forehead and his expression was dark and grim...... and very ugly.

“So... Sorry, I didn’t hold on to the door handle. “ Clara took the towel from the shelf and handed it to him with trembling hands.

“I asked you to open the door, no to take my life,” Ethan said coldly. He used the towel to wipe off the water droplets on his face and let out another groan.

“What’s the matter?” Clara asked nervously.

Before Ethan could answer, she saw that the gauze wrapped around his chest was soaked in red blood and immediately understood what had happened.