My eyes darted to the button that would take me back to the ground floor but instead I stepped out and found the apartment door.
It wasn't completely shut.
My heart fluttered with fear. This seemed like a really bad idea, but curiosity was stronger than worry. I pushed the door open and peered in.
The living room was dark and empty, but light was coming from somewhere else. I rested my hand on the gun in my purse, then crept further in, but froze when I heard a woman cry out.
"Yes! Harder!"
Dread settled in me as I followed the voice. I had heard it before. The light was spilling out of an open door.
I stopped in front of it, hesitating. I could still turn around and pretend I'd never received the letter.
Another moan drifted out of the room and I peaked inside. Heat rushed up my face, then seemed to drain out of my body completely.
Fenli was on her knees and forearms on the bed while Fu Shao fucked her from behind.
The slaps of his body hitting her ass filled the silence, only occasionally disrupted by her encouraging cries and moans.
His eyes were closed as his fingers dug into her hips and he rammed into her over and over again.
Fu Shao turned her head to meet my eyes, and smiled triumphantly.
A gut liquid traveled up my throat. So this was what he had been up to the last two nights.
For a crazy moment, I considered taking the gun out and throwing it at her head. I wouldn't shoot her, even if I wanted to. I wasn't him either.
My shoulders slumped and I took a step back. I needed to get away.
His eyes shot open, hand reaching for a gun on the bed beside him but then he found me. He jerked, then froze.
"What's the matter, Fu Shao?" Fenli asked, wiggling her ass against him.
He was still buried inside her.
Fu Shao and I stared at each other and I could feel tears gathering in my eyes.
I whirled around and ran. I needed to get away.
Just ran away.
The moment I stepped out of the elevator on the first floor, I began shaking but I didn't stop.
As I rushed outside almost bumping into Xu who must have followed my phone's GPS. He stumbled back, looked at my face, then at the building and his eyes widened. He knew that I had found it.
Everyone seemed to know, except for stupid me.
I stormed away, running faster than I'd ever run in my life.
When I crossed the street toward the underground station, I caught a glimpse of him in an unbuttoned shirt and pants staggering out of the door.
Xu was already chasing me.
But I was fast.
Many years of working out on the treadmill finally paid off.
So I practically flew down the steps, fumbled for the subway card my sisters and I had purchased before the wedding after we'd forced Martial Zhen to show us the subway.
I managed to squeeze into the already closing doors of a subway. I wasn't even sure where it was going.
But as I saw Fu Shao and Xu heading for the tracks, all that mattered was that it was taking me away.