Cheeky

Mariana

I looked at the visibly angry man in front of me and tried not to laugh at the angry look on Ethan's face at that moment, after all, he was not a man to be trifled with and I had understood that since I had heard about the things he had already done for Murilo.

That didn't mean I couldn't have a little fun at his expense, though.

When Ethan summoned me to accompany him to an important business dinner, my first reaction was to refuse to follow any of his orders; after all, I am a free woman.

I went to bed extremely angry and willing to let him wait for me like a fool, because I would not even bother to give him an explanation or any satisfaction about my reasons for not going to that dinner.

But of course, after a long and exhausting night, in which I could hardly sleep, I thought more calmly about the whole situation and concluded that it would not be wise of me to challenge Ethan like that and I just settled for going to that dinner with him.

After talking to Virginia about t