Tristan was on the way back to the villa when Laura called him and said Kate went out after a call and had not come back yet. Tristan’s scalp jumped, and he called Kate, but the phone did not ring.

His first reaction was that the little thing was playing a new trick, but the next moment he called his secretary to check Kate’s call record. He had a bad presentiment.

In a private room of the club, Jessie leaned on a couch. There were bottles and a big bowl of fruit salad on the table.

On the TV screen, Celine Dion was singing, “When I was young, I never...