Chapter 1 Homecoming
It was a dark night when heavy curtains shrouded the room in complete darkness.
Two bodies were pressing against each other in bed. The man’s breathing was heavy; he had a sturdy physique, and his manners were rough.
Nicole was so in pain that there were a few times when she had wanted to push the man away. However, upon thinking of her mother, who was in the hospital, she forced herself to fight back the urge to resist him. She gritted her teeth, letting him have his way with her again and again…
After a long, long time, the man finally fell into a deep sleep. Enduring the discomfort, Nicole staggered out of bed, put on her clothes, and left.
Wearing exquisite makeup, Queenie Anderson walked to the room door at a leisurely pace. “How did it go, sis? Did you service Young Master Joseph well?” Blatant smugness showed in her eyes when she saw Nicole’s sorry figure. So what if Nicole is pretty and excels in her studies? In the end, she only deserves to substitute for me, doesn’t she?
Nicole’s voice was cracked and gravelly as she gritted her teeth while lifting her stubborn and pretty little face up. “Don’t forget what you’ve promised me, Queenie.”
“The 200,000 has been transferred to your account,” Queenie replied while tossing Nicole’s cell phone back to the owner. Then, in a mean voice full of disdain and mockery, she added, “I won’t forget about that, of course. That’s the money you’ve prostituted yourself for, after all.”
Her venomous words stabbed Nicole in the heart like a dagger, but Nicole couldn’t be bothered that much. After taking back her phone, she rushed to the hospital.
After Nicole completely disappeared from her sight, Queenie let out a cold snort and opened the door to the suite with a wiggle.
Joseph Mann was the Mann Family’s youngest son. Despite his unsavory reputation, his father, Robert Mann, was very fond of him, for Joseph was born when Robert was in his older years. Joseph was plied with drinks tonight, so he wouldn’t know about the switch. When he sees the blood in bed, he’ll definitely take responsibility for what has happened! If it weren’t for Joseph only preferring virgins, I wouldn’t have given up the opportunity to Nicole, that b*tch! Queenie thought to herself.
However, as soon as she undressed and got into bed, the man in bed suddenly awakened. At once, he seized her throat with his strong, large hand, exuding a terrifyingly murderous aura through his every pore. “Who are you?” His voice was husky, with a slight trace of lust from him having just slept with someone, but his demeanor was unusually commanding.
A dumbfounded Queenie looked up, only to find unexpectedly that the man on top of her wasn’t Joseph. He was Colton Gardner, the person currently at the helm of the Gardner Family—a family for whom the Mann Family was far from being a match…
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Five years later, Nicole, dressed in a long and slick trench coat, walked in high heels among the crowd at Goldwick Airport, drawing the attention of many with her beautiful face and smoking hot figure.
Upon returning to the familiar city, Nicole couldn’t help falling into a trance. Although she had gotten 200,000 that year, by the time she arrived at the hospital, her mother had passed away. According to the doctor, the hospital had called her many times when her mother was in her dying moments, but all the phone calls had been cut off.
Nicole nearly had a breakdown when she heard that, for when the hospital was calling her, she was in Joseph’s bed, and her phone was in Queenie’s hands! In other words, it was Queenie who had robbed her mother of her last chance of survival!
At first, Nicole had wanted to end her life after making the arrangements for her mother’s funeral. However, she was held back by the baby in her womb then…
