The distance from the elevator to the private room door wasn't very far, just two hundred meters.
Daisy Ginger walked with great difficulty.
Countless times, she'd wanted to turn and leave.
Yet she still followed Robert Stephens to the doorway of that room.
The door was tightly closed. Robert glanced at her pale face, then said calmly to the person behind him, "Open the door."
Three words, bringing an indescribable pressure to Daisy Ginger.
She pressed her lips together and watched the man take out the room card.
And just as the man was unlocking the door, the door was suddenly opened from inside, and Charlotte Smith's voice came out in a fluster—
"It was Miss Ginger who instructed me."
"Shut up."
"It was Miss Ginger who instructed me."
...
Inside the room, Edward Stephens was standing in the doorway, wearing a bathrobe. When he saw Daisy Ginger standing there with Robert Stephens, his pupils contracted sharply for an instant.
That was...
