Chapter 375 Lunatic Later, the cleaning staff cast a furtive glance around, slipping in quickly when no one was paying attention.
It was a shared dressing room with eight separate dressing booths. The main door was typically left ajar, relying on individuals to lock their own booths.
Now, with no one else in the other booths, Raegan was the only one inside the whole dressing room.
Suddenly, a distinctive click echoed. It was sound of the main door being locked.
"Who's there?" Raegan's perplexed voice came from her booth.
The cleaning staff, who was hunched over, erupted into unsettling laughter.
Then, she abruptly straightened up, yanking down her mask to unveil a chilling face.
It was none other than Lauren, who had been missing for a long time.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Raegan, guess who I am..." Lauren asked in a sing-song tone, her voice hoarse and dry. "Guess who I am..." Holding a sharp dagger in her hand with a look of madness in her eyes, Lauren strolled into the dressing room.
A hushed stillness prevailed.
Aware of a lunatic as Lauren lurking outside her booth, Raegan held her breath, maintaining silence.
A loud bang echoed through the dressing room. Lauren forcefully swung open the door of the first dressing booth, discovering that it was vacant,
Then, Lauren moved to the second one, finding it also unoccupied.
After trying three booths in a row with no success, Lauren lost her patience.
"Bitch!" she shouted sharply. "Come out!" When she received nothing but silence in response, Lauren altered her tone to a more cautious one. "Come out. If you come out now, I'll go easy on you, okay?" From the moment she entered the dressing room, Lauren kept fluctuating between shouting and speaking softly, with wild laughter sprinkled in between. She was a complete lunatic! "Are you feeling scared? After all, you're stuck now, right? Let me tell you a secret. I put a hallucinogen in the coffee when I bumped into you. Just a sniff of it and you won't be able to move. Don't keep dreaming that you'll
be able to escape. No one will come and save you," Lauren said confidently.
Before entering the dressing room, Lauren had placed the "Do Not Use" sign outside the door, eliminating any chances of someone coming in.
As Lauren walked down the room, she slid the sharp dagger across the wooden boards, creating a terrifying hissing sound.
The more Raegan remained silent, the more excited Lauren became. She felt like she was playing hide and seek.
With a cackle, Lauren said, "I'm going to start counting down the seconds now. When I find you, for every second that passes..." Lauren paused and giggled, as if she could barely contain her glee. "I'll give you a new cut! If you hurry out now, you'll suffer less." After saying that, Lauren pushed open
the door of the fourth booth, which also turned out to be empty.
She laughed as she counted, "Ter, eleven, twelve..." By the time Lauren reached the door of the sixth booth, she had counted to forty.
Once again, a loud bang resounded through the room.
But this time, the door didn't budge.
Unlike the other doors, this one was locked from the inside.
Lauren instantly crouched down and, through the space below the door, peeked into the booth, where she saw a pair of black shoes inside.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmLetting out another maniacal laugh, Lauren swung the knife in and said, “Found you!" The owner of the black shoes
frantically moved back, startled by the knife Lauren swung the knife again, but this time, she aimed at the door. Again and again, she stabbed the door with the knife like a mad woman.
"Wait!" Raegan's trembling voice finally came from within. "What do you want? You're making a mistake. Do you want to go to jail?" Once again, Lauren let out a bone- chilling laugh. Then, she spat, "My face and my body are completely ruined! Do you think I'm afraid of going to jail?" After a pause, Raegan's firm voice came from inside the booth. "You had set me up first, remember? Besides, I'm not the one who ruined your face or your body. You should find the person responsible for it."
Lauren stared at the knife marks at the door with her chin tucked toward her neck and a mad glint in her eyes. "The person responsible for my suffering is Mitchel!" Hearing this, Raegan felt a twinge of surprise. She couldn't accept that Mitchel was capable of such a thing.
"Back then, Mitchel didn't completely push you into the fire, right?" she ventured.
"He left me an escape route that was worse than that," Lauren spat. "I only had two choices. Either walk into the fire or go to the police station. What other choice did I have?" Her eyes were full of resentment.
Clenching her teeth, Lauren continued, ‘I was an esteemed lady of Ardlens, leading a life envied by all. How could I possibly end up in jail? Even death would have been better!"
Just recalling the scene filled her with newfound fury, causing her to stab the door again. "It's all because of you, you bitch! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Until Mitchel met you, he was never so heartless toward me!" As she spoke, Lauren crazily stabbed the door over and over again, filling Raegan's heart with fear.
Raegan managed to convince Lauren, “Lauren, didn't you end up like this because of your own choices? You can't blame anyone else! Having the waiter doctor my drink won't hold you behind bars forever. Even if you turn yourself in, you won't be sentenced for long.
You were given a chance, but you chose the wrong path, allowing your face and body to be ruined. Who can you blame but yourself?" However, Raegan's words did not
sound like consolation to Lauren Rather, they hit Lauren's sore spots one by one, driving her further to the verge of insanity.
With hatred in her eyes, Lauren shouted, "I blame you! It's all your fault! My life was great before you appeared. Mitchel loved and spoiled me. It's all because of you that I lost everything!" Lauren stared at the door with loathing, as if she was staring right at Raegan's face, and continued, "You have to die. You should have followed your damn grandmother and that infant to their graves!" From the other side of the door came Raegan's icy voice. "Lauren, are you the one behind the deaths of my grandmother and child?"