Everyone immediately worked together to block Connor’s view of me as they stood in front of me frantically to greet him. "Hello, Mr. Milford!"

Connor's expression cooled when he saw how messy the room looked. His curt words sent chills down everyone's spines. "What happened here? Why is it so messy?"

Ruby was the first to snap out of it. She smiled coquettishly. "It's nothing. I was just having some fun with my friends."

"Why is there someone lying down behind you?"

I could not make any noise with the gag in my mouth. Ruby took the opportunity to make up stories to smear my name. "Oh, sweetie, that's just a slutty vixen. You have no idea how horrible she is. She's trying to seduce you by wearing a similar dress to mine!

"Fortunately, my friends were here to protect me. Otherwise, she might’ve ended up replacing me in this wedding and marrying you."

Tears filled her eyes as she leaned into Connor's arms coyly to get some comfort from him. Connor started to console his petite wife. His voice was filled with danger as he was prepared to execute anyone who had crossed her.

"How did security allow a stranger to enter this place? Do they still want their jobs? How dare they allow such filth to dirty our wedding!"

Ruby was satisfied with the outcome and wiped away her tears. "I'm fine now, sweetie. Don't be mad."

She silently looked around to enjoy the envious gazes everyone was throwing at her. She would always parade her relationship around to satisfy her great ego.

When her husband took her side, Ruby was even more confident that beating me up was the right move. After all, she had to fight off any potential love rivals, and I was the best candidate to be hung out to dry as a warning to other women.

"All of my family members are here, baby. Come with me to meet my elders."

Connor held Ruby's hand as he said, "By the way, my foster mother might be young, but she was the one who helped me behind the scenes with great advice when I was expanding my business. Everyone in my company respects her a lot.

"She's part of the Henderson family. They have strict family rules and place great emphasis on etiquette. Make sure you don’t make any mistakes when you meet her."

"Don't worry, sweetie. I just helped her teach someone who disrespected her a lesson. She will definitely love me." Ruby blinked at him innocently as she nodded her head in affirmation.

As they were about to leave, I held back my pain to hit my head desperately against the table corner and was finally able to create some noise. Connor looked over at me. I was close to dying.

Ruby stood in front of Connor coyly, and her cherry lips pouted. "She's the vixen who wanted to seduce you. You shouldn't even be looking at her. It would only disgust you."

When Connor saw my disheveled clothes, he raised his hand to wave the bodyguards in with repulsion. "Get rid of anyone unimportant."

As he brushed by me to leave, the phone that I was gripping tight in the palm of my hand fell next to his foot. He paused for a moment and stopped the bodyguard from dragging me out.

He started questioning me sternly as rage filled his voice. "How did you get your hands on this phone?"

I looked up at him. My face was covered with blood and bruises. I looked so horrible from my wounds that he could not recognize me at all.

Connor instructed the bodyguard to remove my gag and continued questioning me about where my phone came from.

I spat out the piece of glass that was covered in my blood and spit. The thin scab on the corner of my lips ruptured with this action, and a thin river of blood dripped all the way down to my chin.

I looked up pitifully at Connor as I opened my mouth to call out to him hoarsely, "Connor…"