"SOLD!!!"It echoed in the bar, shaking everyone back to reality, Dante raked his hair back with his hand in excitement and then blushed badly, when the light spotted him, the crowd could see that his excitement was for the lady not for charity, that he had help."Dante stop it, people are looking at you." Jayden elbows him, and he composes himself."Oh! I was only excited that I could help in my little way." Dante finds the right words to use, you can see Jeffrey's face all sour, as the bar owner announces that Dante should come to get his prize and take her home since he is the highest bidder.Kathleen's face is sour, she feels envious of Barbara, with those men dying to have her and bidding their hard-earned money for this beauty, making her wish she was picked, so she could get that sweet excitement of being wanted.Barbara was a perfect beauty, especially with her outfit, she would win the hearts of all these men, Kathleen and Jayden looked at each other seeing that Dante had gone
"Can you just open this thing, I am so uncomfortable with it." She raised her hand that was handcuffed to his."You should stop moving your hand awkwardly, you will hurt yourself." Barbara tittered at his words, he looked at her."Since when did you care, if I hurt myself?" Dante looks at her. "Li Jun! You shouldn't act like I am lying, you don't care about me if you did, you wouldn't hurt me this much, and you would never have left me with those scandals, all by myself to handle. You would have told me, you love me back when I told you, I love you very much, I thought you were different, I thought my SHE finally answered my letter, that he gave me the type of hubby I have dreamed of all my life, I thought, you are the one my SHE send to me but it turns out that, my letter is the opposite of what I wanted.""Letter?""Yes, my letter in the bottle, I had to throw it into that beach but I didn't get an answer, my SHE must hate me, that I can't find my dream hubby, I will always meet shad
The next morning, Dante is sitting in the dining, they are about to have their breakfast. Jayden looks at him."Gosh! What happened to you? What's up with dark circles under your eyes? You look stressed out."Dante pressed his lips together while wiping his face with his hands, Jayden is right, he is stressed up, and staying with Barbara for hours is stressful for him."It's that naughty Barbara's fault." He complains bitterly, causing Jayden to stare at him.Barbara's words bore holes in his heart, he was sad, sad that she would stop chasing him, she had moved on, those words of hers were bugging him in his dreams and her face was yet another torture for him, she was everywhere, in his head, heart and even in his eyes."Is there a way I could get some pills?""Are you sick?" Jayden asked, Dante rolled his eyes at him, Jayden smirked, then thought of teasing him more."Were you having Insomnia because of Barbara? Tell me, what happened between you two? Did you feel her impact? Did she
Shirley have a terrible night, she keeps having so many nightmares about Dante and Barbara, and all her dreams are filled with her absurd thought about the things, the two of them might be doing, behind closed doors."Fuck!" She cursed and sighed badly. Clyde looks at his daughter who is looking terrible."Hey daughters, what is the issue?" Clyde asked her, she moved her gaze to him."I am fine, just a bit stressed." She grabbed her cutleries and started eating, her nanny looked at her, she had been the one caring for her since she lost her mother."If you say so." Clyde goes mute and then looks at her nanny, signaling her to talk to this naughty daughter of his, the man drops his cutleries, when nanny May shakes her head. "Baby!" He called again."Father, what is it?" Shirley has always been so Pampered by Mr. Clyde that she feels everything and everyone, should worship her and that she should always get what she wants."Hey relax, I have given a thought to your proposal to join the c
The meeting is held at the ancestral mansion of the Harold's, it's a very big place. It's probably more than twenty acres of land, with trees and a spacious garden.It looked different from the one, she had visited when she was much younger, so many renovations had taken place, The meeting is held at the ancestral mansion of the Harold's, it's a very big place. It's probably more than twenty acres of land, with trees and a spacious garden. It looked different from the one, she had visited when she was much younger, so many renovations had taken place, making it more modernized. "Whoa! The Harolds had done a great job with improving the old facility with new ones, but it still looks creeping. "Shirley!" "Come on Dad, I am sure Uncle Harold must be lonely here since Aunt Jie Li left and Dante doesn't live here anymore. Can't you imagine how lonely it will be without a family?" "I too lived a lonely life when you left." "Come on Dad, I know my nanny May, took good care of you, righ
"Yeah! Barbara Calvin is the new COO of the company, after the company merged with Don's group, we needed a new COO Mr. Jackson was no longer fit, so we cast a vow, and she was elected.""Hm! So she was the girl you bid for last night? Are you two in some kind of...""Shirley!!!"Mr. Clyde called her, she pressed her lips together and then moved her gaze back to Dante, acting like she didn't care, yet she was going to burn Barbara to ashes, she was going to consume her that she would regret ever meeting Dante, the young man is hers, till the end of time, nothing could separate them not even some silly rented boyfriend contract could do that."That being settled, I also have another proposition, since my health is not getting better, I also want my daughter to be in safe hands when I am gone, so I would like, our family to move from more than just friends to in-laws." Clyde indirectly said Dante coughed again, Sally had lost the number of times, Dante had coughed during their discussio
Dante turned around seeing that, the three of them were behind him, he grabbed Shirley's hand."We need to talk." He dragged her along the hallway, Sally was surprised, he had been acting all calm since, but deep inside he was boiling."Big bro!""Come on, let them be, I am sure, he wants to have a heart-to-heart talk with her.""What if he hunts her?""He is not going to hurt her." Dante pushed Shirley into the study, then locked the door behind him."Dante, why are you mad?""What do you think you are doing? Showing up after a very long time and blackmailing your dad to betroth me to you. Do I look like some pieces of thing to you? That could be discarded and picked up at any time. Do I look stupid? Probably you think I am that stupid eighteen-year-old boy who is lusting after you. Shirley smiled. What's funny?""You can't get over me, and I know that you refuse every other woman because of me.""I..." He parted his lips, yet he couldn't say the words."You see, you can't even say th
"Hey dear, come over here." Jayden called out to her, Kathleen looked at her, she could remember the lady's face, and she sighed inwardly."You all are having a nice time, the mansion is more beautiful, still familiar just like yesterday," Shirley comments as she takes the seat available."Of course, you should know Dad, he likes to move with the trend." Jayden comments."Yeah! I could remember when the garden was still a mess, and that pond that was abandoned for years was still close to it.""How could you forget that creepy night, when we sneak out to watch a movie...""The zombies!!!" Shirley added."Yeah! We were really scared and Dante was the only one not scared, he had tormented us by wearing those scary costumes, causing us to sleep under Nanny May's bed." The two laughed heartily."How old was Dante then?" Sally asked."He was fifteen, yet he wasn't scared," Jayden added. "He was our big brother who could protect us even as a child, whenever we get involved in any mischief, h