LOGINThe school belle was always cold and aloof, but I was the only one who'd ever caught her eye. Then the new transfer student showed up. He was always engineering ways to run into her, showing off right in front of her. Everyone said a newcomer could never replacethe person who had grown up beside her. Whatever games the transfer student played, they were bound to be a waste of time. Until the school belle's family enemy slipped onto campus and took the transfer student hostage. She lost every last bit of composure and threw herself in front of him, taking the blade meant for him instead. Even with her life hanging by a thread, all she could do was touch his face and murmur, "As long as you're safe..." I stood outside the crowd, the object of everyone's mockery and scorn. Lying on her hospital bed, with tubes running through her body, she still managed to say to me, "I don't want to owe him anything. Leave him alone." I let out a quiet, humorless laugh. Whatever love and hatred the two of you share, I won't stand here being an eyesore any longer. From the moment her enemy chose the transfer student as the leverage to threaten her, I understood exactly how little I mattered. So be it. I'm done.
View MoreVivian looked at me and said, "Mike, for the sake of what we used to have, please help me."Leon is abusive. My arms and thighs are covered in cuts and bruises. I don't want to be with him anymore. Please, save me!"Leon clamped a hand over her mouth and dragged her away, two long wet streaks trailing across the ground behind her.I watched it all happen with cold indifference and let him take her away.…Not long after, I finished wrapping everything up and arrived abroad.The moment I saw Judy Vandell, I recognized her as my mother.Years of illness had clearly taken their toll on her; there was a shadow behind her eyes that never quite lifted. But even so, it was easy to see she was a kind, loving mother at heart.The instant she saw me, Judy pressed a hand to her mouth, tears spilling over, and pulled me into her arms the very next second.For the first time in all these years, I finally felt it: a mother's love was real.Even with an ocean between us, she'd never once st
"Of course."After a moment, Kitty added, "Actually, when I first came looking for you, it wasn't only because I was worried about your mom."There was another reason too. We've had a match arranged between our families since we were kids."But back then, I didn't want to marry someone I didn't even know, so I figured I'd find you myself first and pay you off to make the whole thing go away."I never expected things would spiral out of my control, feelings included."That was another blunt confession from Kitty, and it caught me completely off guard.She shrugged and dropped her gaze, looking a little down.Without thinking, I said, "You don't have to feel bad about it. I'll marry you."The second the words left my mouth, she lit right back up, her eyes going wide as she looked at me seriously."Really?""Of course. A promise is a promise," I told her. "Kitty, thank you for coming into my life. I like you too."…I'd known for a while that everything Vivian had been doing w
Every time Kitty and I went anywhere together, Vivian would appear out of nowhere and invent one excuse after another to talk to me.That wasn't all. Every morning when I got to the classroom, someone had already filled the cup on my desk with water. On cleaning duty days, Vivian volunteered to move my desk for me. Even at lunch, she'd show up with food made by the Saunders family's staff and insist on treating me.During gym class, when the sun beat down hard on the field, she pulled out sunscreen to put on me and held an umbrella over my head the whole time.The moment I so much as frowned, she'd immediately fall silent, not saying another word, as if terrified I might come to hate her.Within a single day, the news that the school belle had turned into my personal lapdog had spread across the entire campus.A few people didn't believe it, until that afternoon, when I went to the broadcast room to do the announcements and Vivian burst straight in.She didn't notice the microp
Leon's whole body went rigid.Walter shoved him back into the crowd and barked an order for everyone to seize me and Kitty.That was when a deafening roar tore through the sky.Everyone looked up to find dozens of helicopters circling overhead. Half of them bore the Mercer family's emblem. The other half carried the crest of the Vandells, the wealthiest family in the capital.One of Kitty's bodyguards bowed respectfully. "Miss, Mrs. Mercer and Ms. Vandell are both worried for your safety. They've sent the world's finest bodyguards to protect you both."They ask that you bring Ms. Vandell's son, Mike, home as soon as possible."For a moment, everyone went dead silent.Walter muttered under his breath, "That's not possible. That can't be possible..."Leon's jaw dropped. "The Mercers' eldest daughter? Kitty Mercer? She's actually with a piece of trash like him?"I frowned. "Hit him."The Vandell bodyguards, fresh off the helicopters, closed the distance in a few strides, hauled












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