Chapter 371 Hugging Each Other
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“Will you wear that tonight?” Annie asked out of curiosity.
“I will,” Melanie said with a sigh. “Jeffrey will be going to the dinner, too. If I don’t wear it, it’ll be obvious that I agreed to go just to anger him. He’ll never sign the divorce papers that way.”
Jeffrey was going to the dinner too?
Annie nodded. She felt more assured with Jeffrey accompanying Melanie to the dinner.
Melanie put the box containing the gown and jewelry aside, and got changed into a casual set of shirt and long pants that was comfortable to move in. Very soon, she received a message from the Snow family’s private investigator.
“Gabriel has entered the fragrance blending room.”
“I’m going there too,” Melanie said to Annie.
“Have you thought this through?” Annie asked, still concerned.
“It’s fine. I have to actively enter the lion’s den instead of being a sitting duck,” Melanie said as she patted Annie’s shoulders. “Jeffrey’s men are also stationed nearby the fragrance blending room. Don’t worry.”
Annie nodded. Since when did Jeffrey become such a great comfort to her when it came to Melanie?
Melanie walked leisurely out of the hotel, crossed the road, and entered the fragrance blending room after
swiping her fingerprint on the lock.
She knew that many pairs of eyes were glued on her as she made her way there. Yet, she remained calm
despite the panic growing inside her.
William soon received a phone call and reported the situation to Jeffrey, who was monitoring the live feed of
the surveillance cameras.
“President, our men said that aside from Harlow York’s men, a bunch of people have their eyes on Mrs.
Morgan too. They’re the Snow family’s private investigators…”
“Get your men to step back to the periphery. Let the Snows‘ private investigators lead this,” Jeffrey instructed, feeling helpless about the situation.
Since Melanie made plans, his job then was to cover any loopholes without disrupting them.
Melanie walked into the fragrance blending room, which was segregated into many small rooms. One of the rooms was her personal fragrance blending room, and she had to walk past Gabriel’s fragrance blending room on the way to her own.
As expected, she saw Gabriel’s room lit up. She rang on his doorbell.
Gabriel looked back; upon seeing that Melanie was at the door, he put down the test tube in his hand, removed
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“What brings you here?” Gabriel asked. “Were you struck by new inspiration too?”
“Yeah,” Melanie said as she walked in.
After the door shut behind them, she suddenly leaned into Gabriel’s ear and said, “Come with me.”
“To where?”
Gabriel looked confused, but before he could ask further, the lights along the corridor outside went out.
“How did that happen?” Gabriel exclaimed, his face tense.
This fragrance blending room was specially designed by the competition committee for the participants of the
competition. It was completely sealed and allowed no sunlight in, which was why the lights along the corridor
were always lit.
The door sensors of the fragrance blending room were also powered by electricity. If there was a power
outage, no one could enter or leave the fragrance blending room!
“Who’s trying to lock us up here?” Gabriel asked as he began to figure out what was going on.
“Don’t bother asking who it is first. Whatever it is, I have a way to bring you out.”
With that, Melanie grabbed Gabriel’s hand and moved quickly, shining their way ahead with a torchlight she
prepared beforehand. She swiftly arrived at the meeting place she agreed with the Snows‘ private investigator.
“Mr. Lindsey, follow them and they will send you back to the hotel,” Melanie said.
Gabriel was worried about her. “What about you?”
“Don’t worry. I still have something else to settle,” Melanie said with a smile as she hopped into the car of
another private investigator and left.
In the evening, a driver from the Yorks arrived at Melanie’s hotel to pick her up. However, he couldn’t find her.
He ended up returning and reporting to Joseph and the butler, “Ms. Jones’s companion and the hotel staff
members all have no idea where she went.”
Someone from behind Joseph harbored a guess. “Did she go shopping?”
Joseph had specially invited members of his extended family as well as prestigious families in Medonia. He even declared he had organized this dinner to specially thank Melanie, who had performed outstandingly well
as a representative of the country. He didn’t hide his appreciation of her and her talent.
Everyone was expecting her arrival, yet she had disappeared into thin air.
“Since she agreed to turn up, she wouldn’t go back on her word so recklessly,” the old butler said.
Just then, Harlow stepped forward and said to Joseph, “That’s right, she’s here to participate in the competition. Her mind is occupied with fragrance blending. Why would she bother going shopping? For all you know, she’s in the fragrance blending room.”
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“Check the surveillance cameras and see if she’s there.”
Joseph was the chairman of the competition committee, and had exclusive rights and privileges. With his command, his subordinates connected the big screen in the room to the surveillance cameras in the fragrance
blending room.
The surveillance camera at the entrance of the fragrance blending room showed that Melanie had indeed entered the room right after Gabriel did.
Everyone looked at the footage of each individual fragrance blending room, and saw that Melanie’s room was empty. Meanwhile, someone was in Gabriel’s room. To be exact, there were two people inside who looked like they were hugging each other…
Shock was etched on everyone’s faces.
