Olive’s POV~I was cleaning my room. It was a small room but furnished beautifully and placed in the corridor that led to the kitchen. Thinking about my school and the courses I missed pricked my nerves.A week has p*ssed since our last misty encounter in the study room. Why misty? Because I felt changes in his expression the moment I mentioned he deserved the best.He didn’t give an affirmation, so I didn’t have any clue whether would he permit me to help him or not? Besides, he left afterward and didn’t come back.Last night, I received a text message from my father. He apologized for disturbing me as long as I warned them not to contact me and that we must sever our ties. I was sure he was curious about why I should do that to him.He told me that my university had called him multiple times and he had to visit the supervisor.I didn’t respond to his message because he had settled everything and asked them to give me a month of leave. I was sure he had to pay an amount. But I wanted
Edward’s POVMy hand moved to her smoothly, instinctively. I wanted to caress her head. She smelled good, as though lavender. I pushed the stray strands off her beautiful face. Suddenly, John’s face appeared in my mind to scatter and burn the tiny sympathy.Walking out, I faced Huxley’s twinkling eyes. Was he excited to hear something?We strode out, and I saw the new housekeeper they hired. This woman was in her early thirties and seemed humble. I could not bear bully wenches around Elenore. Only I could do whatever I wanted to her.“You must be Mira! How was her behavior in the past few days?”She smiled gently, “She is hardworking, and after finishing her chores, she studies very hard. She behaved very well.”I went to my room after hearing that, and Huxley closed the door behind us.“I was worried about you. Did you get hurt?”“Not a serious one. Just a scratch.”He grabbed my leather jacket when his eyes fell on my bandaged arm.“Are you sure?”“Yeah, we settled the chaos, but th
Olive’s POV~Getting into the car, Edward kept his distance away from me, and I took a deep breath. I felt pleased that he didn’t commit something wrong to irritate me in front of the driver.“Are you studying a lot lately?”He asked suddenly.“How do you know?”“Crows told me!”He smirked.“I see. Have you been busy?”“I have. Did you miss me?”Of course not! I should have said that, but it consumed so much strength and bravery that it left me with not a single drop!“Possibly you have missed him!”I averted my head to glance at him.“Who?”“John! You must be happy about this reunion!”“I don’t like him.”He didn’t seem to believe me and I didn’t explain further. He might want to extract information about the brother he hated, but I knew nothing about Johnathan, quite nothing.After two hours, we arrived downtown and his driver drove to a hill. I could swear that from that zone, you could view the entire city.As soon as we got out of the car, a chill embraced me. Hugging my arms, I
Edward’s POV~Silence invaded the dining hall. My eyes rolled to Grandfather, but he was gazing at John.“Johnathan? Is there anything you must explain?”Everyone’s attention was drawn to John, who had forgotten all about his pain.“Grandfather, I didn’t get what you meant. What business can I have with my sister-in-law?”This *ssh*le! I saw how he had been looking at Elenore. I was sick of them interacting right across my sight.“Did you hurt her?”Mr. Johnson asked again.“Of course not! I bumped into her accidentally!”He shook his head and turned to Elenore. “Forgive us, daughter. My sons like to fool around.”He frowned and faced me. The poor man had no idea how nasty these two were.“Don’t bother this daughter with someone else’s mistake. I hate your obsession.”“Don’t mind me, please.” I babbled, as I did not want him to suffer more than this.My grandfather pouted, spun around, and trailed off. “Take my daughter to the farm and pick some strawberries for her. I planted them.”
Olive’s POV~“You smell so good, baby!”“Get off me, *ssh*le.”It agitated my whole body in rage when Jonathan’s voice rang in my head. Pushing him away as hard as I could manage, my mind just warned me to run.Edward must have heard that and judging by the scene, I wasn’t even sure how to explain it to him.His indignant expression had enough to say what he contemplated. My heart was about to jump out of my mouth while running in a corridor and finding a maid.“Sorry, where is the room I was supposed to see my husband?”I asked, gasping and looking back to see if Edward was after me.“That one at the end of the corridor.”I rushed to the door and sneaked inside the room.The maid I went outside with should have told me where to wait for Edward, but she took off to pack the strawberries and I forgot to ask.We were about to go home but Johnathan came out of the blue. That reek rat. He descended upon my path like a predator.Elenore was careful to find a jerk just like herself and stuc
Olive’s POV~A destructive pain and irritation skittered between my legs, right in my intimate part, and I felt the flesh ripped apart.My eyes snapped open. I glanced at the ceiling.“This is not where I’m supposed to be!”It was the orphanage’s outworn building. The place was in the countryside near our city.I gasped and strived to sit, but I couldn’t. My body was scorching, my stomach twitched, and it pinned me to the worn-out bed.I wore a white nightgown and sweat drenched my body, glued the dress on my body.Drawing my palm on my forehead, I looked at it. Was I pulled out of a pool?Sitting straight with so much effort, I took in the surroundings, only to jump out of the creaking bed in terror.“What the h*ll am I doing here?”I was in the orphanage, and suddenly the groaning iron door ran wide, and two girls that I knew very well rushed inside.“We received a few aids this year.”My friend, Gia! We were sharing the same bed in this room. A year before, one of the room's walls
Edward’s POV.When I hung up on Kit’s call, I turned around to question the girl, but she fell unconscious.“h*ll, no! Hey!”I didn’t know her name.Approaching her, I discovered beads of sweat on her face. She fainted already, and it proved to me no one had touched her before.Wearing my shirt and pulling up my pants, I yelled, “Huxley!”Yanking the door open, I rushed out. My mind was blowing and progressing. What I just heard was impossible to digest.I felt my knees losing strength, and my heart lost the correct function of pumping blood.My vision blurred when I entered the corridor and saw Huxley running towards me.“Edward!”I could hear his voice, but it soon silenced when I asked him to call a doctor. It was just the whistle in my head again.After an hour, I was sitting by her side in my bedroom. My personal physician attended to her and checked up on everything I asked, step by step.“Was she truly a virgin?”The doctor wore a grim face. “Didn’t you know that?”I directed m
Edward’s POV~I parked the car near the shore for a while. The sun was rising and warm rays expanded along the water surface.Coming here with my mother was something else, but she was taken away from me, and my soul turned cold like this air.Until I saw this girl’s eyes. I did not have a prospect before about how one can melt the ice in my heart. Should I call it seduction? Or fate? But her manner wasn’t even close to seducing someone. She was just too real, too much for someone like John.And it stung my brain. How could such a person end up like this? Did she love her sister so much to sacrifice herself or did they delude her?I could not lie to myself. This girl attracted and enticed me. And I couldn’t deny that I was interested in her while she didn’t even attempt to catch my attention. Somehow, she tried to escape from me.If she was reluctant, why did she allow them to replace her?Could it be that she liked me?The icy breeze burned my cheeks, and I felt butterflies in my sto