From beginning to end, Tang Changsheng had watched the spectacle. He had even heard every word Quintina and Aubrey had exchanged. He sipped his drink at leisure, legs crossed as he sat on the sofa enjoying the farce.
But what happened next gradually went beyond anything Tang Changsheng had expected.
"Alina, what are you doing?" Aubrey cried.
Alina let out a Beast-like growl from deep in her throat. Then she sank her teeth into Aubrey's shoulder.
Aubrey screamed in agony. The waiters rushed in from all sides, fumbling to pull them apart.
But Alina had become astonishingly strong, and her bite held fast. No matter how they tried, they could not separate them.
Only Aubrey's shrill, distorted screams rang out, chilling everyone to the bone.
By then, Tang Changsheng had begun to sense that something was wrong.
How could the drug be this overpowering?
"Roar..."
One waiter saw Aubrey's eyes rolling back, as though he might pass out from the pain at any moment. His face changed, and he grabbed a wine bottle and smashed it against the back of Alina's head.
It did not knock Alina unconscious. Instead, she rose from where she had been pinning Aubrey down, her teeth still buried in his shoulder.
Blood covered Alina's mouth. Even her pupils seemed to have narrowed into faint vertical slits.
That tiny change made her seem terrifyingly savage and uncanny.
The waiter she stared at trembled. Feeling as though a wild Beast had fixed its gaze on him, he kept backing away.
But Alina had already lunged. Like a Beast, she clamped her teeth around the waiter's throat.
"Quick, help Jimmy..." The other waiters descended into chaos as they rushed to save him.
By the time they managed to pull Alina away, Jimmy's windpipe had been bitten through. Blood