Alessa was kept busy with the papers for another two hours. After the last document was done, Alessa stood up and hurried away with her handbag. She felt dizzy because she hadn’t eaten a thing all day, carelessly bumping into the desk on her way to the elevator in the dark.
"Ouch --" With the pain on her leg, which must be bruised, she dared not delay, went downstairs in a hurry and stopped a taxi. It was 9:30 pm when she got back to Beverly Hills. Alessa could only hope that Brian hadn’t come back yet.
If he had already gotten back to Beverly Hills and found that she was not home, he would have called to find her, but she had received no call from him. Alessa breathed a sigh of relief. But then her leg ached, and she almost blacked out.
Suffering from anemia, she was extremely faint as
