Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

Amber led Tina to the innermost nanny’s room on the first floor. It was uncertain whether it had been deliberately tidied up, but the nanny’s room was very simple. So simple that there was only one bed inside. There was also a set of clothes on the bed.

Tina turned around, her brows and eyes lowered, her voice devoid of emotion, “Can you tell fortunes?”

“What?” Amber was confused by the question.

“Oh, you can’t.” Tina’s attitude remained indifferent. “You can’t tell fortunes, yet you somehow knew in advance that the nanny would douse me with water? You’re quite something.”

Amber’s expression stiffened. What did she mean by that? Had she really found out? That shouldn’t be possible.

Amber lifted her gaze to meet Tina’s, and with a light laugh, she said, “I saw your clothes were wet earlier and thought you’d need to change, so I had someone bring these clothes down for you. Please don’t mind.”

“I’ll go out first, take your time changing.”

Tina raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

As the door closed, Amber’s face instantly turned cold. Today, she intended to disgrace Tina and Jared.

Inside the room, Tina watched the door close, the smile fading from her lips. She pulled a ceramic bottle from her pocket and swallowed a pill from it. The drink given to her by the nanny had been drugged. It was a highly concentrated aphrodisiac that could only be countered by intimate relations between a man and a woman once it took effect. Tina was not familiar with the extent of Amber’s medical skills, but such a drug was not available on the market.

It was somewhat amusing to her; Amber knew she had studied medicine, yet she still drugged her. Too bad for Amber, Tina could neutralize the drug she had been given.

As for why she ingested the drug and followed Amber to this room, she wanted to see what Amber was up to.

Elsewhere, after a few minutes had passed since Amber left, she approached Jared. “Mr. Farrell, Tina is asking for you. She says she needs to discuss something with you.”

Jared glanced at her, his cool lips curling slightly, “Nathan, push me over there.”

“Tina said she wants you to come alone.” Amber quickly interjected, “Mr. Farrell, Tina mentioned she wants to have a private conversation with you. It’s not quite appropriate with others around.”

Jared’s eyes lifted slightly, and he whispered to Nathan, “You stay here.”

With that, he pushed his wheelchair and followed Amber to the nanny’s room.

Amber brought him to the door and paused, “I won’t go in. I still have guests to attend to.”

She then turned crisply and left.

Jared’s narrow eyes followed her retreating figure, a layer of frost covering his austere face.

He had met Tina only a few times but understood that she would never seek him out for no reason, nor would she speak privately with him.

He turned and pushed open the room door. As soon as it closed behind him, he was abruptly pulled up, only to see Tina with a flushed face and a dazed look in her eyes.

Tina pressed him against the wall, her hands roaming over his body incessantly.

Jared’s expression became focused, and he grabbed her hands, “Have you been drugged?”

Her touch seemed magical, sending sparks of fire where she touched him.

Tina tilted her chin up, her pale fingers lifting his jaw closer to her, her expression bewitching with a hint of seduction, “Do you want me?”

She pressed against him, and his throat became dry.

He was a normal man!

At this moment, this young girl was wriggling against him like an eel, and his brain was about to explode.

Yet, what he didn’t see was the thin silver needle hidden between the fingers she had placed behind his neck.

Should he dare to make a move, the needle would not hesitate to pierce his body, leaving him paralyzed in bed.

Tina did not expect Jared to push her away!

“Miss Reed, calm down,” Jared’s voice was hoarse.

His handsome cheeks were still flushed, his body’s reaction not yet subsided as he struggled to contain himself.

Tina was taken aback, and somewhat unwilling to let go, she leaned closer to his ear, breathing out warmly, “You-don’t want me?”

She didn’t believe a man could resist such temptation.

The warm breath on Jared’s face caused the heat he had just suppressed to rise again.

Jared’s breathing grew heavy, and when he looked down at Tina, the cunning in her eyes did not escape him.

He pulled her into his embrace, his voice deep and husky, “Is this amusing to you?”

She had disguised it so well!

If he were notadept at reading people, he might have been fooled by her.

Even if he had not seen through her disguise, he would not have done anything to her.

Jared Farrell was never one to take advantage of someone in a vulnerable state.

Tina’s expression stiffened slightly, as if she hadn’t expected Jared to realize she was pretending. She was very confident in her acting skills; even though she had never been intimate with anyone, she had seen the effects of the drug on others.

Therefore, she could easily feign the dazed look of someone drugged.

But it was a surprise that Jared had discovered the truth so quickly.

Unexpected, indeed.

But then again, how could a person who had no physical impairments, not even the slightest ailment, and yet pretended to be disabled, be considered worthless by others?

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“You’re very good at pretending!” Jared met her gaze, “But I believe, the person who could neutralize the Crimson Silk toxin in my sister’s body could certainly handle an aphrodisiac.”

Her eyes were beautiful.

Just like that day at Serenity Ridge, when he first saw her, they were as bright as the moon and as clear as spring water.

Tina was momentarily stunned, then she smiled, “You actually know about Crimson Silk.”

Crimson Silk was the name of the toxin in Sophia’s body.

Very few people knew of this toxin.

Even fewer knew its name.

“I also know…” Jared suddenly leaned close to her ear, “that you are well-versed in medicine and even more skilled in poisoning.”

Tina was taken aback, then she seemed to realize something, and with a smile, she teased, “So, are you threatening me?”

It must have been that day at Serenity Ridge, after she had taken down several assassins, that Jared began to suspect her.

Yes.

She was skilled in using poisons.

During the days when she and her mother were being hunted, she understood one thing: the best way to protect herself was to make her enemies stand before her, wanting to kill her but powerless to do so.

“Not at all,” Jared stated from his wheelchair, stating a fact, “We are engaged to be married.”

The implication was clear.

They were family.

Where was there room for threats?

Tina’s eyes were playful, a smile at the corner of her eyes, “So, my fiance, when someone schemes against me, what will you do?”

“Since they dare to scheme against my fiancee, they should be taught a lesson!”

“How will you teach them?”

“By slapping their faces.”