Eve held her head tightly. It was spinning so badly as if she had drunk a whole bucket of liquor. The stairs and the vases around it were splitting into two and four.
She blinked a few times and closed her eyes. She did not need to see a path to walk on it. She had spent years in this house. She could walk with her instincts.
She walked with her eyes closed and reached for their room.
"Cedric, are you here?" her voice trembled as if she was grieving. "Cedric," she called him again when she felt arms wrapping around her waist.
She leaned on him. He had always been too demanding when it comes to physical needs. But when she inhaled his smell, it felt different. It was the same cologne Cedric always used, yet there was something so different about his touch and the feelings.
She instinctively started to struggle.
"Cedric, you are not Cedric. Let me go. Security." she shouted hard when the man covered her mouth with his hands. She struggled further but her body was losing the battle. Her body was sag and heavy and she could not handle its burden.
"You wench, all you need to do is lie down on the bed. I am doing all the hard work. Yet you are struggling like this. What is the meaning of this?" he gritted his teeth. It made her sure that she was with the wrong person. But she could not struggle enough. Someone had mixed something in her food. The clam soup! She gritted her teeth. Emily was the only servant she had trusted so far and now.
"Let me go or I will kill you. You do not know who I am. I am the wife of.." she received a slap before she could speak further.
"You are just a wench who knows how to tease others but does not take responsibility. Now I will teach you a lesson." he spat with force and she struggled again. But he covered her lips with his despite the struggle she was making.
Just then she heard a loud sound. That made her head heavier. She held it with both hands and frowned. The man let her go and took a step back.
"Who are you to enter in the room like that? Do you know who she is?" the man with her shouted. She wanted to shout back at him. Pleaded to her helper but the words did not come out. She was dizzy and exhausted and thirsty. She wanted water. What kind of heat is this?
"Do I know her?" Despite the pain she was facing, she stared at the voice. As if her unconscious mind was scared of him, "who will know my wife better than me."
She shook her head and forced her eyes to open. She saw a handsome stranger standing beside her. His shirt was already on the ground. And his chest was full of marks of lipstick. It stunned her since she was sure she did not kiss his chest.
He had forced a kiss on her lips. That was all. She shook her head again. This nasty headache.
"Cedric." she called for him when he tilted his head and looked at her disheveled clothes. Her eyes were full of tears and she looked in pain. His eyes softened but the man standing beside Eve fell on his knees.
"Oh, sir. It is her. She had brought me here. She told me that her husband was having an affair and he didn't care about her. So, she wanted someone to have an affair too. I am a new model and it was hard for me to get an invitation.
I didn't want to offend the hostess of the party so I had to come. Please, I did nothing wrong." he cried hard, shocking her. "Do not throw me out, sir. I am innocent."
The softness vanished in an instant. His eyes went cold and dark. The temperature dropped in the room. Eve could feel that he was raging. She heard the lies of that man too. But only tears come out of her eyes. She could not speak at all.
"Cedric." she whimpered as she walked to him. But he did not let her hug him.
"Throw this man out." he spoke in a dark voice that told her there were more men around her. She stilled. She could feel the cold air on her skin. It meant her dress was.. She gulped and did not dare to complain about his tight grip that was cutting her wrist.
"No! Wait. I am innocent. She is the one who seduced me. She is the culprit. I only wanted a role." he shouted hard creating a scene.
Even in this condition, Eve was worried that the guests would hear him and misunderstand her. She tried to follow him to tell the truth to everyone but his grip tightened further.
"Are you going to follow your new lover to hell?" The voice was full of venom and hatred that shook her core.
"My new lover? He is not my lover." she shook her head for the emphasis when he snickered.
"A new toy then. Does it matter how you look at him?" he repeated in an icy voice that started to freeze her limbs.
"Cedric. That is not true. My head is dizzy. I could not stop him." she whispered in a low sniffling voice when his eyes narrowed. She did look strange.
"Then you should not drink that much. Just how many glasses had you taken?" he was gone to attend a video conference since it was urgent. Their branch caught fire and burnt all the consignment they needed to send tomorrow. He had to contact all the branches and see if they could still supply it or not.
Luckily, they have enough stock in other branches but it would increase the transportation cost ten times. Just when he had returned, he was informed by maids that his wife had taken a man to her room in front of the crowd.