Chapter Twenty: Trap

The night hung over the city like a velvet curtain, casting shadows that danced in the glow of distant streetlights. Emily, having settled into the rhythm of their new life in the country she had once tried to leave behind, found herself at ease amid the unfamiliar surroundings.

Yet, on this particular night, a phone call would unravel a sequence of events that would veer her path into uncharted territories.

Her phone vibrated, the screen illuminating with the caller's name—Sophia, a close friend who had paid for half of her mother's hospitalization before and the only friend who came to her mother's funeral.

She unconsciously picks up the phone, loud voices come from the other side, it seems similar to a nightclub.

“Hello?… Hello!”

But no one answered her for a long time, Emily felt suspicious and frowned her eyebrows. She was about to hang up when a poor voice of a man came to the other side: “Are you Sophia’s friends?”

“Uh … yes.”

The man replied: “She is drunk now, and doesn’t wake up, can you come over and take her?”

Is Sophia okay!?

Emily subconsciously wants to refuse, she doesn’t want to clean up her mess! But she remembered how Sophia was good to her mother before.

It's been a long time since they in contact. They got into a fight because Sophia despised her for having a child without marriage.

However, her heart is worried about her. Maybe because she was good to her mother before.

When the man did not hear her voice for a long time, he asked: “Hello?”, Emily sighed and asked: “Where is that?”

“Moonlight!”

Moonlight, the most famous nightclub in the capital, was known for the consumption of luxury, mostly rich people were the big spenders, but there were also some ruffians to have fun, so Moonlight was also known as chaos.

Drugs, gambling, shady deals, one night, it was a dark vault.

In the news, you can often see people fighting and always have heavy casualties. However, despite such a mess, the law cannot stop their operation, because Moonlight is different from other nightclubs, there is a very strong background, and there are so many people who did not dare to touch it.

When Emily stepped inside, the place was full of cigar smoke…

Along the way, licentious pairs of men and women reflected in her eyes, the atmosphere was overflowing with erosion but looked very luxurious.

The waiter took her into a VIP room that the man mentioned. When Emily entered the door she smelled a strong fragrance of alcohol and smoke mixing.

When she turned her sight around their circle, she saw Sophia lying on the side of the sofa, drunk and unconscious. There's a man on top of her, groping her body with a lewd smile.

“Hey? This chick is very pretty, she looks great, and looks much better than these ladies! Hahaha”

"Remind me of the toys that we play before...Hahaha". The topless man said.

"Ah, the young girl before...she's pure, then after being passed around...she becomes a slut." The youth that hugged the woman suddenly said.

Some people said: “Yeah! Now it’s rare to see a pure girl like her! I don’t know what is the taste of a pure girl in bed! It must be wonderful!”

Those filthy words are unbearable.

Emily was shocked by those rich men’s words, just when she was listening to them a “bang” sound was heard. The waiter respectfully closed this small door. She felt a little embarrassed to stand there and she could not move.

To tell the truth, her heartfelt scared of this small group of rich men, she walks away.

A rich young man with a tattoo on his arm, got up and stomped over at the table, he stepped forward grabbed her wrist and smiled with an ill intent:” What are you going to do with your friends?”

Emily bit her lips, with hesitation, she had to go back and look at unconscious Sophia, and said: “I … … that, I will take her away.”

“Right now?” one rich young man smiled and frowned, “How disappointing! Don’t go yet ah! Accompany This brother with a few drinks!”

The rich young man took her shoulder and introduced a few men to her on the sofa one by one: “Come on, I will introduce them to you, This is our boss, he is called Brother Ross, and the brother sitting next to him is black brother, the huge… ”

Emily can no longer withstand and push away his clamping arm, she said: “I don’t want to drink! I came to… get Sophia back!”

The rich young man listened, but a “Puchi” sneer was heard, “You don’t want to drink? Then my brother and I will do something else!”

His eyes glance at her chest, and stretches out his hands to touch her face!

Emily panicked and escaped, apparently his desire got her scared, she shouted at him: “What are you doing?!”

“What? Of course, giving you a bonus!” the rich young man crooked his head, and half-jokingly replied.

Behind him, another rich young man screamed, “What’s that … Emily, right? Don’t be stupid, come here and sit down! Let the waiter open a few bottles of whiskey!”

Emily shook her head and glanced at Sophia, “I don’t drink! I… Let go!”

She turned around and wanted to leave. The rich young man had caught her hand, grabbed her wrist, and forcefully dragged her back.

Emily exclaimed a loud cry, she struggled, but the rich young man had her wrist.

He glanced at her from head to toe and said: “Hey, don’t do that. This best friend of yours doesn’t understand a thing, and you also don’t understand the rules?”

Emily frowns: “What do you mean?”

“What do I mean?” The rich young man smiled, and loudly mocked: “Your friends came to us to play without money and use our drugs to bet, every day she depends on us, so no less, she owed us five hundred thousand!”

The rich young man smiled, and loudly mocked: “Your best friends came to us to play without money and used our drugs to bet, every day she depended on us, so no less, she owed us Five hundred thousand!”

Five hundred thousand!

Emily’s eyes widened, she felt her mind was spinning.

Five hundred thousand… even if she's a managing editor now, she still cannot afford this debt!

She was so shocked, her whole body got stiff like a stone, the rich young man continued: “If you have no money, you can't go, it’s boring if you have no money, right? But still, you can personally discuss it with Brother Ross”

Brother Ross is their leader, and this leader keeps on gambling and smoking in front of them, the sexy woman around his arm is also playing seriously, then he pinches off his cigarettes away, smiles and says: “Your best friends can’t afford to pay us, you have a money, right?”

Emily’s face darkens, “I… I have no money.”

The rich young man felt despair: “No money? Brother Ross, this bitch said she had no money!”

“Five hundred thousand is not a small number.”

When Brother Ross heard her, he showed an indecent smile.

“You have no money, your dear best friends also have no money!”

The rich young man then looks at her delicate cheeks and seems very satisfied.

“Look at you, you look so beautiful, why don’t you accompany Brother Ross to play for a few days? Brother Ross despises those women outside! So Beautiful girl, you should be happy ah!”

“No!” Emily refused.

The rich young man laughed, gently patted her cheek, and pointed his finger to Brother Ross, “Hey, don’t be ungrateful ah! Do you know who that man is? He is the boss of a street bar, and you dare to reject him, do you want to die?”

He forced her to sit on the sofa, Brother Ross wrapped his arm around her, his other hand poured a whiskey in a glass, his fingertips wiped a white powder along the wine glass, and he handed it to her.

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