Chapter 1

Me and my mom reach the New Castle airport and decide to have a cup of coffee while waiting for the car which is supposed to pick us up from here and take us to Odessa, but is running a bit late. We step into a coffee shop and take a small corner seat.

“Mom! I will go and get our coffee. Do you want to eat anything?” I ask my mom seeing her looking nervously at the prices.

My mom is very smart and hardworking and it is only because of her day in and day out hardwork, in a small designer boutique that I could study in a good school till now! She saves every penny she can and we have always lived life, calculating every cent we spend and every cent we save! That is how life has been after my father died when I was only a little girl leaving not much for us!

“Mom!” I squeeze her hand seeing her calculating how much it could cost us to have coffee here.

She gives me a sheepish look and says, “Emi, I think we don’t have to drink coffee here! It costs 6.5$!” I give a quick calculation in my mind from USD to UAH and frown! But soon nodding in understanding, I reply, “Don’t worry Mom, I have got this small one!”

I have kept some money saved from when I was in New York and I decide to buy Mom a cup of steaming coffee! She seems tired and needs it much!

Moving to the counter I buy a medium cup of coffee and feel a twitch in my heart when I give away the money to the cashier! I had in all saved only 180$ and now I have only around 172$ left after paying for the coffee and taxes. I have saved the money for medical emergencies and have decided to save more!

But one cup of coffee for my tired Mom is worth all my money! With a smile on my face I walk towards the table where my mom sat, holding the coffee cup in my hand. I could take a few steps only when I trip on someone’s leg and fall flat on the floor with the coffee spilled partly over me and the rest on the floor in front of me!

“Hahaha! Just look at her face!”---- I hear a voice make fun of me.

“That was rude AD! This is not funny!” --- someone snaps.

As I look up, I see every eye on me, giggling, whispering, smirking and some looking with empathy!

Embarrassed I quickly stand up and start to look at my white dress painted in coffee stains and my hands and face wet with the hot coffee! I keep staring at myself and then looking at the empty coffee cup with tears in my eyes, when I notice through my blurry vision, a hand with a handful of tissues extended towards me.

Without looking up, I whisper a ‘Thank you’ and take the tissues when comes his voice, “Tissues to clean the floor girl! You spilled coffee on it!”

Blinking my tears, I look up shocked and angry too, hearing the irritating comment and see the most handsome devilish boy standing in front of me, smirking like a jerk and suddenly I realise that he is not only the one who made me trip in the first place but his eyes! Those are the exact greens I see in my dreams! Or is it just my imagination?

As I stand dumbfounded, he takes my hand and forces a ten dollar bill, saying, “This is advance payment for cleaning up the mess beggar girl!”

He along with his two other friends, breaks into a laughter, while yet another friend looks at me with a sorry face!

Before I can muster the courage to say anything he leaves with his gang of rich friends without giving me a second glance! Only the quiet guy turns around towards me once before leaving, giving me a sad expression or that of pity!

I sigh and rush to the washroom to clean myself. Taking some time to come out of the embarrassment and humiliation, I decide to fetch another coffee spending another 6.5$ for my mother! I just can’t let this incident spoil my day!

‘It was one bad encounter with a bad boy whom I might never ever see in my life and it is over!’ – I say to myself and this time, carefully carry the coffee to my mother.

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Adrian’s POV--

I am Adrian Ford, the one and only son of multibillionaire business tycoon Jason William Ford, who owns several Companies across the globe and almost everything in our small town Odessa, including the institute itself, where I study and have made myself comfortable in! Well, I have been spending time hanging out with my friends and bullying others! It is kind of fun and gives me a kick seeing others do whatever I ask them to do, just in fear!

I should have completed my studies last year from this institute, which is named after my late grandfather William Ford, and would have been working in our own Company if only I appeared for the exams. But staying here and having fun every day is exciting and I don’t want to give that up so soon! I can always go and sit on the CEO’s chair any day I want! An entire empire is ready for me to take over! I am glad that my grandfather thought of building this institute and that is the reason no one dares to even point a finger at me here, whatever I do!

Today has been fun though because I found a temporary bully at the airport and I utilised the opportunity quite well!

“Why would you do that to her A.D?” Sebastian asks in an offended voice.

I just give him a quick glance before focusing back on the road to Odessa. I have come to see off my father who went on a business trip. Not that I drop him everytime, but I did this time because I was bored!

“Relax man! Did you look at her dress? She needed money and I gave her ten dollars!” I smirk.

“I didn’t see her asking for your money or begging!” Sebastian says turning his face away. He is sitting on the passenger seat while I am driving my favourite sports car. Donald, Henry and Leonardo are sitting at the back drinking beer.

“What can I say? I have a gentle heart?” I smirk again and this time the others laugh along with me. I pat Seb’s knee and taking sips of my beer from the bottle, I chuckle, “Why are you so interested in that girl? Oh let me guess!” Leaving the steering for a few seconds I wave my hand in the air and tease, “The Great prince Sebastian Knight always at the service of all Damsels in distress!”

We all break into huge laughter and Sebastian rolls his eyes!

I and Sebastian are not best of friends! In fact we are from rival families and he is two years older than me and is an ideal son, as my father describes him. It is my father who forced me to let Sebastian come along with us to the New Castle airport, otherwise his fake personality of being the perfect man irritates my balls!

“AD?” Leo hums from the back and I look at him through the mirror raising an eyebrow.

“It is only a week before the new session starts and I don’t know what Dean Robert will say this time! He won’t dare to tell you much but it is not the same for us!” Leo expressed his worries.

Actually Donald, Henry and Leo are of my age and we have decided to remain and enjoy the great facilities of the institute for a couple of years more and hence we didn’t appear for the exams again this year.

“I give a *uck to that jerk of a dean! And don’t worry bro, I will take care of him!” I assure him and then thinking about the fresh meats that we will get to play with this year, we all grin ear to ear and shout in unison, “FRESH MEAT IN ONE WEEK!!!!”

The fresh session will start in one week and we will have new faces to tease, torture and new girls to bed! Wow! That’s what life is like! THRILLING!!!

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Apsia