09

Everyone looked at Helio who was talking while leaning against the large pillar of his house.

They all fell silent in obedience, no one made a sound even though Victoria seemed to be rolling her eyes lazily.

Helio walked towards them.

"I said do whatever you want, but just don't bother me. Do you know what it means if I come to this place?" Helio asked, standing in front of Victoria who was glaring at him.

The tension between Helio and Victoria seemed to create a small spark, but it was soon extinguished when Claudia interrupted him with,

“You see, Honey! That woman tried to throw away my servants!” Helio glanced coldly. Claudia stood next to him, seeking for his attention. “Se's taking revenge! Throwing away my trusted servants as soon as she entered this house! Keep repeating the words that she is the mistress of this house like a neglected person and it makes my ears hurt! Are you going to letting her to be more shameless, Honey?”

Helio answered without looking at Claudia. "What do you want me to do?" Victoria stared at him sharply as if in protest.

Meanwhile Claudia smiled with satisfaction. “I want my servants to keep working in this house for me! You will grant it, right? If you let that woman continue to be arrogant, she might kick me out of this house too, Honey!”

Helio chuckled for that. He looked back at Victoria as if to make sure she heard his next words.

“Okay, do what you want.”

“Oh My God, Thank you Honey! I know you're also sick of seeing her act like this, right?” Claudia hugged Helio's arm spoilingly, but Helio immediately put her hands away.

“I'm doing this because I'm going to get sick of hearing you whine, so don't take it the wrong way and be nice.”

Helio left them into the house, but victory was with Claudia now who was facing Victoria with a cocky smile.

“What do you have to say, slum rag? Do you want to protest?” Claudia asked, and Victoria just remained silent. “This is the difference between us; in the end, Helio still chose me over a pathetic rag like you!”

Claudia left with her servants. Victoria also saw Bertha smiling proudly because Claudia had managed to help her.

Victoria swore she would really kick the servants, but for now she just wanted to protest to her husband, Helio.

Victoria walked quickly into the house, stopping Helio who was just about to walked up the stairs to his room.

"What did you mean by that? You said that I could have complete authority over this house!”

Helio stopped on the fifth step, looking at Victoria below coldly.

"You want to protest?"

"Yes! Because you gave me authority but you went back on what you said! Did you just say it to play around?"

"I was playing around indeed."

"What?"

Helio walked to her and standing right in front of her. With his face showed no attention to what Victoria was said.

Helio was totally didn't care.

"You're agreed to be my toy, so what kind of thing should I do to you except to play around? Are you expecting me to act like your husband or treat you like my queen? what the hell, Victoria? Are you fall in love with me this quickly?"

Victoria clenched her fits; her eyes sharp like an eagle towards its prey but now she had no power even to punched Helio's face.

"Stop talking a nonsense...," she said, held back her anger.

"So stop making me do that by your words. I gave you the authority indeed, but I still the one with top authority here. So even you say no but I say yes, the final answer will still yes."

"What a damn jerk...." she muttered.

"And one more thing, I still gonna remind you to watch your mouth. I am your master."

Victoria didn't say anything, she walked away and headed to her room with anger. She slammed the door so hard until Helio could hear that and chuckling.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! He's really testing my patience!" Victoria said.

"First, he married Claudia after hearing me say that I would never let that happen. And now he does what Claudia wants even though he knows I will hate it! He's playing around with me and thinks that it's fun?"

Victoria didn't know how to ease her bad mood right now, maybe the only way was punching Helio's face but imagined Helio would still be smiling like he was enjoying the punch made Victoria more pissed off.

It felt like Helio would make everything Victoria did as a joke, like Victoria was a doll that entertained him because that was her job.

"I feel like I am on his palm while he watches me fool myself." Victoria bowed her head, she was on the edge of hopes until she remembered her aim.

Victoria raised her head again with confidence that she wouldn't lose this easily.

"I want to revenge all those who made me suffer like this, and Helio is still on the list." She said. "I am not going to let myself down because of this little thing. I am going to make sure that I will win. Now, the only important thing to do is just to survive in this hell."

Victoria will made her plans up tomorrow. Now she only wanted to rest. But at the next morning, she woke up with Helio in her room, standing before her bed while watching her coldly.

"What are you doing here?" asked Victoria.

Helio threw a paper bag to her bed, knowing that it contained a dress with a high price, obviously.

"Tonight we're going to have a dinner at my father's house so I bought you a new dress because I'm not sure that you're not going to dress like a beggar if I don't watch you properly."

Victoria flinched her forehead. It was still so early in the morning but Helio just started to give him another mocks.

"Ask the maid to do your makeup. Make sure you will look like my wife."