Penelope rolled her eyes and was about to cover her ears when the woman spoke.
“Did you ever do this for Penelope?”
Penelope frowned. Why was she being brought into this? Did this woman know her?
“No… she… she didn’t deserve this from me,” Zebulon stammered.
His words pleased the woman, and she laughed triumphantly. “The moment she started at our school, she stole my title as the campus queen. A lot of the boys who liked me suddenly started fawning over her. Later, after graduation, I came to your company for business and fell for you at first sight. But it turned out you were her boyfriend. I chased you for a month, but you never gave in. It broke my heart.”
“I didn’t appreciate you back then.”
“But in the end, you still ended up in my hands.”
“I… retch…”
“Sorry. I get a little carried away when I’m excited.”
Hearing this, and thinking back, Penelope finally placed the woman. No wonder she looked familiar.
The interruption caused a brief pause, but soon they were back at it with renewed vigor. Anna enjoyed dominating men, using humiliation to make them submit.
“Do you still love her?”
“Penelope?”
“Yes.”
“I love you.”
“Cut the crap. We’re just having fun. This isn’t about love.”
“It doesn’t matter if I love her or not. What matters is that one day, I will…”
“You’ll what?”
“I’ll make her regret leaving me. She’ll come crawling back, begging me for forgiveness. And then I’ll drag her into bed and take her, hard. I’ll use the roughest positions, the most force, until she’s crying and screaming my name!”
“You’re getting off on this, you sick bastard!”
She had heard that Mrs. Stapleton was here tonight but was feeling unwell with a cold. Mr. Stapleton was so protective of his wife that he wouldn’t let her come downstairs for fear of the draft. Could it be her? There was no one else it could be.
“Oh, so you’re Mrs. Stapleton. We…”
“Get out!”
“I’m Simon’s sister, Anna.”
“I said, get out!”
Anna’s face flushed with embarrassment, but she didn’t dare to offend Mrs. Stapleton.
“We’re sorry to have disturbed you. We’ll leave right now!”
With that, Anna tried to pull Zebulon away, but he was frozen in place, staring at Mrs. Stapleton’s back. She tugged at him again, warning him to be careful. But he ignored her and started walking toward the figure.
“Zebulon, are you insane?” Anna couldn’t hold him back and kicked him in frustration. Offending Mrs. Stapleton could be even worse than offending Theodore himself.
“She’s not Mrs. Stapleton. She’s…”

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