Chapter 36: Surprise attack

Darryl and Charles sit in a room at a busy casino in the city. They observed the inner rooms through a series of screens transmitted by hidden cameras in those rooms. This is also a soundproof room used for them to discuss top secret work.

At this moment, one of Darryl's subordinates knocked on the door. He entered the room with a serious face.

"Sir, half an hour ago your wife was attacked."

The subordinate narrated the whole story. He was one of the underlings sent to secretly protect Regina Lynne. Tonight, as usual, they were sitting in the car and watching Regina when suddenly a black car crashed into the front of Regina's car. Then, two tall men quickly approached, intending to do something to Regina. Luckily they got there in time and stopped those two guys from doing bad things to Regina.

Because Regina was there, Darryl's subordinates did not dare to blatantly arrest those two masked people, but only sent a few subordinates to try to track them down to find them. Anyway, Regina didn't know that Darryl sent people to watch and protect her secretly, so they couldn't reveal their identities, could only pretend to be passers-by who happened to witness this and save Regina .

"Sir, although we couldn't find those two masked guys, we did find this. Maybe during the fight with us, they dropped it."

The underling took out a plastic bag, which contained a syringe.

Darryl took it, his expression cold, unpredictable.

"The syringe?" Charles frowned, placing his cigar in the ashtray. "Someone brought a syringe to your wife, what does he want? Don't tell me he intends to..."

Charles thought of a possibility, that Darryl's enemies didn't want to attack Regina with beatings, but wanted to do something more terrifying. In this syringe must be some kind of stimulant or poison that, when injected into the body, will cause terrible harm, even death. Recently, some mafia gangs have experimented with this way of revenge against each other. They sent a few underlings recklessly carrying syringes and injecting them into the enemy's body. Many mafia bosses died because of that, but no one later found the mastermind.

Darryl clearly has the same mindset as Charles. This case is not simple at all, Darryl's enemies are targeting his wife. Without thinking much, Darryl immediately got up, grabbed his leather jacket and left his casino. Charles and several subordinates also followed him.

"Did you guess who the mastermind is?" Charles turned to look at Darryl's pensive face and asked.

"Not yet. But if I look, I'll find it."

With determination and brutality shining in Darryl's eyes, Charles suddenly remembered the time when Charles met Darryl at the orphanage. At that time, Darryl was bullied by a group of friends, and so was Darryl's eyes when he harbored the intention of revenge. As a result, that group of bullies was beaten up by Darryl, bruised and crying for weeks, since then they never dared to bully Darryl again.

The eyes then and now are so similar, even Darryl's eyes now are more intimidating.

A week later, Regina had forgotten that she had been attacked by two strangers. The police are completely powerless to track down who attacked Regina, while Regina continues to be busy with her packed schedule. It's just that Regina finds it difficult to meet Darryl Rider these days. Compared to her, he seemed to be much busier. It was almost dawn when Regina dimly realized that Darryl had come home, now fast asleep, but she could still smell the faint scent of blood.

Today, Regina was invited to a celebrity party. In this party, Roxana and Julia were also invited. Roxana is accompanied by Hubert Roger, they look really good together and make many people jealous. Roxana looked so smug, she wanted to show everyone that Hubert Roger was her man.

From a distance, Hubert Rober saw Regina sipping wine in a corner. He took advantage when Roxana was busy talking to the supermodels when he immediately approached Regina. Since his appointment with Regina for dinner at a restaurant, Hubert had not been able to see her again. He realized that perhaps Regina was avoiding him on purpose, Darryl must have caused some trouble that made her panic and distance herself from him. That's what Hubert thought.

"Drinking alone like that seems to be because you're not in a good mood, right?"

Seeing Hubert approach and ask questions, Regina smiled softly and replied. They talked to each other as closely as they did when they were children, but it wasn't hard to see that Hubert couldn't go as deep into Regina's world as before. She no longer whined or cried to him when she felt sorry for herself and was bullied by Roxana. Currently, she avoids questions related to her married life and tells only a few stories related to singing, although Hubert repeatedly questioned her in different ways.

This made Hubert unhappy, but he didn't show it.

"Hubert Roger? Oh, what a surprise. I remember you were the partner that went with Roxana to the party, why are you in this corner talking to Regina?"

Julia appeared out of nowhere and went to their place to talk. Originally, Julia did not like Regina, she was even more jealous of Regina's unexpected success. Every day she opened her eyes to read the newspaper, she always saw Regina's commercials and CFs, saw articles praising Regina's natural voice, Regina's songs were still on the charts. Meanwhile, Julia received relatively few advertising contracts, she was never appreciated for her talent, and her songs were only temporary and forgotten.

In addition, Julia also hates that Regina freely publicizes her married life with her husband who is a notorious and rich mafia boss. Then Regina became a model of a perfect woman in the eyes of many other women. Meanwhile, in order to survive in the fierce entertainment world, Julia has to sell herself to old millionaires, hoping they can invest in her music career.

Just a few weeks ago, Julia also saw Regina being taken by Darryl to a race car reserved for mafia gangs, which was like Darryl's assertion to Regina that she was his wife.

Why does Regina Lynne have all the luck? Why do men always cling to Regina?

Julia couldn't contain her jealousy so she aggressively approached Regina and Hubert to mock them.

"We've known each other since we were kids. Don't come here to talk nonsense." Hubert wanted to warn Julia for her inappropriate behavior, but his voice was a bit loud and unintentionally attracted the attention of many people nearby.

"Nonsense? Hubert, obviously you are a successful and wealthy businessman, you should be the one to moderate your actions. Everyone here knows you and Roxana are a couple, there's no reason for you to separate from her and sit here talking intimately with Regina, a married woman."

Julia spoke so logically that Hubert stiffened, unable to respond. Seeing Hubert's slightly hardened expression, Julia knew she was right. Hubert clearly has feelings for Regina, she's not sure exactly what their relationship is, but she will definitely cling to this weakness to get revenge on Regina.

"Are you deaf or are you deliberately pretending not to hear?" Regina coldly put her wine glass on the table and looked at Julia. "Hubert has made it clear that he and I have been friends since childhood. What's wrong with us meeting here and talking? Besides, we don't secretly meet each other."

Seeing Regina's nonchalant attitude, the suspicions of everyone who were waiting for the conversation were also greatly reduced. At first, the people in the party were led by Julia to think in a bad way about Regina. But when they heard Regina's reply, they realized that this was nothing to worry about, and Julia was just a woman who liked to prying into other people's affairs.

Julia was a little disappointed, but she couldn't bear to be humiliated in front of so many people. Therefore, she stubbornly argued back.

"So why when I questioned Hubert, he didn't claim he didn't say he and she were 'friends'. Obviously he only said that the two of you used to know each other, which makes it easy for others to misunderstand your relationship. Or what if Hubert really had feelings for you a long time ago?"

Indeed, Hubert's ambiguity is deliberate. He wanted people to see that he and Regina were more than just friendship. But he couldn't do it on his own, he had to take advantage of Julia. However, Julia wasn't very smart either, so she easily became a puppet for Hubert to use. In the end, it was Regina who was in trouble, because she couldn't really justify their relationship or prove Hubert didn't have feelings for her.

In fact, Regina herself knows that Hubert loves her, but now that she is married, she cannot accept his feelings.

Being caught in a dilemma that made Regina feel a little annoyed, at this moment Roxana appeared.

"Hubert, some of my friends want to see you. Enough rest, let's go this way." Roxana pulled Hubert's hand and left.

Everything calmed down. Julia knew the right thing to stay and argue with Regina, finding trouble for herself. And Regina also silently sighed in relief.

Roxana is a much wiser woman than Julia.

She never openly bullied Regina but only did it in secret. Of course, she must always keep her image of a pure and friendly lady. So, instead of making a big fuss about it, she agreed to ignore Regina to pull Hubert towards her.

Just now, she noticed that Hubert was near Regina, but she didn't believe that Hubert had feelings for Regina. He defended Regina because he wanted to protect Regina from being provoked by Julia. If there is affection between Hubert and Regina, then it is just friendship, Roxana has strong belief that.

But sometimes, catching Hubert's absent-minded glance in Regina's direction, Roxana couldn't help but worry. Regina is definitely a whore who knows how to seduce men, even her woman that Regina wants to rob even though she is married. That thought made Roxana's hatred for Regina even more.

And Roxana had a brilliant plan to make Regina regret daring to seduce her Hubert.

She looked towards Julia and smiled, the enemy of her enemy is her friend, she can use Julia to get revenge on Regina.

At the same time, there was someone who had the same thoughts as Roxana.

Hubert stood beside her and observed every expression on Roxana's face, despite her best efforts to conceal it. Hubert guessed that Roxana would try to embarrass Regina again, but he wouldn't stop Roxana. Because he knew that it was only when Regina was bullied to the point of being unbearable by Roxana that Regina came to him. Thinking of the prospect of Regina squishing his heart and crying, he felt his heart tingle again. At any rate, he must recapture Regina.