RANLEIGH“If you’re going to lie, Your Excellency, please try controlling your expression. You're making it obvious that you are still head-over-heels with the lady,” I said. I scratched my head and laughed awkwardly. “You often wear a blank expression but that hard stoic face becomes soft every time you’ll mention her name. You’re being obvious, Sir,” I added.Bryce furrowed his brows. “What happened to Mr. Vergara? Why are you calling me more formally now?” he asked, totally ignoring what I just said.I cleared my throat and avoided his eyes. I will never admit that I am starting to draw a line between us. I knew that Bryce would ask me why and I don’t know how to dodge that question without telling him the truth. And hell! I will never admit that I am attracted to him and if he continues being nice to me, I’m afraid that I might really end up falling in love with him. I thought that he was an awful person based on how he acted the first time we met and the second until the third. Th
RANLEIGH“Where the fuck are you?” I moved my phone away from my ears and frowned. “Your voice is so fucking loud, Dior,” I cursed between my breath. “Fuck you!” she shouted. I laughed when I imagined her rolling her eyes. “I came to your company to visit and check on you and guess what?” she asked. “You weren’t there, Leigh! And Gab? He looked like a pup who just got abandoned,” Dior shouted dramatically. “You heartless woman, where did you go and why did you resign? Was it true that you are engaged with someone? Who’s the fucking guy? Is he hot?” I shook my head and ended the call. She’s too loud. She needs to calm down while I need peace of mind. I took a deep breath before looking around my room and I couldn’t help but notice that the room is bigger than the one at the previous house. The whole room is the size of my family’s apartment. It was divided into four rooms. The things are also completed from the receiving area inside my room mainly for the visitors, to the counter an
RANLEIGH“The lady needs to know the basic etiquettes so the Marquess’ name won’t be put in jeopardy,” a maid whispered. I slightly opened my eyes and looked at her. She was combing her hair gently with a soft expression.The other maid groaned in annoyance. She was more hostile than the first. “Why do I have to serve such a woman? My parents didn’t raise me for this!” she yelledI slowly opened my eyes and stared at the two. They were very well dressed for a maid and elegance could be seen from the way they talked. I grinned. I wished to see more of these noble’s distorted faces after seeing a commoner reign higher than them. A commoner who they looked down could fly higher than they ever could. It would be fantastic to see their disappointed and enraged faces. But it would be more fantastic to see my grandmother’s face filled with rage. I got up and stretched my arms. A good sunny morning for me should be a hell to the two ladies.I smiled as I walked towards the two. It is really
THIRD PERSON POV“Don’t you feel sorry for Lady Ranleigh at all, Bryce?” Sheldon asked. Bryce tilted his head and chuckled. “Why would I?” he asked while his eyes were still on his phone.Sheldon sighed and looked outside the window. Yeah, why would he? It was Sheldon who slapped Ranleigh’s face under Bryce’s command. Every time Sheldon recall Ranleigh’s empty eyes after that incident was making him regretful. It is ridiculous to regret something that you intended to do but he is still ashamed of their actions. And he knows that it is wrong to act based on what they saw without knowing the backstory. They had the time to ask what happened but they didn’t. And now, it is making him feel guilty. “We’ve wronged her, Bryce.”“She should have stood up for herself if she wanted. It’s her fault that she didn’t try explaining,” Bryce coldly retorted. “I have no ground for a conscience that wasn’t mine to keep in the first place, Sheldon. You know that I had long ago forgotten how to be compun
I turned around and looked at myself in the mirror. I am wearing a backless dress and it exposed the rose tats on my back. The scars aren’t that visible either as it was being hidden under the tats’ ink but even if it was exposed, I don't really care. I didn’t dress to gain the audiences’ approval anyway and none of their opinions are valid. No matter what they say, I look gorgeous.And even so, why the fuck do I even have to care about their opinion when all they do was just gossip with everybody’s life? Couldn’t they just fuck off and shut up and just fix themselves first instead of pointing out what’s wrong with other people? They are no saints and none of them are perfect so what’s the deal about us being this flawed?“My lady.”I looked at Xianre as she tiptoed and leaned her head closer to mine. I saw her blinking her green eyes. “Lady Hanzel is outside with Sir Bryce.”The eldest young lady of the Green. I wonder what she is doing at a man’s house that has a lover? Does she in
“You should enjoy the night, Leigh!” Xianre shouted. I bobbed my head, trying to match her enthusiasm. Though I could tell that she knew I was faking it. She just couldn’t say it out loud.I looked around the crowd trying to pinpoint where that person who kept on staring at me was. Crowd. I was never upset being in a crowd before. Not even once in my life did I choose to sit and grumble in one corner at a bar but I can say that this time is different. Ever since I entered the bar, I could feel a pair of eyes staring at me as if they were monitoring me. As it is, they are calculating my every move. I felt like I was being watched from a corner and it’s not making me any comfortable. Though I shouldn’t let Xianre worry about me this time. She should enjoy the night as much as she can. I brushed my hair and looked at Xianre who was staring at me. “I’m fine here. Go on and enjoy the night, Xian, I don’t mind,” I declared. Xianre looked at me weirdly as if she sensed something. I smile
His men called him Ace and I only know one person who uses that name in the underworld. That freaking mafia. There’s no doubt that this fucking man here is the man who I shared a hot night with years ago, the man who I should never met again — the mafia gang’s godfather. Ace, the mafia lord. Fuck! I should have never gone back to this bar!Ace stared at me as he caressed my cheeks gently. “Why not take off your mask and kiss me?” he asked playfully. I immediately pushed him away. “Enough of this already!” I shoved his hands off. “You’ll find someone else, someone better, Sir! Someone who could give you the same affection!”Ace chuckled. “I don’t think so," he retorted. “I’ve been running around this country, Mien, and I never found someone better than you,” he declared. “And I don’t want anybody else if they aren’t you.”Look who’s talking nonsense. I grind my teeth in frustration. “I’m getting married!”“I don’t fucking care.” He grabbed my hand and even though he was being gentle
“That’s enough. If you don’t want Leigh, then send her back to her home. I’ll be the one to pay her grandfather’s debt,” Ace declared.I coughed and looked at Ace. That really caught me off-guard and I didn’t expect him to say that. I thought that he’s much worse than Bryce, but to my surprise, I was wrong. Not that he is any better but if I’ll compare him to his brother, I could say that he’s not that bad.“That won’t do, Ace. She already signed the contract,” Bryce answered. That made me curse him in my mind. Tsk! Bryce, if you’ll only agree to what Ace said, I could be finally free and the two of you will have your way with Lady Green. I won’t be a hindrance with your affairs anymore. Argh! Seriously?! Why couldn’t you just let me go?! “And a while back, she was almost caught by the Oardina Gang. It was a good thing that the hired killer, Mien, caught the man before it harmed Ranleigh.”‘It.’ I laughed at the thought that they see those people as a thing and not a person. “She’s