Asleep, Stanley remained still without giving her any response.
Just then, Wendy’s phone lit up with an incoming call.
It was Luna.
Wendy answered quickly, and Luna’s panicked voice came through. “Wendy, where are you? You need to get back to the dorm right now–Halsey’s in trouble!”
What? Halsey was in trouble?
Wendy immediately hung up and carefully slipped out of Stanley’s embrace. She quickly gathered her clothes from the carpet, slipping them on before hurrying out of the room.
Wendy left, and soon after, the door to Imperial Garden clicked open, and someone entered silently..
It was Luna.
Luna had arrived.
She walked into the room, taking in the sight of Stanley, still asleep on the couch, and the clothes scattered across the floor. It was clear to anyone what had happened the night before.
Stanley and Wendy had slept together.
Luna lifted her hands to unbutton her shirt and slowly slipped it off. Then, she laid herself down next to Stanley, gazing adoringly at his handsome, noble face. This was the closest she had ever been to him, and she could hardly believe it.
Stanley, the richest man in Hovendale, was truly too breathtaking.
Her heart pounded in her chest, the sound of it echoing in her ears.
Luna reached out to pull the blanket off Stanley, intending to slip into his arms.
But just then, Stanley seemed to stir. He slowly opened his eyes, waking up.
Luna quickly asked, “Mr. Hawk, you’re awake?”
When Stanley’s eyes opened, he immediately saw the unfamiliar face next to him. He sat up, his cold, piercing gaze locking onto Luna. “Who are you? What are you doing here?”
“I’m Luna,” she said, her voice steady but laced with uncertainty. “We’ve met before. I’m Wendy’s classmate.” Stanley’s memory clicked. She was indeed Wendy’s classmate.
“Mr. Hawk, last night, your secretary came to find me and asked me to come to Imperial Garden to look after you. So, last night we…” Luna trailed off, covering herself with a hand, her face flushed with embarrassment.
Stanley rubbed his temples. He couldn’t remember much from the night before.
All he remembered was leaving the Crone family to find Wendy at the hospital, but she had refused him. He had barely managed to hold onto his sanity and returned to Imperial Garden, but after that, everything became a blur.
However, he did remember Wendy coming.
She had been in his arms the night before, lying beneath him, tangled in passion.
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Chapter 209
But as he opened his eyes, Wendy was nowhere to be found
Had he…slept with Wendy’s classmate instead?
Stanley’s gaze fell on the sofa, where a bloodstained mark remained on the cushion–a girl’s most precious symbol of her first time.
His face hardened, turning dark and forbidding. “Put your clothes back on.”
In the study, Zayn rushed in, breathless. “Mr. Hawk.”
Stanley, still wearing the clothes from the night before, looked grim. “Did you go to the hospital to look for Wendy last night?”
“I did,” Zayn replied. “I even showed Mrs. Hawk the footage from the vacation villa’s surveillance cameras and told her your left hand was injured because of her. I tried to get Mrs. Hawk to come to Imperial Garden, but…she didn’t agree. She went back into the ward.”
Zayn had seen Wendy enter the room last night.
What Zayn didn’t know was that after he left, Wendy had come out and headed to Imperial Garden.
A bitter, self–deprecating smile crossed Stanley’s face. She hadn’t come, just as he had expected.
Last night, he had been with her classmate, not her.
When Stanley had seen the bloodstain on the sofa, he knew it wasn’t Wendy.
Because Wendy had lost her first time long ago.
Stanley didn’t even know what he had been hoping for. How foolish of him to imagine that she might actually come!
