Chapter 254

“No, no, no!” Zebulon waved his hands frantically.
Anna shot Zebulon a disgusted look, then turned back to Louis. “You have your fun first. We’ll come back to clean up later.”
With that, she grabbed Zebulon and started to leave, but just then, Penelope sat up.
Her eyes were clear, and a mocking smile played on her lips. She looked anything but drugged.
She tossed a small plastic bag onto the table-the one she had spit the drugged liquor into.
“I knew the drink was tainted,” she said, standing up and fixing the three of them with a cold stare. “Of course I wasn’t going to swallow it.”
“But I truly never imagined,” she continued, her voice laced with contempt, “that you were capable of something like this.”
Anna’s eyes narrowed. “You were pretending to be unconscious you
Penelope took out her phone and pressed the stop button on the recording app.
“You were recording!” Anna gasped, a cold sweat breaking out on her skin as she realized what they had said while Penelope was “unconscious.” “Quick, get her phone!”
Louis and Zebulon, realizing the gravity of the situation, lunged at Penelope. She took a few steps back and then smashed her phone on the ground. It shattered into pieces.
The three of them stared at the wreckage, confused by her move. Thıs content belongs to
“That phone was synced to my network before I even walked in here,” she explained calmly. “Which means that entire recording has already been uploaded.”
“You dare set me up!” Louis snarled. “You don’t know who you’re dealing with! My men are right across the hall-”
He gestured to the other room, only to see his men slumped over tables and on the floor.
“They’re
“I had someone put a little something in their drinks.”
“My men are always on alert. There’s no way you could have pulled that off so easily!”
“Actually, it was quite easy.”
The voice didn’t belong to Penelope.
It came from a woman-no, a man-who emerged from the other room dressed in a miniskirt and heavy makeup, swaying his hips with dramatic flair. It was Norton.
“All I had to do was pitch my voice up a little and say, ‘Alright, boys, whoever downs this drink the fastest gets a kiss from little ol’ me. Just like that they were all fighting to chug the special cocktails poured for them.”
Louis’ jaw dropped. “You’re… you’re a man?”
Norton fluttered his eyelashes. “One hundred percent.”
“Ha! You think you can get away just because you drugged my men? The three of
us are more than enough to handle you two!” Louis shouted, signaling to Zebulon and Anna before charging at Penelope.
Louis knew a few moves, but he was
no match for Penelope. Within a dozen exchanges, he had taken several blows to his face, his ribs, and even his groin. She finished with a spinning kick that connected squarely with his head, sending him crashing to the floor.
Anna shoved Zebulon forward. He barely took a step before a kick landed squarely
on his face.
“Zebulon, you are pathetic.”
He clutched his face. “This wasn’t my idea, I—”
“I was done with you, Zebulon,” Penelope interrupted, her voice dangerously low.
“But after today, I will make sure you are utterly and completely ruined.”
With that, she delivered another kick that sent him flying out of the room, unconscious.
Seeing that the tables had turned, Anna made a run for it. But Norton, with surprising speed, grabbed a vase and hurled it at her back. She stumbled and fell, hitting her head hard on the floor.
“How dare you touch me… I’m Ms. Flores… My brother is friends with Theodore… I She passed out before she could finish.
Norton scoffed. “Is she trying to scare us with Theodore’s name?”
Penelope walked over to Zebulon and slapped him awake.
“I have the recording,” she said, her voice like ice. “You know what you need to do.”