Under the relentless bombardment of the reporters, Annie snapped out of her daze and glared at Jane with intense anger. It was all Jane's doing! She had forced Annie to drink that glass of red wine, which made her embarrass herself in front of so many people.
"Jane, you bitch! You're the one who caused this!" Annie shouted as she angrily got up and swung a slap at Jane.
But before Annie could even touch Jane, a large hand grabbed her and pushed her down hard onto the ground. When she looked up, she saw Bruce standing in front of her with his piercing blue eyes filled with disgust.
"Annie, I'm so disappointed in you for doing something like this. Are you really that shameless to be so desperate for any man? Do you have no morals?" Bruce accused.
Annie felt panicked under Bruce's reproachful gaze. How could things have turned out like this? Even Bruce had come over and seen her with that blonde guy...
"It's not true, Bruce! Please listen to me; I don't even know him!" Annie quickly explained.
"My dear girl, why would you say such a thing when we both know each other so well?" The blonde guy spoke up unhappily as he slowly stood up from the sofa. "You said yourself that you love me more than anything else and would marry me."
The blonde guy had been paid off to claim publicly that he was an old flame of hers from inside the conference room. Since he didn't recognize Jane, he assumed it was Annie who he was supposed to be pretending about.
He then put on quite an act by wrapping his arm around Annie while saying: "Don't be shy now my dear; we're both adults here after all. It's perfectly normal for men and women to enjoy each other's company."
"I don't know you; let go of me!" cried out Annie as she pushed him away helplessly while pointing at Jane: "It was Jane! She drugged me! I don't even know this man!"
The reporters present were quick-witted enough to catch onto those words: 'drug'... This situation wasn't simple at all, but nobody dared ask anything in front of Bruce and Patrick.
Florence understood what happened though - it must've been because Annie revealed something incriminating without realizing it, which led to being caught by Jane. Then Jane gave Annie that glass of red wine to drink, which led to the situation now.
Annie really couldn't handle anything properly…even such small matters were messed up by herself!
"You bitch! You did this to me!" Annie just went crazy and wanted to fight Jane.
Bruce stepped in front of Jane, frowning as he questioned Annie, "Annie, why did Jane want to harm you? Weren't you here tonight to apologize to her?"
Annie's eyes flickered as she replied, "Yes, I came here with good intentions to apologize to Jane. But she plotted against me and harmed me instead."
"Enough, Annie," Jane said with a smirk. "Have you ever heard the saying 'digging your own grave'?"
Annie had already been punished and Jane didn't want to say anything more. But now that Annie was unrepentant and even tried to turn the tables on her by accusing her of drugging her drink, Jane wasn't going easy on her.
Her eyes turned cold as she continued speaking. "You pretended to apologize but spiked my wine with drugs. Unfortunately for you, it backfired."
"You're lying! I didn't do it!" Annie yelled uncontrollably.
She planned on denying everything and pinning the blame on Jane for drugging her instead.
"See for yourself then! This is your online purchase record of aphrodisiacs," Jane threw the evidence in front of Annie's face.
After giving that glass of red wine laced with drugs to Annie earlier that night, she had Anthony investigate into Annie's purchase history - which led them straight into discovering this damning evidence.
The reporters saw the online purchase records and couldn't help but express their disgust at what they saw.
"So it really was Annie doing it after all... I can't believe it."
"How despicable! Thank goodness Miss North didn't fall for it!"
Faced with everyone's criticism and condemnation towards her actions tonight - which were entirely self-inflicted - there was nothing left for Annie except silence.
"Annie, everything that happened today is a result of your own doing. You have only yourself to blame," said Jane before turning around and leaving. She didn't want to stay here for one more second.
Patrick took a long leg and followed. "Jane, where are you going?"
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