Chapter 49 Locked Out
"It's nothing," Matthew answered with a faint tone after a long silence, then turned and walked away.
Samantha didn't chase after him. She watched Matthew's receding figure and sensed his annoyance. Why would he suddenly become so indifferent to her otherwise?
Samantha no longer felt calm when she thought about Leo and what he had just said. She turned around and retraced her steps, but Isabella and Leo had already left.
Samantha took out her phone and dialed Leo's number.
The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered.
Samantha hung up, angrily returning to the dorm room.
Isabella was eating a sandwich. When she saw Samantha coming back, she just glanced at her faintly before continuing to eat the sandwich and watch TV.
Samantha walked up to her and said, "Haven’t you gone too far, Isabella?"
Isabella frowned. She had no intention of paying attention to her.
But Samantha unplugged Isabella's computer. It was as if she had gone mad.
The computer screen suddenly went black, and silence fell in the dorm room.
Samantha held the plug in her hand, staring angrily at Isabella. "I know you hate me for taking Matthew away from you, but did you really have to resort to such despicable means to retaliate against me?"
Isabella looked at her calmly and asked, "Is Leo really your ex-boyfriend?"
Samantha was taken aback. She had exposed herself instead of getting any information out of Isabella. She looked straight into Isabella's eyes, her tone still strong. "So what if he is?"
"It doesn't matter," Isabella said indifferently. "I have no interest in your past relationships."
"Stop lying. If it weren't for you, why did Leo suddenly show up and say those things to try and scare me? Matthew has started doubting me and treating me coldly. Are you satisfied? Are you happy? That's your goal, right? Well, don't even think about it, Isabella! Matthew will never be with you, even if he leaves me."
Isabella looked at Samantha and couldn't help but feel a sense of strangeness. In her experience, Samantha always spoke gently, was polite to everyone, and knew how to maintain appropriate boundaries with other people.
But the Samantha she was seeing right now was completely different from who she previously was. She was acting like an unreasonable and insane person.
"Let me say it again, I have no interest in your emotional experiences. I'm counting to three. You better connect my power cord!"
"Isabella!"
"One!"
Samantha clenched the wire in her hand, shaking with anger.
"Two!"
Samantha glared fiercely at Isabella.
"Three!"
Samantha smirked and plugged in the cord, resentfully saying, "Isabella, since you've declared war on me, you can’t blame me for being your enemy."
Isabella glanced at her, completely unable to understand Samantha's behavior.
Isabella lost her appetite for the sandwich and threw it away since Samantha’s behavior had disturbed her. She took some clean clothes to the bathroom, locked the door, and started to take a shower.
Samantha's eyes filled with malice as she heard the sound of running water from the bathroom,. She turned around, took out a spare key from the drawer, and quietly opened the bathroom door.
Isabella was showering inside the bathroom and didn't notice Samantha coming in. Samantha quietly took away her towel and clothes, then locked the door from the outside and lowered the air conditioning in the bathroom.
After doing that, Samantha sat on the bed and waited. When Isabella finished her shower, found her clothes and towel missing and realized she wouldn’t be able to open the bathroom door, she would definitely apologize and beg for forgiveness.
A triumphant smile appeared on Samantha's face.
At that moment, her phone suddenly rang twice. Leo had sent her two pictures.
Samantha opened them and suddenly stood up, staring intently at the phone screen.
She called Leo again, and he picked up.
Samantha cursed. "What the hell do you want, Leo?"
Leo's careless laughter came through the receiver. "Why are you so worked up? I have many more photos and videos like that."
"You’re shameless, Leo!"
"You know my personality, Samantha. You shouldn’t provoke me, otherwise, I’ll send those precious photos to your boyfriend."
Samantha's attitude immediately softened as she restrained her anger. "What do you want to do? I can exchange money for those photos."
Leo chuckled and said, "I'll be waiting for you at the place we used to meet. I'll give you ten minutes. If I don't see you after ten minutes, I'll send those pictures to Matthew."
"I'm coming to see you right now!" Samantha picked up her bag and walked out, muttering, "I won't let you off the hook, Leo."
Isabella finished her shower and realized that her clothes and towel were missing.
She reached out to open the bathroom door, but it was locked from the outside.
At that moment, a cold breeze blew out of the air conditioning vent above her head.
She had just finished her shower and felt extremely cold as the cold wind blew at her.
Isabella pulled at the door a few times, but couldn't open it. She knew what was going on. "Samantha, open the door!"
There was no response.
"Samantha, don't be so childish! Open the door!"
No matter how Isabella shouted, there was still no response from outside.
Isabella shivered slightly in the silence. She thought about how crazed Samantha had looked and figured it was possible that she had locked her in the bathroom until she froze to death.
Isabella didn't want to wait for help any longer, but she couldn't find any tools to pry the door open when she looked around. No matter how hard she tried, the door to the bathroom remained closed.
Isabella was in despair. Her phone outside rang for a while. Isabella tried to use her voice assistant to answer the call through the door, but it was too far away and the phone couldn’t pick up her voice. After the phone rang for a while, the call automatically hung up.
At the same time, at the Landon Group, Jack put his phone down and said to Sebastian, "She still hasn't answered."
"What’s going on?" Sebastian frowned slightly and said, "Go check on her. I'm worried about her."
He had left early in the morning for work and to avoid an awkward situation with Isabella. After all, he had lost control last night, so he had left the suite early to spare Isabella from embarrassment,.
Before leaving, he had left her a note and given her a day off. That meant she wasn't at the company all day. Sebastian couldn't focus on his work since he was constantly worried about her. His worry persisted throughout the day until the evening, when he asked Jack to call Isabella to check on her.
He didn't expect that she wouldn’t answer Jack’s many calls.
Sebastian's concern grew. He feared that Isabella couldn't handle the pressure and would harm herself.
"Alright, I'll go right away," Jack nodded in agreement.
As he was about to leave, Sebastian called him back. "Wait!"
After a moment of thought, Sebastian stood up. "I'll go with you."
