Chapter 509

At that moment, Valerie felt like a complete stranger to Lucius. Just this morning, they'd woken up in the same bed. Only a few hours had passed, yet the way Valerie looked at him now was as though she were looking at a stranger. Lucius walked toward her, step by step. "I heard you ran into a little trouble. I was worried you might be taken advantage of, so I rushed over to take a look." Only Keane and Silas knew how much Lucius was understating it. For Valerie, he had dismissed the company's quarterly meeting without any hesitation. That alone showed that Valerie's place in his heart had already surpassed everything else. Seizing the moment, Lucinda snatched the pill from Valerie's hand. Then she said to Lucius, "Val's hypnotized that bastard four times in a row. That's way beyond what her body can handle." When he heard that Valerie had used hypnosis four consecutive times, Lucius's heart clenched. "Backlash?" In front of Lucius, Lucinda couldn't be bothered to hide anythin