Love beyond the mask (Whitney) novel Chapter 1120

"Ugh... cough, cough," Parisa gasped, struggling against Bryce's brute strength. She'd been putting up a fight for what felt like ages, but unarmed and exhausted, she had nothing left to resist with.

The drug was forced down her throat, and she couldn't even cough it back up.

Bryce hauled her up and shoved her toward the stone table, pressing a pen into her hand. "Florence, how long until this stuff kicks in?" he asked, his voice laced with impatience.

"The hallucinogen will work fast," Florence replied with a cold smirk.

Bryce narrowed his eyes, watching for any change in Parisa’s glazed expression.

At that moment, his secretary burst into the cave, breathless and anxious. "Mr. Lutz, something's wrong!"

"What's got you all worked up?" Bryce snapped, his gaze icy and penetrating.

"I heard voices down the mountain!" the secretary pointed outside. "We're on a peak surrounded by dense forest and a steep gorge. Nobody should be here at this hour… Plus, I got a call from your villa. The security folks said—"

Bryce’s eyes darkened, fixating on the cave entrance. "What did they say?"

The secretary dashed off to follow orders.

Bryce ran his fingers covetously over the contracts and cast a glance at Parisa, now slumped and powerless on the floor. Florence's hallucinogen had done its job well.

"Florence, we're staking everything on tonight. Now that we have what we wanted, Parisa can't be left alive. But killing her here? Too obvious, too messy. She needs to vanish into these mountains. There's a gorge nearby... people have fallen in before, right?"

Florence caught the drift immediately, her resolve hardening. "Then we'll make sure she has an 'accident' into the gorge. There's an undercurrent down there. But if the police find out, how do we explain why she was wandering in the wilderness?"