Chapter 52 Afraid of You Harming Yourself
"Should we take her to the hospital?" the dormitory administrator asked in concern.
Isabella shook her head and said, "No... no need... to go to the hospital... I... I have a blanket... in a while... I should be fine..."
She looked at Sebastian and said, "Mr... Mr. Landon... why... why did you come here?"
"I was worried about you," Sebastian looked at her and gently said, "I was worried that you would do something to harm yourself. But then I thought you were timid and probably wouldn't do something like that."
"Harm myself?" Isabella said, "I didn't... do anything to harm... myself."
"Then why did you lock yourself in the bathroom and turn the air conditioning so low?" Sebastian said angrily, frowning. It was unclear whether he was angry at Isabella or at himself.
Isabella said, "It was... Samantha..."
"Samantha? Did she do this?" the dormitory administrator said angrily, "That girl not only stole your boyfriend, but she also did this to harm you. She's very malicious."
Sebastian said, "Jack, call the police."
Suddenly, the back of his hand felt cool. He looked down and saw Isabella's hand reaching out from under the blanket. It was as if she had been looking for something but had accidentally touched his hand.
Isabella blushed and quickly pulled her hand back, saying, "I... I was looking for my phone."
"Your phone is here," Sebastian took the phone from the table and handed it to her.
Isabella took the phone, but she was trembling heavily, and she couldn’t hold the phone properly, even though she was using both hands. It was hard for her to even unlock the phone.
Sebastian took the phone and said, "I'll help you."
"What's the password?"
Isabella hesitated for a moment, then told him the password.
After unlocking the phone, Sebastian showed her the phone screen and asked, "What do you want to see?"
"Call... call history."
Sebastian opened the call history page, showing dozens of missed calls, most of them from Jack, and a small number from himself. Of course, Sebastian had asked Jack to make those calls. There were also a few calls from another unknown number.
Sebastian pointed to that number and asked, "Do you want to call that number back?"
Isabella knew that it was Matthew's number. After they broke up, she deleted his number, and he never called her again. She didn't know why he had called her so many times today.
Isabella shook her head and said, "No... no need."
As she finished speaking, the phone rang.
Sebastian glanced at the number and said, "He's calling, do you want to answer?"
Isabella shook her head.
Sebastian hung up the call on her behalf.
Sebastian placed his phone next to her pillow and turned around to make her a cup of hot water.
Outside, Jack made a phone call to report the situation to the police. As soon as he finished, he saw Matthew.
Sebastian had a younger brother, but the only person in the entire company who knew about him was Jack. He had worked for Sebastian for a long time, so he knew some of the reasons why Sebastian had a bad relationship with his family. When he saw Matthew, Jack did not greet him. He turned around to push open the door of room 3202. Matthew's hand happened to reach out as well.
They both paused at the same time and looked at each other in surprise.
At this moment, the dormitory administrator came out. She was on the phone, saying, "Wait for me there, I'll be right down."
The dormitory administrator opened the door and saw Matthew. She immediately hung up and said to him, "What you did was really too much, Matthew! You cheated on Isabella with her friend Samantha when you were dating her, and now you want to harm Isabella. You and Samantha are a perfect match!"
After speaking, she didn't want to look at Matthew again. She turned to Jack and said, "Isabella has someone with her now, I'll go downstairs to deal with something."
"Okay," Jack politely nodded in thanks.
When the dormitory administrator left, Jack and Matthew entered the room one after the other.
The room had the heater on and was a little hot. Sebastian took off his coat and draped it over the back of a chair. He was bent over with one hand supporting Isabella's head, feeding her water.
When he heard the sound of the door opening, he turned around and glanced at Matthew, but his expression did not change.
Matthew walked over, looked at Isabella's pale face, and asked, "What happened to Isabella?"
Jack replied, "Samantha locked her in the bathroom, turned on the air conditioning, and planned to freeze her to death. We couldn't reach her on the phone, so we stopped by to check on her. Otherwise, who knows what would have happened if she had been trapped inside overnight."
If someone was trapped in there for even a few hours, they would freeze to death. It was really hard to understand how a girl could have such a wicked idea!
Matthew asked in shock, "Did Samantha do this?"
"I've already reported this to the police. They’ll be here soon. I believe they’ll find out the truth," Jack said coldly.
No one can interfere in matters of love, but if Matthew helped Samantha with this, he would really have been blinded by love and be unable to distinguish right from wrong.
A silence fell over the room. Suddenly, Matthew's phone rang. He glanced at his phone and answered the call. "Hello."
Samantha's voice came through the receiver. "Matthew, I just got home. Are you home yet?"
Matthew stayed quiet for a few seconds and said, "I'm in your dorm."
"My dorm?" Samantha asked in panic. "Why are you at the dorm?"
"If I hadn't come here, how would I have found out you tried to freeze someone to death in the bathroom?" Matthew's voice sounded calm but cold.
"Matthew, what are you saying? I don’t understand you."
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. The police have been called, so you can explain yourself to them," Matthew said and hung up.
Samantha wanted to call him again, but the police were already calling her.
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Half an hour later, the police arrived with Samantha.
An officer took statements from everyone and, after understanding what happened, looked at Samantha and asked, "Are you saying it wasn't intentional?"
"I really didn't mean to do that," Samantha said as she cried. "I was just trying to play a joke on Isabella. But something came up suddenly. I went out and ran into my boyfriend, so I forgot about it. I really didn't mean to do it, please believe me!"
"I really didn't mean to do it, Matthew. Please believe me!" Samantha reached out to grab Matthew's sleeve, but he avoided her disdainfully.
Samantha looked at Jack, but Jack just looked out the window.
She turned to Sebastian, knowing that the key to this whole thing lay with him. Samantha kneeled in front of Sebastian.
