The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 68 Where Is Susie?

Charlotte was waiting in front of the door when Susan arrived. The moment she saw her, she quickly went u p. "You’re finally here, Susan.”

"How is Luke right now?" Susan asked, her voice thick with anxiety.

"Let’s go inside first," Charlotte said as she led Susan into the house.

When they were inside the house, Charlotte fetched her a glass of water when she saw the layer of sweat o n her forehead. "My brother is in his room. Here, have some water."

"Thank you," Susan took over the glass and finished the water in one gulp. Then, she said, "Let’s go see your brother now. I’m worried about him."

"Sure," Charlotte grinned before leading Susan to a room.

Susan walked into the room and saw Luke lying on the bed. Just when she walked closer to the bed, she heard a loud bang from behind. She turned her head, and to her horror, the door was closed.

What happened?

Susan tried opening the door but it was locked from the outside. Her heart somersaulted as a bad feeling rose from her stomach pit.

"Who's there?" At the same time, a voice rang out.

Susan turned her head around and caught the wave of panic flitting across Luke's face.

"Susie? What brings you here?" Luke asked, disbelief accenting his tone.

However, Susan was too startled to respond to his question. Although the exhaustion was apparent on Luke's face, he was far from being a person who had not consumed anything for three days.

Susan could not help herself and asked, “Didn't you go on a hunger strike?”

"Hunger strike?" Luke frowned, his face blank.

Susan froze for a moment before pressing on," Charlotte called me and told me that you’re going on a hunger strike because you cannot accept the fact that I killed your father. She asked me to come here to persuade you."

Luke was confused. He would never go on a hunger strike as he was not that weak of a person.

Seeing the blank look on Luke's face, Susan realized that something was amiss. Suddenly, she felt a bolt of heat shoot up within her body, and her face turned scarlet red.

"What happened, Susie?" Luke asked worriedly. He got down from his bed, and just when he was about to walk towards Susan, she stopped him in his tracks.

"Don't come close to me," she shouted.

Then, she turned around and attempted to open the door, but no matter how much she tried, the door would not budge.

Luke had already arrived behind her. He patted her shoulder and asked, "What's wrong, Susie?"

As if his hand was enchanted with magic, the moment his hand made contact with her skin, the spiraling heat within her doubled.

It was only now that she realized she was roofied. She did not take any medication, and all she took along the way was the glass of water that Charlotte offered t o her. When the realization hit her,

despair began crawling into her thoughts. She had no idea what the Jenkins wanted from her this time. They hated her so much, so why on earth would they drug her and lock her up in the same room with Luke? Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

"Okay, that's it for today. Adjourned.”

As Julian paced out of the meeting room, he opened his phone. The moment his phone started up, a series of missed calls popped up.

He squinted his eyes. All the calls were from his house. Feeling something was not right, he quickly called back.

It was Mama Jean who accepted the call.

"Mister Julian, you told me to watch over Miss Susan and report to you if something happens," Mama Jean said vexedly, "One hour ago, Miss Susan left the house after she received a call.”

"Susie has left the house?” Julian’s pupils constricted," Do you know where she's going?"

"I don’t know. Miss Susan didn’t tell me,” Mama Jean replied.

"Okay. Don’t worry, I’ll handle this.”

After Julian hung up the call, he tried to call Susan. The call was connected, but Susan did not answer it.

Pressing the evergrowing bad feeling back to his stomach pit, Julian knew he had to stay calm right now. He called Seth.

When the call was connected, he hastily asked, "Are you at my house right now?”

"Yes? Anything wrong? Why do you sound so serious?" Seth asked.

"Help me check the last one who called Susie before she left the house," Julian instructed.

"What happened?” Seth asked.

"Just do it first. It’s very urgent!”

"Okay," Seth did not press on as he also realized the gravity of the situation.

Putting up a serious expression, he patted Jacob’s shoulder and asked, "Let me use your laptop for a while. Susan might be in trouble, and I need to check who called her before she went out."

Jacob stopped tapping on his keyboard and looked at Seth. "Susie?"

“Yeah," Seth nodded. “The fastest way to know who called Susan is to hack into the database, so I need to use your laptop right now. Somebody has updated the firmware recently, and it will take me at least half an hour to hack into the database. My skill is considered one of the best, and even though you’re very good at programming, I'm better than you when it comes to hacking. If you ask me, maybe I can try to teach you..."

Just when Seth was talking, he found that Jacob had started tapping away on the keyboard once more.

"Hey, did you hear me? I'm talking to you. Chop-chop gets to the side, and..." Seth was stumped when he saw what Jacob was doing. His mouth remained agape as words rolled off his tongue unknowingly," The f*ck?"

Jacob had already hacked into the database, and his speed and technique were even better than his.

After 10 minutes, Jacob stopped. "I'm in."

Seth was so shocked that he could not close his mouth. Right now, he only wanted to go back to ten minutes ago and slap himself.

'I need at least half an hour to hack into the database.’

'My skill was considered one of the best.'

'If you ask me, maybe I can try to teach you...'

When the words he said earlier flitted across his mind, Seth wanted to find a hole and bury himself up. He claimed himself to be one of the best and he could hack into the database in 30 minutes, but Jacob could get it done in less than 10 minutes.

"Actually, I can get it done in less than 5 minutes," Seth said.

"Oh. Then you're pretty good,” Jacob replied.

Seth felt embarrassed. However, what made him feel even more embarrassed was that he did not know whether Jacob was complimenting or taunting him. There was no expression on his face and his voice gave away nothing.

He did not say anything anymore and hastily skimmed over the record. After he got the thing Julian wanted, he immediately called him.

"You got it already?" Julian sounded surprised.

"Don't mention it. I’m not the one that gets it. Anyway, the last phone call that Susan received came from Charlotte Jenkins," Seth said dejectedly.

'If it's not him, then who did it?’ Just when the thought surfaced in Julian’s mind, the second half of Seth's sentence wafted into his ears and his pupils constricted.

'Charlotte Jenkins? Why on earth did she call Susie? What’s she up to again?'

Julian forced down the surging emotion and made a call to Charlotte.

"Julian?" Charlotte said, her voice containing a touch o f nervous surprise.

Julian paid her no mind and asked coldly, "Where are you now?"

"I'm in my home," Charlotte replied.

"Where is Susie?” Julian cut to the chase.