Book 1: She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement Annulment

Chapter 14

Chapter 40: Justin Eating His Own Words

Justin had immediately realized that something was amiss when he heard someone locking the door. A short while later, when he started feeling unwell, he realized that he had been drugged.

There were a lot of people in New York who wanted to become his woman, and they had tried various methods one after another over the years. It was hard for him to guard against all of them. During a moment of negligence half a year ago, someone had also successfully drugged him with the most potent drug in the world.

However, he had been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so his physical fitness was stronger than most. Thus, he had managed to stubbornly suppress it with his willpower.

Therefore, he was confident that everything would be fine this time as well.

With the door locked, when he heard the sound of splashing water coming from the bathroom, he simply sat on the sofa, intending to see what exactly that woman planned to do.

To be honest, he didn’t quite understand her.

She frequently made contact with Pete and even allowed him to call her Mommy. It stood to reason that she intended to use his son to get near to him, yet every time she was faced with him, she would adopt an indifferent attitude. It almost made him think that he really was misunderstanding her!

But in the end, she suddenly colluded with his son this evening by drugging him first and then sending him a message asking him to come down.

And now, the two of them were locked in here. Was she finally intending to go all the way and have the final showdown with him?

For some reason, he was actually looking forward to it a little.

Just as he thought so, the bathroom door opened and a woman walked out surrounded by mist and moisture. Through the portière, what entered his sight first was a pair of delicate feet.

Her feet were bare, and her toes were round and fair. They looked a little cute.

Justin felt his mouth going dry. The desire that he had suppressed emerged a little.

Next, he saw her slender ankles and her straight and fair calves. The portière was pushed aside, and the woman stood there wrapped in a white bath towel.

Perhaps because she had just come out of a warm bath, her cheeks were flushed and her hair was damp. They stuck to her fair and slender shoulders as water droplets slid down from her face to her collarbones before sliding

further down and seeping into the bath towel.

In that instant, he felt a sudden surge of warmth in his lower abdomen, which made his brows draw together. He felt as if all the blood in him was surging into a certain place!

He clenched his fists and lost control a little for a moment.

His abnormal behavior also entered Nora’s eyes.

The cheeks of the man on the sofa were abnormally red, and his deep-set eyes were stained with desire.

He seemed a little less cold and standoffish than usual, and the mole at the corner of his eye gave him a bewitching allure that wasn’t usually there. The sight of him slumped on the sofa was actually exuding a sense of enticement?

Nora frowned and asked, “Why are you here?”

She had only just spoken when the man on the sofa abruptly dived toward her.

The huge force pushed her straight onto the wall behind!

Then, he suppressed his voice and said, “Since Miss Smith has already taken a bath and is exhibiting such enthusiasm, then I…”

Before he finished, he had already lowered his head and started kissing her neck. His scalding hot breath made Nora shiver.

The man’s domineering pheromones entered her nose forcefully. As he was very tall and had pressed right up against her, his back was slightly arched as he bent over.

An indescribable heat permeated her whole body, making her mouth gradually feel dry and hot.

As a doctor, she instantly understood something.

She tried to push the man away, only to find that he was very strong. He was still kissing her neck haphazardly.

Nora suddenly lifted her right knee and attacked the most delicate part of the man.

However, the man’s large, scalding-hot hands grabbed her ankles the next moment. His voice was hoarse and he sounded puzzled as he asked, “What’s the meaning of this?”

Nora snorted coldly. She leaped nimbly into the air and gave him a roundhouse kick with her left leg!

Bam!

Justin reached out his arm and blocked the blow.

Nora came at him again with a punch.

Upon feeling the sharp momentum of her fist coming toward him, Justin turned and ducked. The woman’s other fist then came toward him with a whoosh, scraping past his ear.

What speed!

In the blink of an eye, both of them backed away after exchanging a few blows and put some distance between themselves.

Nora frowned. There was concealed anger in her cat-like eyes. She was about to say something when the bath towel suddenly slipped off and she felt a chill all over her body.

“…”

Nora’s brain stopped working for a second. Then, she quickly squatted down to pick up the bath towel, only to find that it was twisted into a clump and couldn’t be straightened out quickly.

Seeing the man looking over in astonishment, Nora picked up the bath towel in a split second and flung it onto Justin’s face.

Justin was about to grab the bath towel and remove it when he heard her shout coldly, “I won’t let you out of this room alive if you take it off!”

Justin was astounded.

No one had ever threatened him like that in his whole life! However, the anger in the woman’s voice made him pause his movements.

She… didn’t want to do it with him?

Nora took the opportunity to hurriedly pick up a nightgown from the side. With her back to him, she put it on while saying, “I’ve also been drugged.”

Justin, who had keen senses, could hear the sounds. Judging from them, the other party had already put on her clothes. He took off the bath towel and stared at her with a frown. “Are you trying to say that it wasn’t you?”

The corners of Nora’s lips spasmed. Her gaze swept across a certain part of his body as she replied, “Don’t be too confident of yourself, Mr. Hunt.”

Justin was rendered speechless.

He used the bath towel, which he was holding with both hands, to block his body in a seemingly casual manner as he asked hesitantly, “If you weren’t the one that did it, then who did?”

Seeing that he was no longer being impulsive, Nora turned and went to the study. “Wait a minute.”

She dug out a set of clothes from the study and put it on. Then, she picked up her laptop and walked to the living room.

By the time she saw him again, the man had already returned to the sofa and sat back down. Apart from his cheeks that were still a little red, he looked fine. If it weren’t for the bulge at the bath towel around his waist, the man would have seemed like his usual self.

An impressed Nora secretly sighed and thought—’What powerful self-control.’

If it weren’t because she had been taking a lot of medicine since she was a child, making her immune to most drugs, Nora would probably have lost control!

Yet he had actually suppressed those distracting thoughts in just two minutes.

Justin’s deep-set eyes flickered with dim light when he glimpsed the look in her eyes. He said, “You still have time to change your mind, Miss Smith.”

Nora was puzzled.

That man was really overconfident of himself.

She said sarcastically, “I’m really not interested in you, Mr. Hunt. Even if both you and I fall victim to someone’s schemes and you’re standing completely naked in front of me, I still won’t feel anything.”

It really wasn’t her?

Justin actually felt a vague sense of regret. In spite of that, he showed no verbal mercy. “… It seems that you were the one who was completely naked just now.”

Nora was dumbfounded.

Her face tensed up instantly and she walked straight over. She placed her laptop on the table, opened it, and pushed it in front of him.

Justin was taken aback. “What?”

Nora slowly said, “Enter your account password and check the surveillance cameras, of course! Even if we don’t know who the person that drugged us was, surely we can find out who locked the door just now?”

Seeing how sure she was, Justin became increasingly displeased.

He tapped a few keys at random and then tapped the Enter key. Real-time surveillance camera footage instantly appeared on the computer.

Three people were currently standing at the door.

Their faces were nearly all pressed against the door, seemingly trying to hear what was going on inside…

Chapter 41: They Came Too Late!

All three of them were facing the camera.

However, ever since the two children realized the truth, they had deliberately started to wear face masks whenever they were in the hallways to prevent anyone from discovering anything.

The camera’s resolution was also very low, so it was impossible to differentiate between the two children right away.

Justin hesitated for a moment. Then, he pointed to one of the children first and said, “This seems to be Pete.”

Nora scoffed and said, “That’s my daughter.”

To be honest, not only were the two children exactly the same height, but their physiques were also identical. Nora was only able to recognize Cherry because of the Spider-Man outfit she was wearing.

Unconvinced, Justin asked, “Really?”

He couldn’t tell. As such, he fixed his gaze on Chester instead. When he did, a fierce murderous aura immediately emerged from him!

Nora’s sarcastic voice rang out beside him. “That seems to be your younger brother, Mr. Hunt.”

“…”

Outside the door, three heads were lined up in turn. Their heads were turned sideways, and they had their ears against the door as they quietly listened to the sounds in the room.

Thud! Clang! Bam!

The commotion inside the room made all three of them bewildered.

A puzzled Cherry and Pete looked at Chester. “Uncle Chester, what are Mommy and Daddy doing? Are they tearing down the place?”

Chester replied triumphantly, “They are ‘fighting’ with each other! It’s not something that children have to understand! In any case, their relationship will definitely improve after the fight!”

Cherry was a little worried. She asked, “Is the fight supposed to be this intense?”

Chester raised an eyebrow and answered, “Of course! Lives may even be ‘at stake’ here! The two of you are exactly the results of their fight in the past!”

“…”

Cherry was confused.

She frowned and asked, “But what if Mommy beats Daddy up so badly that he breaks?”

A sullen-looking Pete even became angry. “How can Daddy lift his hand against a woman? He’s too ungentlemanly! No wonder he can’t woo Mommy successfully.”

Chester was confused.

Then, he continued to listen to the sounds in the room for a while with great interest while secretly being impressed—Justin really was Justin after all. The commotion they were making sure was huge.

However, the sounds stopped after just a short while.

He pressed his ear closer against the door and asked in a low voice, “I can’t help but feel bad helping you guys hide the truth from Justin. When are you going to tell him the truth?”

Although Cherry was quick-witted, she didn’t have any concrete opinion on this matter. Thus, she looked at her brother.

Pete pursed his lips and answered, “I’ll tell him everything after Mommy cures Great-Grandma’s illness.”

Pete had thought it through very clearly. Blindly keeping this a secret was disrespectful toward his parents, especially when his mother was still searching all over the world for him while going through unimaginable mental torment.

If they didn’t fall in love with each other even after spending the next few days together, then he wouldn’t force them anymore.

Just as Chester was about to say something, the door suddenly shook—someone was banging on the door from inside.

A furious voice immediately came from within the room: “Chester, open this door right now!”

“…”

A minute later, the metal padlock was opened.

A furious Justin took Pete and Chester upstairs.

Nora didn’t care how he was going to punish Chester. Instead, she was currently sitting on the sofa and staring at Cherry. She asked sternly and severely, “Why did you do that, Cherry?”

Cherry hung her head and stared at her fingers, so intimidated that she didn’t dare speak.

Nora softened her tone and asked, “Do you want me to get together with Justin Hunt?”

Cherry nodded and replied, “Mommy, if you trick Da— I mean, Justin into becoming your husband, how impressive would it be when you take him out with you?! Not only is he handsome, but he’s also rich! Don’t you want that?”

Nora was rendered speechless.

She rubbed her temples and asked, “Whose lousy idea was this?”

Cherry unceremoniously sold her uncle out this time. “Chesty’s!”

Upstairs.

Chester looked at Justin, who was sitting on the sofa with a serious look, with trepidation. He swallowed and said, “J-Justin, I meant well. You haven’t been with any woman for so many years. What if you go crazy from excessive abstinence?”

He was so frightened that his legs were jelly.

He had only just clamped his legs together when he heard Justin’s deep voice: “As punishment, no living expenses for you for half a year.”

His words stunned Chester, and he blurted, “That’s it?”

He had thought that because he had plotted against Justin, going by the tyrant’s way of doing things, he would have castrated him and made him an invalid from the waist down.

Justin raised an eyebrow. “What, do you find it too lenient?”

Chester immediately reacted and jumped back anxiously. He replied, “No, of course not! That’s half a year’s living expenses! How am I going to buy game credits?! It can’t get any worse than that!”

After he fled, Justin leaned on the sofa. The scene that flashed across his mind, however, was him holding down the shoulders of the woman staying downstairs and kissing her.

He touched his lips—there, the smooth sensation still seemed to remain.

Then, he subconsciously thought of when the bath towel had suddenly dropped… Nope, he hadn’t seen anything. Not at all.

_

The next day.

Nora got Mrs. Lewis to pack their belongings early in the morning. Then, she went to the airport at noon.

Knowing that she was going to New York with Justin, Simon and Melissa also decided to take the same flight back. Upon return, Simon would be transferred to Hospital Finest in New York. There, the standard of medical care was much better than in California.

It was only upon arriving at the airport that Nora found out that they were actually taking a private jet.

An impressed Melissa remarked with a sigh, “Private jets have to be scheduled in advance, so everyone else has to make reservations in advance. For Justin to arrange for all these so quickly, the Hunts live up to their reputation as the number one family indeed.”

At the mention of the Hunts, Nora’s eyes flickered awkwardly a little.

Thereafter, Nora also got a taste of how meticulous of a person Justin was.

Justin had arranged a room for her that not only had a large and comfortable bed but also came with a shower room so that her sleeping needs could be fully met.

She slept the whole way there.

Two hours later, they arrived in New York.

Melissa went home with Cherry and the luggage first, while Nora and the hospital staff who came to pick them up accompanied Simon and Justin to Hospital Finest.

When they arrived at the hospital, Nora helped Simon to settle down in the VIP ward first. Then, she went to the ICU ward.

Justin had already sent her the elderly Mrs. Hunt’s medical records back in California when she first agreed to treat her illness.

Nora didn’t want to waste time. The day she saved the elderly lady’s life was the day that her son would return. As such, she wanted to go over and take a look and schedule surgery for her as early as possible.

But little did she expect to hear urgent beeping coming from the heart rate monitor inside the ICU ward the moment she reached!

At the door, a few people from Howard’s side of the family were confronting Justin and Pete.

Pete, who was wearing a mask and a cap, was looking at the ward anxiously.

Justin’s second uncle was pointing at Pete and yelling, “You jinx! Your Great-Grandma went into critical condition the moment you came back! Given her current condition, she won’t be able to undergo surgery even if we find Anti! It’s too late!”

Pete’s eyes reddened as he clenched his tiny fists.

Great-Grandma, you have to hold on!

Justin frowned. He had a look of consternation all over his countenance. His grandmother had obviously been in stable condition. Why would her condition suddenly deteriorate so quickly?

Beep…

Suddenly, a sharp voice reached them from inside the ICU ward.

“We’re losing her!”

The doctor’s shout also traveled out of the ward.

Chapter 42: Mommy, Save Great-Grandma!

The place was in chaos. The sound of doctors and nurses administering emergency medical treatment could be heard coming from the room.

“Mom!”

“Grandma!”

“Great-Grandma!”

Justin’s uncle’s family burst into tears. All of them were crying and they acted as if they were terribly sad.

“Shut up!” Justin barked fiercely, causing their sobs to stop abruptly. Justin’s second uncle, Raymond Hunt, immediately said reproachfully, “Never mind if you’re not crying because you’re cold-blooded, Justin. Why are you forbiddi—”

Justin shot him a glare and snapped, “Grandma isn’t dead!”

Raymond was so frightened by him that the words he was about to utter became stuck in his throat. His family also gradually stopped crying.

Justin pressed his lips together and stared hard at the ward.

Pete’s tiny body started to tremble. Even someone like him who was usually clever and quick-witted for his age was at a loss now. As if sensing his panic, Justin placed his large warm hand on his shoulder.

Pete gradually calmed down. When he turned to the side, he immediately saw Justin looking down at him from above. Justin’s voice was rich and mellow as he said, “Don’t be scared, Pete.”

Pete’s eyes reddened again and he nodded.

Nora had already walked over to the ward by then. She glanced at Pete. When she was on the plane, because she needed to sleep, she had stayed inside her room with Cherry the whole time and hadn’t interacted with Justin and his son.

Now that she was observing him so closely, she realized that his physique really was very similar to Cherry’s.

When she wanted to observe him a little more, the sounds in the ward caught her attention.

When Justin noticed that she didn’t enter the ward immediately upon arriving but instead looked at him, his heart sank. Did Anti also think that Grandma was doomed?

His voice was very low. For the first time, there was helplessness and pleading in his voice. He said, “Miss Smith, pleas—”

However, before he could finish, Nora had already retracted her gaze and entered the ward.

Hospital Finest was indeed worthy of it's reputation as a renowned hospital in the country. Ranging from their equipment to the doctors, it boasted the best medical conditions in the States. Even the nurses were highly professional.

Everyone moved in an orderly manner as they tried to save the patient.

“Prepare to apply electric shock!”

“200 volts!”

Bam!

“…”

Beep, beep, beep! …Beep… beep…

When her heart finally started beating again, the doctors and nurses breathed sighs of relief.

Nora, however, frowned. She had observed the patient’s various data previously…

“Mr. Hunt, the old Mrs. Hunt’s body is already at its limit. The cardiac arrest just now has caused multiple organ failures. If she doesn’t wake up in time, I’m afraid it’ll be life-threatening.”

The chief doctor, who was part of the emergency rescue efforts just now, took off her mask, revealing a bright and attractive face underneath. Her voice was calm and steady as she related the patient’s condition.

A frowning Justin asked, “Dr. York, Grandma has always been healthy. Why did this suddenly happen?”

At his question, Tina York frowned and let out a sigh. She replied, “Mrs. Hunt is already 80 years old after all. Her body is no longer as healthy as before.”

Justin looked at Nora and asked, “Do we proceed with surgery immediately?”

“No, you mustn’t!”

Tina shook her head before Nora could reply. Her voice was mild and gentle as she spoke, making her seem like a reliable person. She said, “Mrs. Hunt is too weak at the moment. We’ve only just snatched her back from the jaws of death. If she undergoes surgery now, the operation will bring further harm to her.”

Nora didn’t speak. Instead, she was carefully observing the patient.

Mrs. Hunt’s eyes were closed. She was thin and her face was filled with dense wrinkles. There was barely any sign of life in her as she laid on the bed.

Her body was indeed in an extremely weakened state.

However, if she didn’t undergo surgery, resulting in the blood clot in her brain impeding blood circulation for a prolonged period of time, it was possible that the chances of her waking up in the future would become very low.

While she was thinking, another quarrel broke out outside the door.

Raymond and his family had also heard what Tina said. Infuriated, Raymond exclaimed, “Does that mean my mother is doomed?! Oh, why is your life so hard, Mom? We’ve already told you that the boy that Justin brought back is an ingrate, yet you refuse to believe us and insisted on keeping him by your side! But in the end, he so cruelly pushed you down the stairs instead! He might as well have killed you!”

Raymond was 55 years old this year. He looked thin but energetic, and had a shrewd look in his eyes that came from many years of life experience.

His son, Roger Hunt, had the Hunt's exclusive deep-set eyes.

However, the look in his eyes wasn’t as deep and unfathomable as Justin’s. On the contrary, he was always smiling and gave off a feeling as if he was up to no good.

He sighed and choked on his sobs as he said, “Don’t say that, Dad. Pete isn’t a normal child after all. He’s mentally ill. He didn’t mean to suffer a relapse. He didn’t want to hurt his grandma,either.”

There was a boy in their side of the family who was in the same generation as Pete. Because he was fat, he was nicknamed Fatty. His cheeks were so fleshy that even his eyes had disappeared. Fatty rushed up to Pete, stretched out

his chubby hand, and sent it flying toward Pete’s face fiercely while he shouted, “You little freak and murderer!”

Justin was about to ask Nora for her opinion after hearing what Tina said. However, at such a critical moment, his uncle and his family were actually ignoring his grandmother’s condition and were starting to attack Pete again.

When he saw Fatty raise his hand and send it toward Pete’s face,

Justin’s eyes darkened and he couldn’t restrain the anger that he had been suppressing anymore. He lifted his foot and knocked Fatty onto the ground as fast as he could!

The kick caused Fatty to slide a meter's away on the ground. As he was fat, his blubber acted as a buffer. Moreover, Justin had also deliberately kept his strength under control, so he didn’t suffer any internal injury.

However, the pain nevertheless made him burst into tears. He crawled and scrambled over to Raymond and hid behind him. “Save me, Grandpa! Uncle Justin’s trying to kill me!”

Raymond shouted angrily, “Justin, what are you doing?!”

Anger roiled in Justin’s deep-set eyes. The beauty mark at his eye was cold and ruthless as he said, “If you can’t keep your grandson in check, then I’ll do it for you.”

Raymond yelled, “Why don’t you keep your son in check first instead?! He caused his own grandmother’s death! That’s absolutely unforgivable!”

Justin, who had an imposing aura all around him, took a step forward and said, “Pete didn’t kill anyone. I trust him.”

Roger stood in between him and Fatty and his father. He let out a sigh that was as gentle as ever and said, “Justin, there’s no use even if you trust him. It’s obvious from the footage from the surveillance cameras in the living room that Pete had pushed Grandaunt. We’ve already given the footage to Grandpa, and they’ve decided that they’ll hold a family meeting this weekend and expel Pete from the Hunts!”

Apart from the servants at home that testified that Pete had quarreled with his great-grandmother, the most fundamental evidence supporting the accusation that Pete had pushed her was the surveillance camera footage.

The video footage was taken from the back. In the video, the elderly Mrs. Hunt was falling while Pete’s arm was outstretched… No matter how one looked at it, it simply looked as if Pete had pushed her down.

They had both witnesses testimonies as well as material evidence.

Therefore, they had only one option left now, and that was to save Mrs. Hunt and have her regain consciousness. She was the only person who could prove Pete’s innocence!

Although his son had never spoken up for himself, Justin trusted him from the beginning to the end!

Pete stared hard at the ward. He couldn’t hear the others reprimanding him at all. The only thing he cared about was Great-Grandma.

Seeing the elderly lady lying motionless, his eyes reddened. He suddenly rushed into the ward, hugged Nora’s leg, and pleaded, “Mommy, save Great-Grandma!”