CHAPTER 9: CHAPTER 9: ASK LESS, SPEAK LESS

Upon hearing this name, Shannon Quinn felt her heart skip a beat, and her hand froze with the phone, staring blankly at the man in the darkness.

The light was very dim, only a silhouette could be discerned.

Moreover, even if he wasn’t so heavily disguised, she wouldn’t be able to tell who he was because she had never seen Vincent Rhodes.

"Why... why should I trust what you’re saying?"

She saw him slowly reach into his clothes and take out something, handing it over to her: "I think this will make you believe me."

Shannon Quinn only saw a flash in the darkness, but she couldn’t see what it was.

Hesitantly, she crawled up from the bed, clutching the phone tightly in one hand and reaching out with the other to take what was in his hand.

It was a ring.

She recognized this ring; it was the wedding ring given to her when she married into the Rhodes Family.

"...Are you really Vincent Rhodes?" Shannon Quinn looked at the man in the darkness, and if she didn’t know he was under thirty, she might have thought he was a much older gentleman.

Even though it was confirmed that the man in front of her was Vincent Rhodes, her never-seen husband, Shannon Quinn didn’t feel any joy.

There were too many disturbing rumors about him in the outside world.

And people instinctively fear the unknown, Shannon Quinn was even more concerned about why he appeared.

Especially after what happened last night. Could it be that he found out?

"...Why are you here?" Shannon Quinn asked guiltily and fearfully, as if realizing the implication of her words was off, she quickly corrected, "I mean... you’ve been gone for so long, why show up now..."

"It’s only that you haven’t seen me, but I know everything about you."

Shannon Quinn was shocked, wondering what his words meant. Was he insinuating her entanglement with another man last night?

So he was here to reckon with her?

She swallowed hard and asked cautiously, "Then why are you here now... Is there something you need?"

"I just came to remind you that people are deceitful, and the environment you are in is complex, so do not easily trust anyone."

His voice sounded like a seasoned elder giving advice to his successor, but Shannon Quinn felt devastated.

Though he didn’t mention last night’s incident, his words seemed to refer to her being deceived by June Yardley.

Her heart was suddenly filled with more guilt; regardless of what kind of terrifying person he was, she shouldn’t have betrayed him.

Although unwillingly, it was still her own doing.

She pursed her lips, hesitating whether to proactively confess and explain, as he wheeled himself outside.

"...Where are you going?"

He stopped, with his back turned to her said: "Ask less, say less, the more you know, the more dangerous you become."

After those words, he moved forward again, disappearing into the darkness.

Shannon Quinn hadn’t yet collected her thoughts when the room light suddenly came on.

Earlier, he probably didn’t want her to see his appearance and deliberately cut off the power.

She quickly got up and rushed to the balcony, looking down from the high-rise, staring for a long time without seeing him leave the building. The car must be parked in the underground parking lot, leaving directly from the garage.

No longer sleepy, she couldn’t have expected Vincent Rhodes to appear suddenly, and how much he knew about her affairs?

Judging from the brief interaction just now, the rumors were both true and false; indeed he was disabled, but certainly not foolish.

Who exactly is he? Where does he live usually? What kinds of things does he do?

Thinking haphazardly about a myriad of things kept her awake.

With fatigue, she headed to the studio, already in an irritable mood from not sleeping well, and first thing in the morning she saw someone she loathed at the studio.