Chapter-4[Truth is...?]

Adam from the corner of the door saw Lilliana laying on the sofa alone. Her breathing was rapid while her body was curled.

Her face was flushed red.

Adam without thinking about anything ran toward Lilliana and placed his hand on her head. He even forgot the humiliation and anger he had suffered before or even the fact that the girl laying in front of him had cheated on him.

Lilliana's head was burning. Adam quickly removed his hand and went toward the phone that was on the table in the living room for calling the service in the Hotel. He quickly called the Hotel Service and his call was answered in several seconds.

-Hello Sir, how may I help you?

The attendant voice rang in Adam's ears.

"Quickly send a doctor to my room! As soon as possible!!"

Adam said as fast as he could. His voice contained fear and panic.

-Yes Sir! Just wait for some minutes, the doctor is on his way.

The attendant on the other side of the call too understood the dire situation just from Adam's voice.

"Yes."

Adam placed the phone down and went beside Lilliana. Only now did he calm down a little and realized how abrupt his actions were. He sat on the ground with his back leaning on the sofa.

'What am I even doing…?'

What was he thinking of helping the girl who cheated on him? Did he forget his anger and the humiliation he had suffered?

He looked at the face of the girl who stood with him when he needed someone's shoulder to lean on most. The face that he loved the most felt unfamiliar to him but with a sour feeling in his heart.

"Why did you cheat on me? Was I not able to make you happy? Or was it because I was still not a person eligible to enter the top class? Or was it because I took you with me on every business trip?"

His voice tinged in sorrow as he asked those questions. But all he received as an answer was rapid breathing.

Adam shook his head.

'No…I am wrong. I should have never loved someone this much. Father was right for this one…'

Adam remembered how his Father had told him once before he traveled to China, "Son, I know you want to succeed on your own, so I will give you some advice. Never fall in love too much. Love is poisonous to people like us who live on the edge all the time. It would break you too much if you fell in love."

Should he had followed his Father's advice, would the outcome be different?

[Sigh~ Dear Child~, you need not think too much.]

Celeste who was silent the whole time spoke in a calm tone.

Adam looked at the ceiling.

"Then are you expecting me to accept it just like this?" Adam asked, angrily. "I had loved a single person my whole life. I even did so many things for her. I missed several important things in my schedule so that we could go out together and have fun. I fought with the guys who were trying to woo her."

He looked down, tears falling from his eyes as he vented his feelings.

"Was it all for nothing? Hahaha…I guess I just had the wrong eye for people."

[Hush my child. You don't have the wrong eye for the people.] Celeste said.

"What do you mean?" Adam asked confusedly.

He had calmed down a little bit as he had said the things that he was holding in his heart so he was able to think calmly now, albeit not much.

[My child~, have your mate ever created a situation that had made you suspicious of her in the past?]

"No." Adam instantly answered. Since he had started dating Lilliana, there was never a situation where he was suspicious of her having ulterior motives toward him or colluding something behind his back.

[Then, why are you reaching the conclusion so easily?]

"Celeste, I have seen it with my own eyes. Lilliana showing a loving expression to that bastard Jiang Lan and his hand roaming on her body." His voice trembled. "A-are you telling me that my eyes failed me?"

[Nope~ your eyes showed you things correctly. But what you saw was just the one side of the things.]

"What does that mean?" A confused look formed on Adam's face but at the same time, he too began to understand the hidden meaning in Celeste's words.

[What I mean is, look at the other side of the situation too. Don't fall to conclusions early on, and think rationally.]

Adam fell into thoughts. The entire scene replayed in his mind, from how he saw Jiang Han sitting on the sofa, to how both Lilliana and Jiang Han were sitting closely.

'Wait a minute…now that I think about it, Lilliana's reaction at that time was weird.'

'That was her…drunken face…'

Lilliana's flushed face appeared in his mind whenever she had indigested too much alcohol. The face matched the one he had seen when she was with Jiang Han.

'And…how did she feel sick like this?'

He had just seen her sitting with Jiang Han, but then, how did Lilliana become sick all of a sudden? While it may be more than 2 hours since he had left the hotel, it was not enough that Lilliana would become sick and her head would be burning.

'On the top of that…where in the fucking hell is that bastard?'

And, where was Jiang Han? If Lilliana cheated on him, then Jiang Han should still be in this room, and knowing how many times had Jiang Han tried to humiliate him in the past, that bastard would have never missed the opportunity of seeing Adam's despaired face or his humiliated face.

*Ring*

The doorbell rang. Adam stood up and walked toward the door. His eyes gleamed in clarity. He was now more than 70% sure that what he saw and what conspired were way too different.

In front of the door was an old man with a white beard wearing a doctor's robe. He had a brown-colored briefcase in his hand.

"Hello Sir, I am Doctor Mo who is working with the hotel."

Doctor Mo introduced himself and extended his hand. Adam shook Doctor Mo's hand.

"Hello, Doctor Mo. I am Adam Walker, I have called you because the health of my partner was not alright." Adam showed Doctor Mo inside.

Doctor Mo was surprised when he saw the youth in front of him. Adam's face was looking as though it was sculpted by the gods and the red eyes gave Adam a mystical charm. And the mysterious feeling he was emitting added another charm to him.

But what surprised Doctor Mo, even more, was the ragged clothes with blood on them that Adam was wearing and the tear marks going down his eyes to his face.

What could have happened to the youth to suffer like that?

Doctor Mo wanted to ask many questions but buried them inside. After all, he was a doctor with way too little authority in the Hotel. If he by chance offended a big party living in the hotel, then he can't expect them to save him.

On the contrary, the hotel would sell him for sure to keep its fame and popularity on the track.

After entering the living room, Doctor Mo started diagnosing Lilliana. While he did that, a frown appeared on his face. He took a machine out of his briefcase. The machine was a simple machine in which one had to release their breath to check their alcohol level.

Doctor Mo placed that on Lilliana's lips as he breathed entered the machine. Slowly, the number on the screen increased and when it reached above a certain number, the frown on Doctor Mo's face turned into surprise.

He turned toward Adam who was worryingly looking over them while biting his nails. When Adam saw Doctor Mo looking at him, he stopped biting his nails and focused his direction on Doctor Mo.

"Mr. Adam, your partner…how should I say…" Doctor Mo tried to put the result into words, but no word came out of his mouth.

"Doctor Mo, please be clear with your words," Adam warned. He was already dying of worry and the doctor in front of him was trying to play games.

Doctor Mo's body trembled as a cohersion fell on top of him. Sweat appeared on his forehead. His lips quivered. But he still opened his lips to answer the question.

"Mr. Adam…your partner has been drugged. And her body is still not able to sustain the drug easily." Doctor Mo informed as his body trembled. "I also think that she has taken strong aphrodisiac which has made her body hot."

'What kind of mess have I gotten into? The drug she is being infected with is strong and not only that, but I also suspect that she has taken strong aphrodisiac too…'

Doctor Mo was questioning why had he taken this job. It was not something uncommon for rich people to use drugs on others or for contenders to use drugs on their enemies or their partners to affect them mentally. And now, a little doctor working in the hotel was getting into this mess.

Adam's body trembled. His nails grew as they got dug deep into his hands, and blood dripped from his hands. His eyes ominously glowed. Anger rushed to his head.

'How dare that fucking bastard do that!!!! I am going to rip him!'

His anger reached ninth heaven. From the doctor's explanation, he was sure that Lilliana was drugged and the scene he saw before was something Jiang Han had prepared for him to watch.