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“What! She threw up?”
Albert’s face clouded with worry as he heard the hotel staff’s words.
He immediately strode towards the elevator, one leg already stepping in, when he suddenly remembered Florence. His body stiffened.
A second later, he turned to Florence. “It’s getting late. You should get some rest. I’ll come get you for the meeting tomorrow morning.”
Florence’s eyes flashed with undisguised sarcasm, and she let out an icy laugh. “No need. As I said, I’m not a Morris. I plan on sleeping in tomorrow. If you disturb me, I’ll simply pack my bags and head back to Ravenport.”
With that, Florence turned and slammed the door shut, leaving Albert with nothing but a cold, indifferent back.
Albert’s lips thinned into a tight line. He wanted to knock on Florence’s door and try to appease her, but then he thought of Isabella, who was feeling unwell. After a moment of internal struggle, he went to see Isabella.
“Albert, I feel awful,” Isabella said, visibly relieved at the sight of
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him.
She had been worried that Florence, that conniving woman, might actually succeed in seducing him.
“I’ll have the doctor come and take another look at you,” Albert said gently, holding Isabella in his arms.
Isabella leaned against his chest and murmured, “No need. Just stay with me. I already feel a little better.”
Although Albert agreed to stay with Isabella, he couldn’t help but picture Florence’s cold departure. He was so preoccupied that he barely registered anything Isabella said to him.
Florence was just about to go to bed when her phone suddenly rang. It was Ruby.
Seeing the caller ID, Florence hesitated for a moment but still answered the phone.
“Madam Morris, why aren’t you asleep yet?”
Ruby’s aged voice quickly came through the phone. “I just heard that someone died in the hotel. You weren’t frightened, were you?”
Hearing Ruby’s concerned words, Florence felt a warmth in her heart.
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“Madam Morris, don’t worry, I wasn’t scared. The woman’s body has already been taken away.”
Relieved, Ruby said, “That’s good. How is Albert planning to handle this? Put him on the phone.”
Florence was silent for a moment before saying to Ruby,
“Madam Morris, I’m not sharing a room with him. But I know how he’ll handle it.”
Florence then told Ruby about the autopsy results and how Albert was going to deal with the situation.
Ruby, however, didn’t mention the dead woman again. Instead, she asked Florence, “You and Albert are husband and wife, why aren’t you sleeping in the same room? Did he make you mad again? Just you wait, I’ll call him right now and give him a piece of my mind.”
Florence quickly reassured Ruby, “Madam Morris, it’s me who doesn’t want to share a room with him. Don’t be angry. I just need some time to think things through.”
She was worried that if Ruby called Albert at this hour and heard Isabella’s voice, she might come storming over to break
them up.
If that happened, how could she catch Albert and Isabella red–handed?
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Finally, Florence managed to persuade Ruby, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
After hanging up the phone, she received a message saying that Albert had left Isabella’s room and moved to a separate room.
The message was from the private investigator she’d hired to keep an eye on Albert and Isabella.
If Albert was caught sleeping in Isabella’s room, she planned to confront them the next morning and capture photographic evidence of them in bed together.
Unfortunately, Albert was proving to be too cautious.
It seemed like she would be sleeping in tomorrow after all. Florence consoled herself with the thought that this was only the first day.
Even if she wasn’t in a hurry, Isabella would eventually get anxious and reveal her true nature.
Perhaps he had taken her words to heart, because Albert didn’t come to wake her the next morning. Florence slept in until almost ten o’clock.
If she didn’t have lunch plans with Charles and Tyler, she would have happily stayed in bed all day.
Downstairs, Florence was about to call Charles when she spotted
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Isabella, her arm intimately linked with Albert’s.
Isabella noticed Florence immediately. A flash of smug triumph crossed her face, quickly replaced by a look of panic as she hastily let go of Albert and nervously turned to Florence.
“Florence, I almost tripped just now! Luckily, I managed to grab Albert’s arm. Don’t get the wrong idea!”
Albert had also seen Florence. His handsome face stiffened, and a rare flicker of guilt crossed his features.
A cold, sarcastic smile played on Florence’s lips.
Isabella’s eyes darted around before settling on a friendly smile. She walked over to Florence and, with the air of a close confidante, took her hand. “Albert and I were just about to grab some lunch. Why don’t you join us? What are you in the mood for?”
Anyone unaware of the situation, hearing Isabella speak like this, would think that she was Albert’s wife and Florence was just a casual acquaintance.
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