The Clutches Of Hell Novel

Chapter 38

His gaze was giving Victoria too much pressure. She tightened her back muscles and stood up. “I’m sorry.”

Her actions were so big that it made the slit on her bodycon dress sway front and back. All content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

Although there was an obvious scar on her legs, it didn’t make people feel that it was hideous. In fact, it was resonating with the floral prints on her dress, making her even more alluring.

A few of them fixed their gazes on her and couldn’t get their eyes off Victoria.

Seeing that, Christian put down his wine glass as his eyes turned dark. He leaned back onto the couch and crossed his legs before saying coldly, “Get out.”

“This new girl is too naive, squeezing into such a small space. It’s spacious beside me. Come and sit here,” one of them said with a smile while patting on the couch.

At this moment, Christian stared at Victoria, and his lips were so tense that they became a line. The darkness in his eyes was obscure as well.

“Thank you, Mr. Lambert, but it’s okay.” Victoria suppressed the humiliation that she was feeling and forced a smile. “Mr. Thatcher doesn’t like me to sit beside him. I’ll just stand here.”

“Is Mr. Lambert being rejected?” Someone laughed.

Mr. Lambert smiled and said resignedly, “Sigh, it’s normal. Mr. Thatcher is so handsome and charming. I’m nothing compared to him! However, it’s better this way since I don’t need to be punished by my wife when I get back home.”

Hearing that, everyone in the room laughed together, but their topic returned to business almost immediately.

Christian didn’t ask Victoria to leave, but he didn’t look at her at all, making it seem as though he was treating her as an invisible person.

As the others chatted and talked about business, he just said one or two sentences occasionally. The rest of the time, he was just sitting there quietly.

Even so, no one dared to neglect him. Although it looked like they were talking happily, they would look at him from time to time and change the topic when they felt that something was wrong.

“It is really our pleasure to be able to invite Mr. Thatcher today. Let me give Mr. Thatcher and everyone here a toast!” Someone stood up and raised his wine glass at Christian and the others with a smile.

The others followed him as they stood up and raised their glasses as well, clinking with each other.

Christian was the last one to stand up. He raised his glass and clinked glasses with them too.

“Let me drink it for you, Mr. Thatcher. You’re not good at drinking,” Victoria put on a smile and said softly.

At this moment, everyone in the room was stunned and looked at her with confusion. Is this hostess trying to drink for Mr. Thatcher?

Meanwhile, Christian looked at her for a moment before he picked up the wine bottle and added more wine to his glass before giving it to her.

While pressing her lips together, Victoria took the glass and drank it in one shot without any hesitation.

“You really can hold your liquor, lady!” Someone clapped and persuaded her with a smile. “Come on. Have another glass.”

The expensive red wine flowed into the glass from its wall, and the aroma of the wine spread throughout the room. The wine glass, which was empty not long ago, was filled up almost immediately.

Victoria held the wine in her hand and tilted her head to look at Christian.

He was sitting on the couch, but his handsome face was covered by the shadows, so she couldn’t see his expression clearly. However, she could tell that he never once looked at her.

She laughed at herself and nodded with the few men while holding the red wine. Then, she raised her head and drank the wine and the bitterness she was feeling.

Just then, Christian changed the position of his crossed legs and put his left hand on his knee while his gaze landed on Victoria’s empty wine glass. He frowned a little but looked away quickly.

“This is what I like! You’re such a cool lady!”

“It’s cool, but drinking such good red wine so quickly is such a waste.”

“Don’t be a buzzkill. Take your glass up and drink another one.”

Victoria stood in the middle of these men, whose age was closer to her father’s, and forced out a smile before lifting her glass.

At this moment, her stomach was already feeling sick, but she drank the wine without a second of hesitation.

If she could please Christian and let him spare her, this pain would be nothing.

When Christian saw her smiling and drinking the wine from the men one after another, he lifted his hand and loosened his necktie. However, this suffocating feeling was still not getting any better.

He lowered his head and took out a cigarette, clamping it between his long index finger and middle finger.

“Let me light it up for you.” Victoria endured the burning in her stomach and walked up to Christian. After kneeling down, she took a lighter made out of gold foil from the table and lit it up before placing it under his cigarette gently.

With the jittering golden flame reflecting in her eyes, she raised her head to look at him. Although she looked very vivid, there was no trace of that rebellious Miss Coleman anymore.

At this moment, Christian looked at her and paused for a moment before sending the cigarette into his mouth. He took a puff and blew out a dense wreath.

After Victoria closed the lighter, she put it back onto the table and stood behind him quietly.

When he was done smoking and took up his glass, wanting to drink, she immediately bent down to take the wine bottle and poured it for him carefully.

As for the others, it was none of her business whether they wanted to smoke or drink. She wouldn’t go up to them either.

With that, the others laughed and said that she only liked Christian.

When it was about time, they all left one after another. Soon, Victoria and Christian were the only ones left in the room.

“You’re making time to seduce people instead of quietly being a janitor. You’re really sick in the head, Victoria.” He glanced at her, and his voice was bloodcurdling.novelxo.com fast update

“You’ve misunderstood my intentions.” Her stomach was in so much pain that it felt like it had been sliced by a knife and burned by fire. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and lowered her gaze before saying, “Miss Charlotte asked me to return to my original position.”

Hearing that, he knitted his brows together without saying a word. He just walked past her, ready to leave.

When he arrived at the door, he suddenly stopped. “Don’t drink when you have a stomach problem.”

At this moment, the action of massaging her stomach came to a halt as the tips of her fingers started to tremble slightly. Is he… caring about me?

She turned to look at his figure from the back. Yet, before she could thank him, she heard him saying coldly, “I don’t want to hear anything about Delta Club abusing its employees to death.” He strode out of the room after saying that.

As Victoria looked at the empty door, she felt her warm heart turn into ice immediately. Her limbs were feeling the cold as well.

She massaged her dizzy head and laughed at herself. Did I drink too much? I actually thought that he was caring about me.

In the hallway, that light purple floral-printed bodycon dress with a high slit kept replaying in Christian’s mind, making him feel annoyed all of a sudden.

He couldn’t tell whether he was angry or if he was feeling other emotions, but he just thought that the dress looked extra dazzling today. Also, this was not the first time he had feelings for Victoria.

At this thought, he loosened his necktie and walked faster than usual. When he passed by the chief’s office, he accidentally heard a man’s voice from inside.

“I’ve just got a new item, and I would like to know if Mr. Diaz is interested. Yes, it’s a jade necklace from the Renaissance period. I would like to let you have a look.”

Just then, Victoria’s empty neck today flashed across Christian’s mind. He then slowed his footsteps.

He tilted his head to look at the door which was ajar and stopped walking. After a moment, he pushed the door open and entered the room.