The Clutches Of Hell Novel

Chapter 26

“Since all of you are so assertive, why not become the CEO instead?” Charlotte blinked her sparkling eyes and glanced at the crowd with a nonchalant smile.

At once, the crowd turned silent and lowered their heads. None of them dared to talk anymore.

Then, Charlotte’s gaze landed on Daisy’s face that was full of blood and clicked her tongue. With her head tilted, she looked at Victoria. “Since you’ve beaten her to this state, I’ll deduct three months of pay as compensation for her medical fees. Do you have any objections to this?”

“No.” Victoria looked down, her palms covered with sweat. She was afraid there would be other punishments apart from her three-month salary deduction.

“You’re only deducting three months of her salary?” Daisy wasn’t crying anymore. Instead, she shouted in a shrill voice, “I disagree, Miss Charlotte! Deducting three months of her salary is too lenient for when she’s beaten me to this state. I want…”

“What do you want, then?” Charlotte cut her off with a half smile.

At this moment, Daisy was feeling as though someone was choking her throat. She couldn’t say anything for some time, and only her face reddened. Meanwhile, blood was trickling down her face from the wound on her head. It was scary, but somehow hilarious.

“I want two of you to send Daisy to the hospital. The rest of you should go back,” Charlotte said with a smile.

The crowd that was watching the fun pushed the job to each other. In the end, two women came forward unwillingly and brought Daisy to the hospital while the rest of them returned to their own rooms.

Then, Charlotte passed by Victoria and entered her room. When she saw the blood stains on the floor, she chuckled. “You’re really ruthless.”

Hearing that, Victoria felt her heart skip a beat. She clenched both sides of her shirt but quickly released them. “Yes.”

“Alright, you can tell me now—why did you beat Daisy up?” Charlotte sat beside the bed and raised her eyebrows. Without waiting for Victoria to answer, she continued, “Never mind. Don’t tell me. I’m not interested in hearing it either.”

She then took out two tubes of ointment from her bag and threw them at Victoria.

After Victoria caught them, she looked at the description on the box and saw that they were treatments for bruises and other wounds. With the ointments in her hand, she asked after hesitating for a moment, “Are they from you?”

“Who else?” Charlotte stretched her body and used one hand to prop her chin. Then, she asked Victoria with a smile, “Who do you want them to be from? Mr. Thatcher?”

“N-No.” Victoria’s face was burning, and she was acting a little awkward. “Thank you, Miss Charlotte. How much are they? I’ll pay you back.”

Since Charlotte was working under Christian, she thought that these ointments were from him.

Something is really wrong with me. He’s the one who wants me to use my life to compensate for Bella’s injuries, so why would he care about my injuries?

“Never mind. They’re cheap.” Charlotte stood up, avoided the blood stain on the floor, and left the room elegantly.

Just then, Victoria dragged her legs. It felt like two shot puts were tied to her ankles as she followed behind Charlotte. She suddenly asked in a soft voice, “Miss Charlotte, can I ask you a question?”

Hearing that, Charlotte stopped walking and turned around to look at her while raising her eyebrows.

“Did Mr. Thatcher mention when I’d be able to leave this place?” Victoria licked her chapped lips. Her eyes, which were always filled with exhaustion and vicissitudes, had little sparks in them for the first time.

“Nope.” Charlotte tucked her hair to the back of her ear. There was an alluring charm in her every action. “I think he might not have thought about this question.”

Has he never once thought about this question? Do I need to stay here for the rest of my life to atone for Bella?

At this thought, the spark in her eyes fizzled out. Although she was standing under a bright light, she couldn’t see the front.

Every part of her life was just blurry. No matter how she walked it, she would end up standing at the end of a cliff, staring right at the abyss.

“Sigh…” She took a deep breath while trembling and wiped off the tears at the corners of her eyes before returning to her room absent-mindedly.

…

One week had passed in just the blink of an eye.

After Daisy was hospitalized, the others didn’t dare gossip about Victoria anymore after seeing how tough she was.

However, Victoria’s workload was still as much. She was in charge of cleaning two floors on her own. Despite having a sore waist and back every day, it was wishful thinking for her to have a day off.

As she was cleaning the hallway, a man scolded her with his face full of disgust, “You there! Can’t you pay attention when mopping the floor? You’ve stained my shoes!”

“Sorry, should I get a new towel and wipe them for you?” Although her mop hadn’t touched his shoes at all, she still apologized to him since explaining would only cause her more trouble. She was already tired every single day, so she didn’t have the energy to deal with this kind of trouble.

“Forget it!” the man said unhappily. “Pay attention next time. You can’t afford to compensate me if you dirty them. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir. Be careful, for the floor is slippery.” With the mop in her hand, she stood aside and waited for the man to walk away. After that, she turned around and looked at Gabrielle, who had just arrived not long ago. “Are you looking for me?”

“Miss Charlotte is looking for you.” With a frown, Gabrielle said while walking, “Everything on that man just now is only worth eight thousand at most. He’s not a rich man, so there’s no need for you to treat him like that.”

Hearing that, she just smiled and didn’t say anything.

Since she didn’t mind it, Gabrielle didn’t continue talking about it either. She brought her to the CEO’s office and left right after.

Then, Victoria knocked on the door and entered the room after getting permission.

When she saw the people inside, her face turned pale. She lowered her head and said, “Mr. Thatcher, Miss Charlotte.”

Christian was sitting on the couch with the sunlight shining from his back, so she couldn’t see his expression clearly. He crossed one leg over the other, and there was a lit cigarette between hinovelxo.com fast updates fingers. It was just like the scene where he used the club to break her leg two years ago.

This version of him had appeared countless times in her nightmare, startling her awake. At this moment, she didn’t even dare look at him.

“You’re quite fast.” Charlotte prepared some tea and put it on the table before asking with a smile, “How’s Daisy? Can she be discharged yet?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t visit her.” There was sweat forming on her nose, and her fingers were trembling uncontrollably. Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

Has Christian come to hold me accountable after a week? Is he going to send me to jail just like two years ago?

At this moment, her eyelashes were quivering while her throat was turning dry. Fear was engulfing her at this very moment. I should’ve held it back. I shouldn’t have beat Daisy up…

“I’m just asking. Why are you so nervous?” Charlotte lifted her charming eyes a little and gave Victoria a cup of tea with a smile. “Have some tea and loosen up a little. I won’t eat you up.”

The faint smell of cigarettes wafted through the office. Throughout the entire time, Christian said nothing and did not move an inch. Yet, every inch of the room was filled with his aura, making Victoria extremely tense.

She took the tea cup in both of her hands. Before she could thank Charlotte, Christian looked at her all of a sudden.

Clang! The tea cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

“I’m sorry…” With an extremely pale face, she squatted down to pick up the broken pieces on the ground. Just then, she accidentally cut her hand with a broken piece and blood started flowing out.

It was as though she couldn’t feel the pain at all as she continued to pick up the broken pieces on the ground.

“You can’t even hold a cup on your own? Do you think that you’re still the young lady of the Coleman Family, huh?” Christian stood up and walked up to her, landing his gaze on her bleeding hand with coldness hidden in his eyes.

Although it was her hand that was injured, she felt that her heart was the one bleeding. She lowered her head and said, “I’m sorry.”

This apologetic look of hers made him feel a little annoyed. As such, Christian frowned and ordered Charlotte, “Treat her wound. I don’t want others to think that I’m abusing my employees.