Chapter 1004 Attempts And Suspicions (1/2)

Zed didn't expect how determined Julie was. Conflicting thoughts stirred inside his head as he thought about what to do next.

”Julie, please go home now. I'll take care of this. I can promise you anything else, as long as you don't go to Jean.”

Julie kept a calm face even as her insides boiled. Just as she opened her mouth to reply, a knock sounded on the door. It was Hess, walking inside with a cup of tea and another cup of coffee.

The tea was for Zed, and since Julie did not particularly like tea, Hess got her coffee instead.

He placed the coffee in front of Julie and gave a discreet but meaningful look. Then, he got out of the room.

Zed started to feel a little thirsty from all the talking and picked up the cup to take a sip of the tea.

Hess was able to catch this before he was completely out of the room. He paused at the doorstep, taking a long look at him and inwardly brimming with pride. 'Perfect, ' he thought. He doubled the amount of drug this time to guarantee that Julie would succeed in seducing Zed.

They had failed last time. Hess blamed it on the drug, thinking that it was a counterfeit, or just not potent enough, but when he tried it for himself, he discovered that it was the real thing.

He was still uncertain about the reason why it had no effect on Zed. Perhaps he had higher resistance? Taking this into consideration, Hess doubled the dose and looked forward to their seeming victory.

What he did not know was that tea in itself was a powerful resisting agent that nullified the drug's effects. In the East, there was an old rule that medicine could not be taken with tea, because the latter would weaken the former's effects.

Of course, Hess could not possibly know about something so implicit in a foreign culture, which was the reason why he chose to serve Zed tea again.

The drug would be diluted by the tea, and so even doubling the amount of drug would not have cause any significant change to a person.

On the contrary, it was Julie who was in trouble.

It wasn't only Zed's drink that had been drugged. In order to give his sister an unforgettable night, Hess had secretly added the drug to Julie's coffee. In his self

”Do you know what you did wrong? It's alright if you just wanted to own me. But you should not have helped Molly leave me!”