"Greetings, Mr. Lorcan Amadeus!" Mom welcomed him in a very exaggerated tone.She even stood up from her seat to acknowledge my ex-husband's presence. Dad on the other hand, cleared his throat and stood up with my mother, offered a handshake to Lorcan who was looking at them impassively. "A pleasant day to you, my son-in-law." Father said and i was like, 'what son-in-law?'It should be, former son-in-law! Heck. This is getting embarrassing as seconds passes by."Mr. and Mrs. Rae..." Lorcan timidly accepted their hands, he kissed mom's back hand emotionlessly. "What made you visit my place?" He then gazed at me. I bit my lip and looked down."It's my sister. We discovered from her friend here that she's been staying here in your place--" Kaden was quickly cut off by Sydney who was sitting next to me."It's because I was forced! You threatened me!" She exclaimed angrily so, i have to calm her down.Kaden rolled his eyes at her. Look at this man, such a bitch himself. "And what do you
I was overthinking about it until the sun was replaced by the moon. My growing curiosity about that abandoned room didn't give me a peaceful sleep and i woke up the next morning as if a smashed potato in a nutshell."I'm sincerely sorry for what mom did to you..." I said to Edith while applying some ointment on her left cheek where mom slapped her.It looks swollen due to the impact and I feel so guilty!"It's totally fine, miss." She kept on refusing my initiation to put a remedy on it but i never listened to her."Don't worry, they won't go back here anymore." I let out a sigh. Well, just a hunch and I'm not entirely sure about it.But the next few days came and they never pestered me anymore. I had my peaceful days again without stressing over my control freak parents and i never heard anything after their visit in Lorcan's place aside from the spreading rumors inside the E.R.A, our company which is now being handled by its new CEO, the first born, Kaden Rae, my brother.Obviously,
"Are you serious, Lorcan?"As I asked, i was searching for some jokes on his face but there were none. He looked all serious, and i remembered he's not fond of jokes. Not really."Yeah. It's a kind offer from me, isn't it?" His hands held both sides of my waist and squeezed it a bit.Ugh, it became his hobby!"Where's your current head architect here anyway? Why are you replacing him all of a sudden?" Because it doesn't make sense to me.He lazily rolled his eyes. "She's unprofessional, that's it." My eyes narrowed at that."She?" The head architect is a woman?"Yup. She always wants us to talk in private after meetings and it's fucking irritating." His brows furrowed, and he was observing my reaction.I remained unaffected though, even so deep inside i find it irritating as well. Like hell, what's the name of that woman so that i can talk to her in private like what she wants to and tell her to back off? Gosh."Maybe she likes you that much." I shrugged, hiding my irritation."Hmm, b
So, this is it. Her words still cut deeper than a knife. They still seep through my heart, stinging it. "You have never changed, have you? Still a low class whore, a self-centered bitch trying so hard to win my son's heart. Wake up, little missy. You can't do it successfully. You will never have him. I won't let it happen." She stepped twice near me, I was already out of Lorcan's table, facing her with all my dignity.But it was so hard... to pretend, not to be affected by her choices of words."I don't want to disrespect you, Mrs. Helena so, please. I beg to disagree with all your accusations, throwing names at me, they were never true." I stood for myself, meeting her eyes full of judgements and dislikes."Oh wow, look at the guts you've got," she exasperatedly put her palm on her chest. "Stop this saint facade of yours, will you? You can't fool everybody here, slut!""I'm not a slut!" My fists clenched with the way she downgraded me. This is too much. I don't deserve the names and
They all stood up to give acknowledgement to the chief executive officer who was holding my waist with an iconically blank expression. My eyes stayed in Regina's position when i saw her whispering something to her mom beside her and then, they both looked back at us. It looks like she's expecting something."Shall we start, everyone?"Lorcan, as the chairperson, occupied his seat and we needed to separate for a while because I had to occupy the space beside my brother who was frowning already."What was that?" He asked in between his teeth."Mind your own business, Kaden." I shrugged, eyes remained in front.I heard him scoff. "I swear, if you're planning to initiate trouble again I won't be tolerating it anymore, little sis."Oh come on! Can't he just shut up? What does he think of me, a troublemaker brat who has been impregnated accidentally? Sounds fun, but the first two words were not so me.I'm a full-grown woman now. At least, i was done playing with boys my age. It was a pure t
She was blabbering about it for the whole two hours and i was like, "Stay there still, Lorcan. I have to deal with this interesting news first!"I can see my best friend forcing herself to be annoyed but failed because it's obvious, behind her rants, she's happy with what's happening in her love life. I feel thrilled, too. Like i've really never imagined them dating each other, most especially my stoic of a brother who loves annoying me and making his self a total jerk to my view. But then, enemies to lovers, huh? Not bad. I might reconsider matching them, shipping them. Besides, they look cute together. I can imagine it already. A nonchalant and bubby one. "And he gave me a freaking human sized teddy bear!" Sydney cutely cupped her face. I smiled. "What can i say? He's a corny guy." I chuckled, tainting Kaden's image in her mind."You got it right, Tash! But then... i have to admit that he's cute. In his own ways." She suddenly screamed, it almost destroyed my eardrums! What a pit
What was that?"Hey, baby." A hand touched my shoulder."Oh my freaking!" I almost had a heart attack!Holding my chest, i turned around and saw Lorcan looking bewildered at my reaction. I immediately calmed myself. "What's going on?" He asked, his observant eyes stayed on mine. I gulped nervously."N-nothing." I looked away. His hand slid smoothly into my slightly fidgeting hand. "Really?" He's seriously digging up into it!But I can't find my voice to tell it to him. It's as if something is holding me back from doing so. My vision shifted to the people who went out of the conference and they aren't familiar to me, only Regina who left much earlier than them. Ugh, I can't seem to forget her words. It sounded like a warning to me, an awareness. But why? Is this something connected to their past? Her past experience with him...But i do trust Lorcan! I trust who i love. "How's the ruckus in there? Everything fixed already?" I decided to divert the topic.And he's not that dumb to n
"You were into it..." I mumbled meaningfully.He glanced unfathomably at me before a door was revealed to my eyesight."I was." Shit. I was completely astonished while watching him enter inside, my feet unconsciously made its steps to follow him. So, this explains why i never noticed something more odd than the old pictures he has there. It's because he has a secret room here, behind the cabinet. And it's not just a simple room, but his playroom. But the moment my eyes roamed around, it dawned on me that this is a red room. Darker shades of erotica. Some equipment, a large sized bed with chains on it, steels on the corner with handcuffs hanging on both sides, lower steel with collar and a whip. Oh my...I may be innocent to figure out some things but these are definitely quite familiar to me. I have seen porns, i am aware of BDSMs so I can say I'm officially an open-minded person but then, it's him who has these, who was involved in this. I'm totally surprised because i thought he's