Chapter 165
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Tonight, her strangeness was the same as the night he was punished to kneel in the middle of the rainy night.
Derek's eyes darkened, and his eyelids drooped gently as if he were suffering from some great dissatisfaction.
"Bertha, I came with Zillah tonight for a reason, can you hear me explain?"
Bertha withdrew her gaze, she didn't look at him at all, just spoke. "The villa will be open for you until eleven o'clock. If you don't come back on time, then sleep on the street. Let go."
Derek's eyes turned red.
What a heartless and meaningless woman.
Why can her heart be as hard as iron?
He was so depressed that his chest was tight, he could only let go helplessly.
As soon as Derek let go, the car door slammed shut, and the car sped away.
Derek stayed behind to inhale the smoke. He coughed twice and stood alone, watching the car disappear into the night.
"Boss."
Liam walked over.
Derek returned to his previous cold appearance, he asked extremely annoyed. "What?"
Liam bowed his head, his expression very unsightly. "I'm sorry Boss, I couldn't catch up with Laura. When I got there, she had completely disappeared as if someone had taken her away early."
"Check the cameras."
Liam bowed his head low. "The path to the bamboo forest in the hotel garden is a dead corner for surveillance cameras. Some cameras that can record at the entrance have been blacked out in advance. I sincerely apologize..."
Derek wasn't about to scold him either. "I can't blame you, from Laura's appearance to the fact that she used a knife to stab Bertha and finally escaped, it was all planned. I just don't understand, what is the purpose of the person behind doing this?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang.
Seeing that it was Zillah's call, he hesitated but eventually accepted her call.
"Cousin, are you still not leaving? The party hasn't ended yet, you're pretending to be my boyfriend, are you going to leave me alone like that?"
Derek didn't want to say a word to her.
He was about to hang up when Zillah spoke again. "You want to know where Laura is, right?"
He coldly narrowed his eyes.
"You know?"
Zillah smiled evilly. "Not only do I know, but I can also take you there. I think you must have a lot of doubts about Laura's affairs, so how about you come to solve those mysteries yourself?"
Derek pursed his lips, his eyes narrowed. "What do you want?"
"I hope you can help me attend the party until the end, there are only five minutes left. Just such a small request, you probably won't refuse, right?"
Zillah smiled slightly and continued. 'Wait until the party is over, I will immediately take you to meet Laura, how about?"
Derek didn't answer right away.
He looked at the clock, there was just over half an hour left until eleven o'clock...
"Okay, where are you?"
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Half past ten at night.
The charity party at the hotel garden finally ended.
Zillah walked towards the door, glancing at the man next to her.
He was as cold as ever, and she could see the anger in his eyebrows.
Zillah was a little curious thinking about how he pretended to be weak in front of Bertha just now.
"I thought you had changed, but it turns out you only changed in front of someone. I'm curious, I don't know if you're just acting in front of her, or if you like her. "
Derek walked straight, held his head high, and his clothes were neat, as if he didn't hear what she said, he walked away without saying a word.
Being ignored, Zillah did not feel embarrassed, she continued to walk forward and then got into the car with him.
Liam sat between the two of them in the backseat.
Because Derek himself refuses to sit with Zillah, he is forced to become a wall between them.
The car's speed is breakneck, it only takes eight minutes for them to reach the suburbs.
It is a deserted place, and the small wooden house is also very sophisticated.
Along with the bodyguards that Zillah brought with her, the four of them entered the small wooden house together.
In the wooden house, there was only one oil lamp, the light was very dim.
Derek looked around the house and saw bedsheets, blankets, pillows, and wardrobes. They were all clean and showed signs of having been lived in before.
It seems Laura has been living here since she was released from prison.
Thinking about it, Derek glanced at Zillah mockingly. "Unexpectedly, Helga's house can bring people out of prison without anyone knowing."
Zillah smiled. "Of course, she's your lover, I saved her just like I'm helping you."
'She is not my lover." Up to now, she is still not the lover in his heart.
Derek answered without hesitation.
At this moment, Laura was sitting on the wooden bed, no longer messy or crazy like at the party, except for the wound on her face, she seemed to have become a different person.
Hearing Derek's unhesitating denial, Laura cried soundlessly, her tears falling drop by drop.
"What's wrong, Derek? You loved me before, what did Bertha do to you? Have you forgotten the promise you made to me? You said you would love me forever."
As soon as he mentioned this, Derek's anger rose terrifyingly.
Because he was stupid, he ignored the love that Bertha had shown him all those years, and at the same time, he blamed her, he said insulting things to her.
Thinking of the words he had once insulted Bertha, he just wanted to slap him a few hard times himself.
He bowed his head to hide the sudden feeling of guilt that welled up in his eyes, and he ignored Laura's words.
Liam answered for him. "Laura, maybe you forgot. Boss has never broken a promise. You were the one who betrayed him first. Now that you say it like that, don't you feel ashamed?"
Laura was stunned for a moment, then suddenly she weakly knelt at Derek's feet.
"Derek, I was wrong. After breaking up with you, I regretted it. When I learned that you married Bertha, I regretted it even more. Please give me a chance."
She cried bitterly, her eyes were very sincere.
Derek didn't speak.
