The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 918

"Miss Ye, I really don't…" Coral quickly urged herself mentally to come up with an excuse. She groaned inwardly as she nervously scanned Holley's face. She could sense that Holley seemed to know her scheme. She was desperate now in groping for the right words in her mind. But before she could muster a word, Holley coolly commanded, "Alright, just save it. You don't have to explain. I don't want to hear it."

She then gave a slow and wicked smile. Her knowing stare kept lingering at Coral, who remained motionless under her scrutinizing gaze. With a sinister smile still plastered on her face, Holley sweetly crooned, "Now… Do you still want to go for a walk?"

"Oh! No need," she stuttered with a wry smile. Coral was smart enough to heed the detectable suspicion and sarcasm lacing Holley's voice. She had no way but to give in. "I feel tired now. I want to go back and take a rest."

Coral thought that she had managed to conceal her plan well enough, but it turned out that she only succeeded in hiding nothing under Holley's nose.

She knew that insisting on going out to execute her plan to call Charles would signal a red flag on her status as Holley's enemy.

Her determination to sacrifice herself in helping an acquaintance died down after she gradually knew how powerful Holley was, so she reluctantly decided to forego her intention to help.

If she dared go against Holley's will, her fate wouldn't be better than that of Sheryl.

"Have a good rest," Holley remarked sarcastically as she gently patted Coral's shoulder. Then she started walking into the lift. She found it amusing seeing Coral still standing there as if she didn't hear anything. "What? You're not planning to go up?"

"I'm coming!" Coral snapped out from her thoughts and nervously entered the lift. She was trembling inwardly. But as soon as she heard the ding sound of the elevator, relief washed over her. She straightened herself up and then gingerly stepped out. Her heart was still pounding hard. Though she felt uneasy, she urged herself to turn back and to look at Holley.

She was able to catch the odd smile Holley gave her as she heard her say "Rest well" a moment before the door closed.

That night Coral couldn't fall asleep. She was thinking of the possible actions Holley would do against her. And knowing Holley for quite some time, she could easily guess that she had her men already posted at her door to keep an eye on her. Holley would definitely not hesitate to torture her if she found her acting suspiciously again.

It was during breakfast when Coral went down for food. All the girls were free during the day, as the party wouldn't start until night. Of course, the term "free" only meant that they had nothing to do, but not that they were free to move around. The moment Sheryl saw Coral coming down, she winked at her to ask the question that they both knew. Coral responded with a slight shaking of her head and a bitter smile. Sheryl understood. And the two men in black behind Coral reaffirmed her answer—Coral failed.

"Sher, come and try the biscuit. Quick! It's really nice!" Susan was excited while she shoved the food to Sheryl's hand. She seemed to be not bothered at all by what had happened last night.

Sheryl looked solemn. No one could make anything out from her face.

Susan was completely unaware of the situation. She felt worried upon seeing how serious Sheryl looked. "Sher, what is going on? Are you okay? Are you still worried about what happened last night?"

Unable to get any response from Sheryl, she naively tried to console Sheryl, "Don't worry. Coral agreed to help us contact Mr. Lu, right? Mr. Lu will be here anytime soon.

So let's have our breakfast now."

"If she succeeded, we wouldn't be still sitting here having breakfast now," Sheryl explained to the carefree girl. For the entire night, she had waited for Charles and couldn't let herself close her eyes to get a wink of sleep. She knew that if Coral succeeded in letting Charles know, he would come immediately at any cost.

She had anticipated that and believed Charles was about to show up any minute.

But that shimmer of hope was eventually doused out after she realized that Coral's plan had failed.

Her mind refused to accept this nagging feeling. She desperately needed to validate this hunch because she might be possibly wrong. She held onto the tiniest spark of hope at the bottom of her heart even though she already had the answer in her mind. She confirmed with Coral again, only to find out that they indeed failed.

Susan finally realized how dire their situation was and she grew anxious. "Then that means Coral failed to contact Mr. Lu?" she mumbled shakily.

"What do we do now? Are we really going to attend the party?"

Her anxiety manifested itself as a series of questions that bombarded Sheryl. "Don't worry. There is going to be some other way," Sheryl consoled the poor little girl.

Before they could come up with "some other way", they heard Holley's people scurrying over with gowns in tow. They handed Sheryl a nicely designed backless piece in a gold-tone fabric. And Sheryl couldn't help vividly imagining her glorious and gorgeous self with this piece of garment.

Then they gave Susan a very-usual-not-fancy-nor-ugly-looking pink gown.

Sheryl gritted her teeth at the contrast of the two gowns. She openly showed disgust towards that stunning piece of clothing. 'It seems that Holley is so anxious to wrap me as a package in that delicate gown and present me to the buyers, ' Sheryl thought.