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       Wicked souls?! All she could see is her cunning family out to get rid of her. Are there more people after her life apart from them?

            Paige sneered, scoffed and returned to her soft voice. Her face had a mischievous grin on her face while she asked the most deafening question to Alyssa.

“You seem interested in Brother Dylan more than I am. Do you perhaps like him?” Her inquiries caused the chauffeur of the car to cough out loud and also Alyssa widened her eyes in surprise. She held her fingers silently, counting them and also thinking of words to come with.

          Paige had never brought up this issue and would think Alyssa's words were for the betterment of her relationship, why today did she change? And most of all, her words were presented in a way as if she knew what was going on.

“Me? Obviously no! How could I betray you and love Brother Dylan? I know how much you adore him, I dare not to fall in love with him!”

“Then call him and say it to him. Here the phone is ringing. ” Alyssa gulped nervously when she heard Dylan's voice from Paige's phone speaker. She wasn't joking at all! She did phone him!

         Her fingers trembled in fear while drops of sweats formed on her forehead. How could she possible tell Dylan that she did not like him? That would ruin their month of dating! 

          She gritted her teeth boldly, jerked the phone out her hands, stared at the caller and gulped back in. Her current state was inevitable! She couldn't escape it and now was her doom!

“Paige? Is there a problem? ” He impatiently demanded. He had some deals to attend to that were more profitable than answering calls from an illegitimate bastard child.

“Brother Dylan is Paige. Alyssa has something to tell you. ” Her voice held mockery in it.

“Alyssa? What does she want to say?” He breathed out, nudged his brows and calmed his nerves down. “Go on?”

          Alyssa held his calm voice as her face paled begging for unimaginable forgiveness. She did not know how to carry out this seemingly ridiculous request. Stuck on both sides, Alyssa shivered to which to choose.

      If she did not agree to her wishes, then it would be so visible to any moron that she also took a liking to Brother Dylan which was bad! 

“Brother Dylan, it is Alyssa. I just wanted to clarify an issue with Paige. I don't like you!” She whispered that last part in the speaker, hung up on him and breathed out. Her actions just raised Paige's suspicions to another next level.

       She had just confirmed what she wanted to clarify, Adams Alyssa still remained in love with her fiancée, so why did she hide it for too long?

“Sister Alyssa? I.......am confident you don't like him anymore. Driver, take us to the most expensive boutique there is!” She pointed towards the electronic map.

                             

In The Gray's Merchandise.

           Hayden pondered back to front, with his palms sweating and images of his grave appearing in his mind. The main mansion had just called that his daughter, Gray Candy escaped from his tight security.

          He knew what was going to happen to him once the fearsome boss got to know about it, that was why he freaked out panicking on what to do. The large brown door was pushed open by Calven as he strolled to his huge silvery black desk, sat down and had his legs crossed.

        His mind seemed not to be active as he gazed into space while tapping his fingers on the table. His thoughts were just on the arrogant miss of the Adams'.

        The viral kiss is pretty much hitting waves on the internet, yet she did not seem much bothered about the situation which made him flare up. He snapped himself off the thought, sipped some brown coffee down his throat and focused on the man shivering in front of him.

“Are you cold? The air conditioner isn't even turned on yet you're fidgeting!” He said while his brows creased together. His assistant for a long time hadn't been in such a situation, what happened that he suddenly became like this? Unless he had let loose his daughter, Candy!

           His eyes shot fire as his fist came together forming a huge visible and scary bulge. How dare he let loose a six years old girl to this dangerous world!

“Where is Candy!” He banged the table angrily roaring at him. Hayden fell to the ground, trembling at the sight of his furious boss.

        He knew so much about the merciless boss and his hot temper, now that he had awoken the bloodthirsty beast, he knew he won't make it alive today.

“They did not mean to let her out of their sight. From the story I heard, she had poisoned them and ran off with one of the cars in the garage!”

“Great! How marvelous! A girl of six years poisoned militant A-agents. How am I supposed to believe that shit?! If Candy is not found within five minutes, your head would pay for their incompetency!” Hayden knew that the boss's threats were not to be taken lightly, he excused himself from the office and went immediately to the car.

            If she wasn't found within five minutes, then RIP would be his new name!

            

         The luxurious car parked in front of the boutique with two elegant women coming down from it, one who was Adams Paige, and the other, Adams Alyssa. The door blinked open letting them in as they strode to the counter for direction.

“Where can I have your most expensive wedding gowns? I need them for my upcoming wedding ” Paige adjusted her coarse to a Kore friendly one causing the receptionist to laugh out loud.

       It was quite funny to the cashier that the arrogant lady was getting married! To whom? Her secret gigolo she kept?

       Everyone knows that the young miss was a target for social critics and embarrassment, what kind of man would be willing to place a ring on her finger?

“This boutique is for high class elegant women and not for garbage ” She addressed solemnly with dislike. Obviously, it was so open to see that Adams mistreated Paige, and for that reason showed that she was not important.

         The woman rolled her eyes, turned to Alyssa and changed her expression.

“Miss, this way please!” She referred to Alyssa in a more pleasant way, taking her by the hands and leading her into a room where they kept the finest gowns in town.

        Paige grinned as her dimples were exposed. So this was what she had gotten from Adams? Disrespect! No worries, tables were soon to be turned!

          Paige followed along into the room, flipped her hands through the wedding magazine, stood up and sighed. Since they were going to treat her like garbage, she might as well make them seem like one!

“Alyssa, can you imagine that this wedding gown is made out of fake silk?” Paige increased the volume of her voice indicating to the customers present in that room that they were all fake products, and technically she was right!

          That boutique was owned by an underworld dealer who sealed mostly in fake clothing materials and made money from duping people. Do they think she'd let them off after dumping her? Of course not! 

       They could do that to others, but definitely not to her!

“What are you talking about?” Alyssa made her face soar as she noticed Paige dragged lots of elite attention to her especially the young miss of the Gray's, Candy!

              She cleared her throat, took out a lighter from her purse and then rubbed it against the silk fur on the gown. The sudden unexpected light up of the gown left them in awe.

       She was right, they were all fake products of silk! Adams Paige herself was a master in fashion and could easily detect fake materials from real materials and one efficient method was the flame test.

         Real silk makes smoldering white powder when burnt but this did not make it and instead turned to ashes showing it was fake! They were all fake!

        The crowd of elites gaped at this new revelation and murmured.

“This......... This isn't true Paige! Tell them it isn't! ” Alyssa whispered in her ears, urging her to admit they were all real.

“How can I tell lies to these fine elites only because you want your products to sell? Those are lies, Sister Alyssa!” She added now causing commotion within the elites.

“That is right! They are all fake!”

“Yes no wonder mine faded off after I washed and ironed it! You all are fake!”

“Why won't she try to convince us after all, she is the brand's ambassador! Fake! Thieves!”

           They did not need anyone to explain what was going on and barked at Alyssa. It all made sense! Alyssa never wore her brand's product in any films, and still advertised them in commercials, because she herself knew they were fake!

“What have you done, Adams Paige?! '' Alyssa couldn't hide her upset nature; fired directly at Paige. The only brand that took her in as her ambassador was soon going to lose its customers and at most, go bankrupt all because of HER!