Chapter 27: Take a Hin

Linda was happy; she reached out her hand to shake his, "Mr. Peter, thank you for your tolerance."

"Miss Smith, you can hold your liquor, but I am sure you can do better,"

Peter said as he held his hand out to Kate.

Kate reluctantly smiled, and politely reached out. She thought it would just be a handshake, she never expected Peter to grab the back of her hand, and then approach her, forcing her into his arms.

The world was spinning, and Kate's stomached burned, but she managed to violently push him away, "What do you think you are doing?"

Knowing the longer, she stayed with Peter and Linda; she would be in more danger, Kate politely said, "I have apologized and accepted my punishment. Can you please let me go?"

Peter gave Linda a meaningful glance and said coldly, "She cannot take a hint at all. Why does your company let her work there?"

Linda pretended to be embarrassed, "Don't be angry, Mr. Peter. I guess Kate is drunk, so she …"

Kate tried to leave, but she got dizzy, she grasped the door handle and reached for her phone before she passed out. She managed to say, "Lisa, pick me up at the River Hotel immediately!"

Lisa was confused, but from Kate's tone, she assumed she was in extreme trouble. When she hung up with Kate, she remembered that she had Joseph's number and quickly called him.

As soon as the call connected, she didn't wait for him to say anything; she just anxiously said, "Joseph, it is Lisa, and if anything happens to Kate, I will hurt you!"

Even though he was the distinguished CEO of Smith Group, to Lisa, he was nothing more than the one who bullied her best friend. She was angry and upset that she didn't care about threatening him.

Joseph frowned and questioned Lisa, "What has happened to her? Where is she?"

Lisa wondered if Joseph was acting like he didn't know, but then she realized he might be worried when he hung up on her.

He called Amy to see if Kate was home, but she wasn't there, so he called Linda.

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"Huh, am I a criminal?" Peter's face changed suddenly, and he viciously walked toward Kate, "I am not stupid enough not to take advantage of a special delivery!"

Linda took a step back in fear of Peter's actions. She knew that Joseph didn't love Kate, so she wasn't to do anything to stop him; she planned to watch the struggle.

"Let me go!" Kate shouted madly, "Linda, Mr. Peter has drunk too much. Can you... ah!"

Before she could finish speaking, Peter's mouth was on her neck. Kate was so stunned that she froze. Suddenly, a smile appeared on Linda's face; she took out her phone and began to take pictures.

When Linda's phone rang, she almost dropped it. She was too scared to answer Joseph's call.

"I advise you to take the hint, or I will show you true bullying!" Peter slapped Kate, knocking her to the ground, then pounced on her like a beast.

Kate was so scared that she cried out angrily, "Son of a bitch, get off me!"

Fearing that Joseph would hear Kate's cries, Linda stepped into the bathroom, and cautiously answered her phone, "Lord Smith, what can I do for you?"

"Where is Kate?!" Joseph questioned coldly.

"Miss Smith? She should be home from work now." Linda was afraid of getting into trouble, so she tried to play dumb.

"You have two minutes to find Kate!" Joseph hung up the phone after he gave Linda her orders.

Linda was so frightened, but she could not understand why Joseph was worried. She thought that he told her to be tough on Kate, but yet he was looking for her.  She knew that it was not a good idea to offend Joseph; she rushed to open the door and stop Peter.

"Mr. Peter, I am so sorry. I misunderstood what Joseph Smith said. He told me to be cruel to her, but he meant only at work; there was no intention to allow others to hurt her. Can you please get up? I just found out that this woman is Joseph's wife, and if I offend him, it will not end well for me…"

"f**k, I almost succeeded!" Peter yelled, then he got off of Kate and pulled up his pants.

Kate was nearly unconscious, but she heard Joseph's name, and that he said it was okay to hurt her. She never thought he would be so cruel to her.

Linda walked over to help Kate up, "Miss Smith, I'll take you home."

Fearing that Kate would pass out from the alcohol, Linda pinched her hard every few minutes to keep her awake the entire drive home.

About thirty minutes later, they arrived at the Smith home.

"Please come to help her!" Linda waved at the guard.

Joseph left the office immediately after speaking to Linda. He heard the car pull into the drive and went out to greet them. He looked coldly at Kate, who was being held up by a guard.

"Sorry, Lord Smith. Kate had a lot to drink tonight because of work. I didn't dare to tell you over the phone for fear of being scolded by you. She's home now; I'll not bother you." Linda wanted to leave as soon as possible to avoid getting into trouble.

"Stop!" Joseph Smith glanced at Kate again, and then scrutinized the nervous Linda, "Did you force her to drink?"

Linda shivered in shock and hastily denied, "No, no, no. Kate was in a bad mood, so she had a few drinks all on her own..."

"Oh, no..." Kate said she began to throw up.

Joseph gave her a disgusted look before saying to Linda, "You can leave now."

"Okay," Linda was relieved. She even glanced at Kate before leaving and was very happy to see her miserable looking.

"Amy, clean this up and her too!" Joseph demanded as he walked back into the mansion.

Seeing that Joseph was inside, Amy didn't need to be kind to Kate any longer. She grumbled, "This is disgusting! And to make it worse, it that you are the one I need to clean up after!"

Kate had actually felt a lot better after throwing up the once, but after she heard Amy cursing, she began to make vomiting noise. Amy jumped back as if she had been splashed with a toxic poison.

Kate smiled with extreme joy when she saw her frightened look but

Amy was even angrier when she learned that Kate was deliberately trying to scare her, "I didn't think that you were pretending to be drunk!"

"Urghh!" Kate ignored her and continued to pretend like she was going to vomit again.