Harriet’s POV I woke up feeling a tingling pain in my neck. As I forced my heavy eyes opened, their dropped shut several times before the image of my surroundings went clear. ‘I am still inside the airplane.’ As far as I can remember, I am sitting on the seat between Cassius and Zion. Which means, if I fell asleep and found myself leaning my head onto my right sight, then I am leaning onto someone’s else shoulder and not by the window. ‘Who is it again?!’ Trying to regain my memory, Cassius’ image appeared inside my mind. ‘Oh my god. I am leaning to Cassius’ shoulder right now!’ Our present positions were almost the last that I could hope to happen. Grave embarrassment seized upon me, and the chill of shame made my head shut down above me like a pile of cloud. I felt the pounding of my heart, which wasn’t cause by being overwhelm but rather because of huge disgrace to myself. My brain is in the mess, like it sat on a chair without seat-belt and the roller coaster ride start
Sherly’s face lost its color the moment she heard that the first grandson of the chairman will return home. Worst, she heard it late at the day Cassius will return. The greedy madam of the household went on a run to meet her husband.“Is it true? That the kid will come?” she asked to Finn.With hands behind him, Finn stands by the window. He could not answer his wife, as he also could not believe if the news he heard is true.‘Cassius will come?’ he asked himself.Before Cassius went to New York, Sorren told Finn that there’s no way the kid will come back again. He would never forget that since it is also the time when his father treated him so coldly. As Cassius left their side, Sorren’s heart for Finn also went away.Finn doesn’t know why his father hated him so much, that he ‘s unable to inherit the power he’s seeking even after a long time. If Zion will be the next heir of the company, Finn will feel awful. What’s more if the chairman gave the position to his older brother’s son?
Zion, Cassius and Harriet have ceased their feet as soon as they saw Finn, Sherly and Madell waiting for them near the entrance. Sherly is wearing an angel mask to conceal her emotions for her unwanted nephew. Finn stared Cassius apathetically after greeting him, while Madell could not hide her astonishment towards her handsome cousin. She was so thunderstruck at Cassius’ beauty that Madell thinks she found the most gorgeous man in the world. Majority in this place shows great anticipation towards Cassius, except Finn, Sherly and Zion. But how about Cassius himself? His jet black her, tall nose, gray eyes, think lips, clenched jaw, and each particular hair of his skin, expressed intense disgust. Still, Cassius tried his best to maintain his expression as he stepped closer to Harriet. Heart pounded so hard. Just seeing the face of Finn and Sherly whom disgusted him so much, made him feel intense loathing. Now it is scarcely impossible to convey the extraordinary disgust which the
The panic attack that Cassius had a while ago stayed vividly in Harriet’s mind. It is the same reaction she saw when they got trapped under the collapsed building. Cassius did not see a large portion of water. So what made him panicked? ‘It is his own relatives,’ Harriet answered the mystery in her head. The reason why Cassius does not want to go home is because he despise the Fabroa family; the family Harriet vowed to take a revenge. Slowly, Harriet stared at the man who’s sitting beside her on the same bench. When Cassius calmed, they went to the mansion’s back garden stayed under the shade for a long time. Harriet dared not to speak. She knows that during at this moment, the best comfort that she can offer is her presence and not a bunch of good words. She looked around, watching the lovely sights of the the garden that are truly a view to behold. There is color everywhere – bright color, subtle color – pinks, reds, yellows, oranges, purples, greens. As the wind blew, the f
“Harriet!”Harriet and Cassius tilted their heads. They saw a woman approaching their side with an angelic smile on her innocent face.As soon as Harriet saw Reese, her hands around Cassius have tightened. Cassius felt the sudden rage. He looked at her hands and to Harriet’s sharp eyes which were fixed to the coming lady.“I didn’t know that you will go back home now!” Reese gasped then she deliberately stared alternately at Cassius and their hands. “But… who is this man you’re holding?”Harriet quickly let go of Cassius hand. She cannot let Reese create a malicious rumor about her and Cassius.“R-Reese,” Harriet murmured. “Where did you go from?”“Ohhh, w-well…” Reese scratched her nape awkwardly.She cannot let Harriet finds out that she planned on meeting her father. Not yet.‘I still cannot decide whether I’ll say the truth or not,’ Reese told to herself.Reese smiled at Harriet and changed the topic.“Hey! That is not important!”She grabbed Harriet’s hands and held it tightly. A
“You followed Harriet on the way to New York?” Finn asked his son, Zion.The members of Fabroa family were seated together inside Finn’s room. They gathered here after meeting Cassius, who returned home after a long time.“Yes. I followed her,” Zion proudly answered. He crossed his long legs, wrapped his hands on his knees and smiled at his parents.“Why did you follow that lowly woman?” his mother, Sherly, rebuked.“Harriet got into an accident. And she is my secretary. So I don’t see any wrong with following her to New York.”“Huh,” Madell suddenly laughed. She mockingly stared at her brother and said, “The boss followed his secretary. This is so rare. Brother, you look like an owner who followed his dog. It will be funny if the owner wag his tail in front of the dog.”Zion’s arrogant eyes shot straight to his sister. He sneered at her first, then replied, “As far as I can remember, you are still under provision, right?”The smile on Madell’s lips vanished.“Why don’t you act as if
There are no CCTV around my room. It is obvious that Madell asked the servants to take out all cameras so that she can abuse me whenever she wanted. I remembered times when she will knock in my room just to give me a good slap. Well, I tolerated her craziness before because I was stupidly in love with her brother. Yes. I was an idiot who hoped that we can still be family if only I tried. But not now. After the second slap on her face, Madell is now on her hands and knees on the ground. When she turned back to me, I could clearly see how red her cheeks are. ‘So satisfying to see.’ “How dare you?!” she shouted, shooting laser with her sharp eyes. All of her body are trembling, not because she’s frightened, but because she’s so eager to hit me back. “I only did that to remember if I hit miss Madell or not,” I answered with sarcastic smile on my lips. “But I guess, it is such a hard job. Maybe, if my hand turned numb from hitting you, then I can remember.” I showed her my right
Both of cheeks got swollen red and I could feel the tingling pain spread out all of my face. It feels like something is burning and they went as big as two burger buns. Nevertheless, I am so used of receiving physical pain so this does not much worry me at all. I practiced how to treat myself too.To aid my reddened cheeks, I went to the mansion’s kitchen. I put ice cubes inside a clean towel and pressed them on my face. It’s cool enough to subside my anger.As I pressed the ice and stared at the blank space, I recalled how shocked the chairman was when he saw me sitting on the ground in front of his granddaughter. Actually, I already expected that the chairman will walk around that area because he always feels thirsty during that time. It is his night routine, which I won’t forget because I’ve served him for long years. That was why I purposely slapped myself and pretended like a victim.‘Well, I am indeed a victim of Madell’s abuse. It just that I found a way how to fight back and t