He’s not just a cruel guy, I guess. He’s also a great pretender, who showed kindness in front of my parents. Since they left us, he already removed his mask. Now, the evil Evan is back. “So what if I am mad at you?” I snorted. I crossed my arms and looked away. My eyes are unwilling to even glare back at him. He’s getting on my nerves! I reminded myself to calm down a bit. I don’t want to make any scene knowing that my parents are here and probably eavesdropping on us or whatnot. For sure, I wouldn’t like what might happen next the moment they hear me yelling at this guy. I heard him chuckle. What’s so funny? It’s strange how he can easily jump from one persona to another. He was just playing an angel role earlier and here’s how he behaves now that we’re alone. “I will make my employees aware that I have a fiancée,” he said in a soft tone. My lips parted as my eyes widened. I glanced back at him. Is
I kept looking at the calling card that Evan gave me last night and it’s funny that I also kept rolling my eyes at it— shoving away the thought of calling him for a lunch date today. If I call him now, that would only show that I am just one of the girls who can’t resist him. He would probably think that I am not mad at him anymore. Well, for the record, I am no longer upset about what happened yesterday. The fact that he visited me here last night and apologized for what he’s done, that’s already enough reason for me to forgive him. I just don’t like it when he speaks full of arrogance. I sighed heavily. I massaged the side of my forehead as I felt so stressed with all these thoughts playing around my head. I am just twenty-two years old, but this marriage for convenience and my soon-to-be husband are both giving me so much headache! I also thought about the details of our engagement and wedding. I have no idea about it at a
“See? I know you just want to make your parents happy. You mentioned before that they have plans for you and this must be your fate. We both know how much they want this arranged marriage to push through and they would be really disappointed if Evan would refuse just because you love your pride that much,” Chandria stated like she was discussing the whole truth. I gulped. “So, are you saying that I have to make a fast move on him? Would it not make me look like a desperate woman if I’d do that?” I carefully asked. She smirked at me and then crossed her arms against her chest. “Nathalie, you are not the one who’s desperate here. You’re not that type of person. The ones desperate would be your parents. You have to keep that in your mind,” she said meaningfully. My forehead creased. Chandria is giving me so many headaches because of her foul mouth! She’s right, though. I am not that desperate. My paren
Due to the intense fear that I felt, I am still shedding tears when we went out of the police station. It feels like all the bad lucks have been thrown out on me. I am scared that my parents would learn about this accident. They will definitely punish me for what I have done. “You are still crying,” a familiar voice behind my back has spoken. I did not bother glancing his way. I do not even have the gut to face him right now. I just want to evacuate to the planet Mars and bury my shitty head in there. I just walked and cried my heart out. I have been wiping my face using my own handkerchief which is totally wet because of my endless tears, and ironically, I still have so many gallons of tears to cry. I felt Evan’s presence at my back. He is still following me even though I am not saying a single word. I do not want to admit the fact that I am still lucky as he was there when I needed him badly. He was the one who fixed this whole thing a
Even once in my life, I have never thought about killing a person out of my anger. Never did I expect to imagine a brutal image of myself being a killer, but this time, I think that’s what I would love to do. I am staring at the man who made me feel worse. Seriously, what exactly is wrong with him? His mouth does not even rest for a bit and kept talking bad things that made me feel more angry and devastated. He’s still in the mood of rubbing all my mistakes in my face instead of comforting me. Does it make him less of a person if he tries to be a little kinder to me? Or, does he loathe me so much that he acts this way? I fisted my hand. He glanced my way as he drove his car and then he flashed a smirk at me. “Would you please stop annoying me?” I asked him, irritated that I can’t even do anything other than throw a dagger at him. My ragged breathing became more evident as the annoyance I am feeling deep within is just eating me up. I am
The next day, I felt like escaping because I have to visit Zendejas’ residence as my parents wanted me to do. With an irritation evident on my face, I was forced to wear an elegant off-shoulder white dress. Once again, my parents have urged me to wear something nice and to apologize to Evan for the mess I have created yesterday. That arrogant man, I could not even imagine myself apologizing to him because he is too cruel to me. I could just simply visit him at his office today however; my parents have learned that he’s on a day off until tomorrow. According to daddy, Riley will be the one to accompany me to Evan’s house and if I’d do something awful during my visit, he would know it immediately. I heaved a sigh and just wore my black stilettos and then I also put light makeup on my face to make sure I am still presentable. Regardless of how I feel about this situation and even though I do not want to visit that ruthless guy, I will still choose to be
Samantha seemed very excited, and I could almost feel my chest tightening because of the sudden fear that eats me up. She asked the housemaid to prepare some snacks, and then as we walked through the pathway that will lead us to the swimming pool area, she kept telling me a lot of things about her brother— things that I am not aware of. She also mentioned that her parents keep asking Evan to announce our engagement very soon. “My brother informed us that he would talk to you about it first. I hope he already did that. Knowing my brother, he is so slow when it comes to this kind of thing,” Samantha added when we arrived in their swimming pool area. I only shook my head. Evan hasn’t told me about this thing yet. Whenever we meet, we only end up fighting because of his attitude issue. Samantha frowned as she shook her head in disbelief. She glanced at the wide swimming pool. I did the same and we both saw the familiar figure of someone having a good di
I didn’t know how I was able to look at him in his pierced and brooding eyes for a long time. God knows how I wanted to look away but my eyes were unwilling to do so. All I knew was my heart is beating aggressively like it would come out of my chest and abandon me because of the extreme fear it felt with Evan’s dark gaze. He was too close and the atmosphere is getting so intense. My body cannot seem to function well while he was holding me firmly. My knees were getting weak too; one move and I would probably fall on the floor because I am damn scared right now. “I am here because my parents wanted me to apologize to you formally,” I managed to speak firmly despite the fear in my chest. I gathered all my strength and pushed him so that I can get away from him. Good thing it worked! He stepped back and that have me a little sigh of relief. My face heated in shame. How could he touch me like that? My entire body shivered as I still feel