A Vengeful Ex-Wife
Chapter 107 She Escaped

Quickly, Maria hid under the quilt, leaving only her eyes exposed. Then she told him, "Mr. Xi, I'll never forget how kind you are. Please don't hand me over!"

As he heard that, James turned around and cast a cold glance at her.

Maria had no choice but to put on a bright smile in return. After all, she needed his help.

When James opened the door, he looked at the man outside indifferently without saying a word.

Sure enough, that was Colby's assistant. The man couldn't help feeling intimidated by James' imposing manner as he plucked up the courage to say, "Good evening, Mr. Xi. I'm sorry to disturb you this late." "What's the matter?" James asked impatiently.

"Here is the thing..." The assistant peeped into the room but didn't replace anything out of the ordinary. "Someone broke into Mr. Zheng's room earlier."

"What does this have to do with me?" James was getting more and more impatient.

The assistant broke out in a cold sweat, completely nervous in James' presence. "Well, I just want to give you a friendly warning, Mr. Xi. Please watch out."

"If you suspect anyone, you should contact the hotel or call the police. I don't think I need to teach you how to do this, right?" James' face darkened. He was already in a bad mood because of Maria.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Xi!" Still, the assistant made no mention to leave. Instead, he asked nervously again, "Mr. Xi..."

"James, hurry up!" A flirtatious voice rang out from inside the bedroom, interrupting the assistant's words.

The woman's voice didn't sound familiar to the stunned assistant. No wonder James seemed so dissatisfied with him. It turned out that he had interrupted his romantic evening. As he realized that, the assistant bowed to James immediately. "I'm sorry, Mr. Xi. I do apologize. Good night, sir!

His last words had barely fallen from his lips when he heard a loud "bang." James had ruthlessly slammed the door in his face.

The assistant touched the tip of his nose, which seemed intact. But for a moment there, he thought he would die under James' gaze.

In the bedroom, Maria had to cover her mouth so she wouldn't vomit.

That sweet voice she just made really sickened her.

James went back to the bedroom and looked coldly at the woman lying in the bed. "Will you leave now, or do I have to ask someone to throw you out?"

"Why are you so mean? I've warmed up the bed for you already. Don't you want to lie down next to me?" Supporting her head with one hand, she crooked a finger at him.

Maria had a plan in mind. If she could persuade James to spend the night with her, she wouldn't have to be afraid of Colby's assistant coming back for her later.

James' eyes darkened with desire as she flirted with him. In no time, he was on top of her, pressing his body against hers and holding her waist tightly. Then he grunted, "I'll teach you a lesson tonight!" In that way, he would guarantee that she would behave herself for a few days.

Maria had a hunch that what she had hoped for was really going to happen. But as she recalled their last time together in the villa, she couldn't help telling him, "Please, be gentle..."

"So are you afraid now? Well, it's too late for that!" He would give her a hard time and punish her until she begged for mercy like she did the last time.

Maria opened her mouth to speak, but her words were choked by James' lips.

In the end, Maria was right. Colby's assistant really came back ten minutes later. He stood quietly at the door of James' suite, trying to overhear what was going on inside.

At that moment, James was still in a fit of anger, so he was a little violent with Maria. Her cries were loud enough for the man outside to hear them.

With no other choice, the assistant went back to another suite on the same floor, which was not far from James'.

Lowering his head, he reported honestly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zheng. She escaped."

"Escaped?" Colby's face went dark as he heard the assistant's words. The next moment, he thumped the document in his hand on the table and ordered, "Check the surveillance video. Tell the hotel manager that something important that belongs to me is missing."

However, the assistant had already asked someone to check the surveillance cameras after they found the intruder. "Whoever we're dealing with is very cautious. I requested the hotel manager earlier to check the surveillance video of the presidential suite floor. But the system of the whole floor was damaged."

Colby remained silent after hearing his response. He needed to think. The assistant wiped the sweat off his forehead and added, "I've checked the surveillance video of the first floor too, but no one suspicious left during this period."

Colby looked him in the eye. "So the intruder is still in the building?"

"That was my first hunch, but I've checked all the suites on this floor, including Mr. Xi's," the assistant responded, shivering at the thought of James' piercing eyes boring into him.

"What is James Xi doing?" Colby asked on high alert.

"There's indeed a woman in his room, but I don't think she's the intruder. When I got to his door, they were... umm...having sex. I believe we lost trace of the intruder for about two minutes." "Are you sure they were having sex?" Colby asked again.

"Yes, I'm sure. A few minutes later, I went back to Mr. Xi's door, and they were being quite loud in there." The assistant thought there must have been some sort of foreplay before they got to that point he heard Otherwise, how could the man get aroused so quickly? Hence, he believed he could only have interrupted James when he first knocked on the door.

Colby didn't say anything.

The assistant continued, "Mr. Zheng, there are no surveillance cameras in the emergency exit either. Maybe she escaped from there."

For a few more hours, Colby's men paid attention to all entrances and exits on the first floor, but no one suspicious crossed either the front door or the emergency exit. At this point, they thought maybe the intruder had jumped out of a window.

However, since the person didn't steal anything important and currently Colby was in another city, where he didn't have much influence, he didn't take the investigation further. Still, he would remain alert to anything strange around him.

After midnight, the temperature in P City dropped to the lowest in that day, but it didn't affect the atmosphere in James' suite.

Pulling the exhausted woman, James said hoarsely, "Get up, Maria."

Despite hearing his words clearly, she pretended to be dead. She couldn't even move her finger, how the hell would she be able to stand up? She thought that maybe if she ignored him long enough, he would let go of her and let her stay lazily in bed.

After a while, however, James picked her up and carried her into the bathroom in his arms. "Aren't you a tough woman? Let's keep going then!"

Wrapping her arms around his neck, she pressed her face against his strong chest and complained in a low voice, "Didn't I apologize just now? Come on, Mr. Xi, don't be so petty!"

The way he saw it, although she did apologize, she was forced by him at the time.

James was a man with a strong desire to conquer. So, he enjoyed forcing her to talk dirty until she was embarrassed and did things she didn't want to.

In the bathroom, James put the woman under the shower and turned it on. The cold water sprinkled on Maria's naked body, making her shiver. She yelled angrily at him, "James Xi, what's wrong with you? Hmm!"

Once again, his lips crushed down on hers, choking her words. Then James approached Maria and pressed her back against the cold wall.

As much as she wanted to escape, he didn't give her a chance.

Bringing their hands above her head, he intertwined their fingers. As the cold water gradually became warmer, it ran down through their hairs, faces, and bodies.

In her head, Maria recalled that James had turned thirty this year. He always stayed up late in his office to review documents, attend meetings, deal with general work, and would only sleep for a few hours a day. She wondered how he managed to keep himself so vigorous. 'God's so unfair! He not only blessed this man with a good-looking face but also with great health,' Maria sighed inwardly.

She couldn't stand James' attack anymore. All she wanted was to escape from him.

But James wouldn't stop until he saw her crying and begging for his mercy.

Their night only got wilder after that.

The next morning, Maria was still asleep when James left a note for her on the nightstand. After he walked out of the suite, he went straight to the airport and took a flight back to H City.

It was not until noon that Maria slowly opened her eyes and turned over on the soft bed lazily.

'Oh, gosh! James Xi, you bastard!' Maria cursed him in her heart as she felt pain all over her body.

Struggling to keep her eyes open, she looked around and found out she was the only one left in the room.

Once she reached out to get her phone on the nightstand, she saw his note. "If you need anything, send me a message."

Maria raised her eyebrows, wondering if that meant he had already left the city.

James knew she wouldn't ask him for money. So, in those two times they had been together, he left her with nothing but bruises. Maria felt so hopeless! 'James Xi, you are such a petty jerk!' Turning on her cell phone, Maria sent a message to James. "How much do you know about Fosun Entertainment Group?"

"Is this your request for this time?" By the time he received Maria's message, James had already finished a meeting in H City.

"Yep." Maria quickly texted him back.