Ace thought Joanna was trying to trick him so she did not take her warning seriously.
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his ankle.
Looking down, he saw a black snake spitting out its bright red tongue, looking at him menacingly. The snake was about two fingers wide.
"Crap!"
Ace frowned. He could clearly feel the muscles around his ankle becoming numb. He could hardly stand anymore.
He quickly moved Joanna behind him to protect her and said, "I'll lure it away. You look for a chance to escape!"
"Did it bite you?"
Joanna clenched her fists and said in a tense voice, "The snake has a silver ring around its neck and lives in a humid place, so it should be highly venomous. Stop moving so that the venom won't spread so fast!"
"Shut up if you want to live!"
Joanna's voice was so loud that it was giving him a headache.
In his opinion, all Joanna's voice would do was anger the cold-blooded animal in front of them.
He had no experience in handling snakes, but under the tense situation, the snake would likely attack them again, so he had to do something!
Ace carefully took out his phone and turned slightly towards Joanna who was standing behind him. "Get ready. When I count to three, run as hard as you can!"
Joanna sighed helplessly and said, "There's no need. It'll go away soon."
Based on her past experience, this snake was not actually aggressive. Moreover, it had limited vision and could only sense rapidly moving objects, so the safest thing to do was to stay still.
After the snake confirmed that they were not a threat, it would go away.
However, it was clear that Mr. Ace Moran had his own unique insight and did not believe her.
"One, two, three- RUN!"
As Ace finished counting to three, he turned on the flashlight on his phone and shook it in front of the snake, trying to divert the snake's attention so that Joanna would have an opportunity to escape.
Joanna slammed her hand on her forehead and said, "Oh no, oh no, it's over!"
The black snake was instantly angered. It struck continuously in the direction of the light like a chicken pecking at grain, doing everything it could to bite them.
"You, out of the way!"
In the moment of crisis, Joanna grabbed Ace's arm and pulled him aside.
Then, a silver gleam flashed across the air. A silver dart pierced into the snake's neck, severing the snake in two and killing it on the spot!
Everything happened so fast that Ace did not see what happened clearly. He could only feel his head becoming increasingly heavy and his vision becoming increasingly blurry.
Joanna calmly walked forward, picked up both parts of the broken snake corpse and stuffed them into a bag so that the snake's venom serum could be extracted from them.
She turned to Ace and said, "You're poisoned. We need to get you to a hospital to cleanse out the venom as soon as possible!"
Ace did not respond. His tall body shakily approached Joanna, his eyes locked onto her.
Joanna thought his eyes looked strange, so she kindly asked, "Can you walk? Do you need my help?"
"I need it!"
Ace's voice was low and deep. Like a towering mountain, he trapped Joanna firmly between himself and the wall.
His long, strong fingers forcefully raised Joanna's chin. A strong possessive desire could be seen in the depth of his eyes. "You're my wife, of course I need you!"
"Ace, there's something wrong with you. What are you doing?"
Joanna leaned against the wall, not daring to move.
Ace was behaving abnormally!
She suddenly remembered that the venom of the black snake with silver ring not only attacked its victim's internal organs, it could also cause a hallucination and aphrodisiac effect.
The more emotional the person being bitten was, the more severe the effect!
"You're a beautiful woman, but you might as well be blind. That Blackwood boy is no match for me in anything except being a few years younger."
Under the influence of the snake venom, Ace had no filter.
He rubbed her bright red lips with his fingers like he was rubbing the petals of a rose, and then, driven by desire, moved in and covered them with his own lips…
"Mhh…"
The man's lips were hot like volcanic rock.
Joanna's mind went blank. She simply let him get the best of her as if her body had been paralyzed.
This was not the first time he had kissed her, but it was the first time he was doing it so passionately and enthusiastically.
So much so that she found herself immersed in the kiss and could not help responding…
While getting lost in the kiss, Joanna opened her eyes and took a peek to see what kind of expression Ace had when he was kissing her.
Ace's eyes were tightly closed. His slightly curled long eyelashes and his pronounced facial features were truly a work of art.
His deep eyes, his high nose bridge, his perfect jawline, his thin and sexy lips… If looks could kill, his face would be a weapon of mass destruction!
Three years ago, she was enthralled by this handsome face.
Three years later, she found that she still had no resistance to it!
"Ahem!"
In the darkness, someone coughed awkwardly.
"Boss, are you done kissing? We've been here for a while now."
Liam Blackwood, with a tinge of disappointment in his voice, greeted her.
"Crap!"
Joanna was flustered. She panicked and pushed Ace away, hard.
Ace had become too emotional, so the venom had spread quickly in his body. By now, he was already barely conscious. He fell to the ground with a thud.
"Mr. Moran!"
assistant of Joe Brown, quickly rushed forward to help. The look of horror on his face was as if he had seen the sky collapse.
'Oh my god, this is Ace Moran, the CEO of Moran Group. If anything happens to him because of Miss Brown's reckless behavior, the entire Brown family will pay for it!'
"He has been poisoned by a snake. Get him to a hospital immediately!"
Joanna had no time to put on the show she had planned for Joe's assistant anymore. Right now, she only wanted Ace to be safe.
At the hospital.
Due to the timely treatment and because they had the venomous snake's serum, Ace's life was no longer in danger, although he was still unconscious.
"Thank goodness he's safe!"
Joanna heaved a sigh of relief. Her thin body slid down the wall of the corridor.
Liam, with his hands in his pockets, quietly looked at her. His normally bright and sunny face was currently bleak and gloomy. He could not hold it in anymore.
"Boss, don't you think you should be more worried about yourself? Don't you show your future ex- husband too much concern?"
Joanna's voice was rational and indifferent. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I'm only saving myself and I don't want to owe him any favors."
Of course, the reason he was bitten by the venomous snake was because he tried to do too much and ended up provoking the snake, but still…
"You're still lying to yourself!"
Liam sighed and confronted her, "Did you also kiss him that hard earlier to repay him for saving your life?"
"Moreover… that was so brutal of you, boss. Ace Moran had already been poisoned, but you still kissed him so intensely. I'm not sure which one of you is the beast now!"
"You stinky brat! Are you looking for a beating?!"
Joanna's face turned bright red. She chopped Liam's head with her palm.
She could not help replaying the scene of her kiss with Ace in her mind.
She was indeed… a bit too "ferocious". As if she was a thirsty person who found water.
Tsk tsk, how sinful!
Liam stopped teasing her. He looked at Joanna with deep eyes and strong emotions and said seriously, "I can see that you haven't completely let go of him yet. In that case, have you ever considered telling him your secret to see what he thinks?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Joanna reproached Liam with a stern look. "It's over between Ace and I. What happened earlier was because… I was bewitched by his beauty. I'll try my best to control myself in the future and not make that kind of mistake again."
"Try your best?"
Liam playfully raised his eyebrows.
The implication was that it would happen again in the future.
Well, whatever. He knew very well what kind of person his boss was.
He could not be bothered exposing her lie.
Right then, a group of people appeared at the other end of the corridor and came towards them.