Riccardo POV:We were now sitting in the backseat of a Maybach car, heading towards my mansion. I instructed Dome to be the driver. Cassie was sitting on my left pushing her body close to the car door, putting a clear distance between us. She didn't want to look at me.After the police officers took my side and advised her to follow me back home, she had no choice but to concur. So, here we were, having a silent argument inside this car.She was no longer covered with Dome's suit. It was silly but I felt jealous over the fact that Dome gave her his suit to cover her revealing clothes, a sleeping gown to be exact. So, I took off Dome's suit and gave it back to the bodyguard and now Cassie was wearing my suit instead. Trust me, I wished I was the suit.I tried to circle my arm around her shoulders. But she pushed me away hatefully as soon as my hand tried to reach her. Clearly, she was still pissed off over what happened tonight. Understandable, of course. She just found out that I had
Cassandra POV:Had you ever felt like you'd been kidnapped? Because that was how I felt right now. I was taken away from my home without my will and now I needed to survive this strange mansion that Ricky claimed was haunted.Okay, that was not even the worst part. Let just went back to the time after the bomb prank incident, right after the police officers took his side and advised me to just live in his house for the safety of the other tenants of Rosette Apartment.During the incident, I ran to safety with only a sleeping gown on my body and house slippers on my feet. Nothing was with me other than that. So, after the commotion subsided, I wanted to go up back to my apartment unit. But Ricky disallowed me, saying it was his house technically because he was the dominant owner according to the house ownership agreement I signed before. I told him I needed my stuff up there, at least my phone and my purse. So, he asked me where I put those. I said they were in my handbag. Then, he jus
Cassandra POV:Ricky left the bedroom. The lights were still on but I was too lazy to get up and turned them off. I closed my eyes trying to get some sleep. But my mind didn't want to shut up. There were these hundreds of questions hovering over my head and they were all about Ricky and that Carina woman."Aaissshh!!" I grumbled as I rose to a sitting position. There was an antic clock hanging on the wall and I checked the time. It was twenty minutes before eleven."Where the hell did he need to go this late?" I wondered. Did he meet Carina? No, I hated having this kind of thought. Did he though? Suddenly, I could feel some kind of jealousy surging over my entire soul. I didn't want Ricky to meet Carina. What if they met and then went intimate again?I took a pillow and threw it on the floor. I guessed that was the only way I could vent my frustration. Then I walked to the bedroom door and tried to come out. I only opened it for a tiny peek, but I noticed Ernesto and Verona gazed up a
Cassandra POV:"Ricky... no..."I think there was a problem with Ricky. He was obviously someone who couldn't accept rejection. I was quite sure that last night I said no to him. But here I was this morning, sitting in bed, totally naked and only covered with a comforter. Ricky was nowhere to be found. He probably had gone to the company.My sleeping gown was on the floor, torn into pieces. Clear proof of how rough and violent Ricky was last night. Maybe his soul was a beast. The part between my thighs was still throbbing. I didn't know what his problem was last night. The last two lovemaking we had before were not this painful. Did he try to pull some kind of revenge on me?I pondered alone without even bothering to check the time. I knew it was still early but I had no mood to leave bed. I didn't have any clothes to wear anyway. Ricky probably didn't even think about that. How inconsiderate.It was just seconds that I judged him but the man suddenly appeared and entered the bedroom
Cassandra POV: "Are you sure he won't make me pay for these later?" I asked Verona for confirmation. The maid seemed hesitant but she still nodded. Even Ernesto and all the boutique owners nodded along with her. "If he does, I'm going to snap his dick into two," I said unthinkingly. Those words came out of my mouth pretty naturally like when you cursed someone you resent. But the rest took it literally. Now everyone stared at me with their eyes widened in shock. "I'm just kidding," I tried to brush away their worries with a laugh. They really thought I would do something like that to Ricky? That was fairly impossible. Ricky was obviously stronger than me. It would be really easy for him to avoid any attack from me. At last, I ended up just choosing some clothes from the boutique owners' collections. Verona took all of them upstairs to be put inside the wardrobe. I meant to go out after and had a thought about changing my clothes to a new ones. But as I stared at my reflection thro
Riccardo POV: I was in a meeting when I received a call from Cassandra. She got mad that I changed her apartment door lock without her permission. I didn't usually accept insults from anyone. So, when Cassie called me an arsehole on the phone, I had to endure the agony of suppressing my anger inside, especially when I was in front of twenty employees of RX Corp right now. This woman was a bit ungrateful sometimes. Ernesto informed me how she picked a few new clothes this morning at the mansion. Instead of thanking me for buying her new clothes, she cursed at me. I didn't want the argument to be long so I just told her to give the phone to Dome. Certainly, I had given the new apartment keycard to Dome. The bodyguard also knew the password to the door lock. But I didn't want Cassie to know it or have the keycard by herself or else she might return to live there again. It was not safe. Besides, I intended to resell the building later. I thought the issue was settled but then about an
Riccardo POV:The next morning, I took a day off from the office. Since I didn't go to work, Cassie did the same too. Surely after spending ten million dollars of my money yesterday, I did take something in return from Cassie. The lovemaking last night was so intense that she ended up glaring at me the whole time today.We were hanging out by the pool at the back of the mansion. Cassie was wearing a turquoise bikini she bought yesterday at the mall, having a sunbath while relaxing on a lounge chair. I called Sergio to come. I needed someone to hang out with and also to vent my frustration from yesterday."Wine right in the morning?" Sergio joshed. We were sitting at a patio table on one side of the pool, staring at Cassie from afar. She was on the other side of the pool. When she noticed our stares, she shot me an icy glare."She's such a headache," I replied slowly, pulling down my gaze, avoiding looking at that woman."I thought you said you could handle her," Sergio taunted me ligh
Cassandra POV:Marry him? He must be crazy enough to bring up that topic after just meeting me again like a week ago. As he said previously, seven years was a very long time. I was sure he was not the same Ricky as the one that became my boyfriend during college. And now he simply proposed to me casually at a dining table during lunch? He ruined my appetite.Honestly, it was not that I didn't want it. Who would be dumb enough to reject someone like Ricky? Certainly, not me. I got a deadly prank from his ex. That was enough proof that he was such a catch. His ex dared to go to that extent of trying to kill me, surely I won't just let Ricky go after getting such a threat. He was right. I won't be safe without him. But that was actually the big downside.If he make that proposal seven years ago, I would never hesitate to say yes. I would agree right away and happy ending for us. But now? I didn't even know him anymore. The Ricky now was different. I could sense something about him that I