Chapter 1731 Not Surprised At All

Nina felt her consciousness fading when she heard that. To remain conscious, she clenched her

hands into tight fists so her nails would dig into the flesh of her palms. “In your dreams! Pierre

Mallory, why do you think I dared to appear here? It's because it's that time of the month for me. So

you can continue dreaming about doing whatever your heart desires with me!”

"What?" Pierre did not get the message and knotted his brows together as he asked.

The bargirl sitting beside him got the memo and whispered to him, “Mr. Pierre, she means a

woman's time of the month.”

Pierre immediately understood everything. His brows were furrowed together. He wanted Nina, but

not under these circumstances.

Nina glared at him. She seemed to want to say something else, but the drugs paralyzed her and

rendered her unable to say even another word aloud. Finally, she lost consciousness and collapsed

to the floor.

Pierre ordered, “Put her on the couch.”

When the two bargirls heard him, they stood up and walked toward Nina. Nina had a petite frame,

which meant the two bargirls only needed to exert a little bit of strength to pick her up and place

her on the couch.

As Pierre stared at the unconscious woman, there was no sign that he was going to do what he had

just threatened to do to her previously. All the excitement he felt had vanished after hearing what

she said just now.

“You two, go check if what she said is true,” he said.

The two bargirls had astonished expressions on their faces as they said, “Mr. Pierre, is it necessary

for us to check something like that?”

"What? Are you saying that I should go instead so I can lose interest completely?” As Pierre stood,

he said, “I'm going to the washroom. You two conduct a check on her. This woman's very

calculating. There's a 90 percent chance that she’s lying to me.”

As the two bargirls watched Pierre walk toward the washroom, they had no choice but to check if

Nina was lying.

Several moments later, Pierre returned from the washroom and asked, “So, what's the outcome?”

“Mr. Pierre, she really is on her time of the month...” the bargirl replied.

An ugly expression appeared on Pierre's face. He had anticipated that Nina would turn him down

and rather choose death than obey him, which was why he specially prepared a drug for her. He had

thought that he had prepared for all possible scenarios, but he did not expect her to have one last

trick up her sleeve.

That was a miscalculation...

Pierre was furious. He gazed at the unconscious woman in front of him and ordered, “Take her to

my car.”

Awkward looks appeared on the bargirls’ faces. One of them said, “Mr. Pierre, why don't you get the

servers outside to do that? Both of us are girls. It'll be a little difficult for us to carry her.”

Pierre had an ugly expression on his face as he took out a stack of dollar bills from his wallet. He did

not want any of the men outside to touch Nina's body!

He had already tolerated enough during the years Nina was together with Percy. He was no longer

willing to see any men stand beside her and come into any form of physical contact with her.

“If you two carry her to my car, all this cash will be yours,” he said generously.

A sparkle appeared in the bargirls’ eyes when they saw the stack of money. Without discussing it

between themselves, they both said, “Alright, Mr. Pierre. We'll make sure we carry her to your car.”

When Pierre heard that, he strode ahead of them and pushed the door open so he could leave.

The two bargirls hurriedly pocketed the money and picked up Nina so they could leave. They would

never be able to earn such a large tip even if they accompanied customers to drink for the entire

night.

They both carried Nina and followed Pierre. They heaved a sigh of relief when they placed the

unconscious woman in his car.

Pierre gazed at the unconscious woman and fastened the seat belt for her so that she would not

bump or scrape herself when still unconscious. Finally, he closed the car door and drove off into the

night.

As the two bargirls stood by the curb and watched the car leave, one of them asked, “Oh, right. Mr.

Pierre had quite a bit to drink as well, didn't he? Will he be alright driving in this state?”

"Why are you so worried? It's not like this is the first time he’s driving after drinking. Even if he gets

caught, the police will avoid him when they realize who he is,” the other bargirl replied.

“You're right. And we've already earned more than enough today. Come on, let's go split the money

between us,” the bargirl stopped worrying about him and left with her companion.

When Percy finished working, he drove over to Nina's apartment.

He counted the number of floors in the apartment and noticed that the lights in Nina's apartment

were not switched on.

“Is she asleep?” Percy asked in a low voice as he picked up his phone and tried sending Nina a text.

The morning after the night he slept with her, he had secretly taken her phone, unlocked it, and

unblocked his number. Then, he had deleted any traces of evidence he left behind so she would not

find out.

He knew Nina's habits. If she were asleep, her phone would be on silent. Thus, even if she were

asleep now and he sent a text, he would not have to worry about waking her up.

Percy waited for five minutes and still did not receive a reply from Nina.

“Looks like she really is asleep,” he said as he gazed at his phone with a gentle look in his eyes.

“But I want to see you,” Percy continued saying as he took out a copy of Nina's keys from his

pocket. Luke had used his connections to help him get this set of keys.

Before this, he had not made sense of his feelings for Nina and did not think too much about them,

chalking them up to feelings of possessiveness. However, he realized after that he was not being

possessive. Nina had taken ownership of his heart and feelings.

However, no one had told him what he should do if he was in love with someone. Thus, for a long

time, he made a lot of mistakes and hurt Nina. Although she chose to stay with him, the damage

had already been done and they still separated in the end. He had no idea how he should make

things up to her.

Even now, he still felt like he was in the wrong.

The guiltier he felt, the more he wanted to treat Nina well.

He had just been doing it the wrong way all this while.

Percy sat and pondered for a long time before he finally decided to put the keys away. “Never mind.

You must be tired too. I'll let you rest well today.”

He drove off after he finished speaking.

The next day.

When Percy woke up, he realized that Nina had not replied to his text. He wondered to himself if he

had been blocked again.

Thus, he tried sending her another text. No red exclamation point appeared after sending the text,

but Nina still did not reply to his text.

Percy had a nagging feeling that something was not right, so he tried calling Nina. When his call

was connected, he was informed that her phone had been switched off.

Nina would put her phone on silent when she went to bed, but she would also charge her phone

after putting it on silent. She would never turn it off. If it was turned off now, did that mean she was

in trouble?

He hurriedly got out of bed, washed up, and drove as quickly as he could toward Nina's apartment.

As for what was happening elsewhere.

Luca had just finished making breakfast for herself when the door opened from the outside.

Surprise did not show on her face as she watched Luke walk in, because he had told her he would

be sleeping at the office after working overtime last night. He had also told her to prepare breakfast

for him when she made hers this morning.

Thus, she was not the slightest bit surprised to see Luke walking in.

“Breakfast is ready, Mr. Crawford.” Luca did not bother saying hi to him and merely told him that

she had finished making breakfast.

"Okay. Let me use your bathroom for a bit,” Luke said as he nodded.