All Chapters of Forced to Marry: The Apple of His Eye: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

"You're just a maid. You're asking for it, talking to me like that!" Lorraine screeched."She'd truly be in trouble if she were to let you in." Heather showed up. "Please stop putting the household staff in tough spots, Ms. Carlson. She's only doing her job.""Oh, it's you, Heather." Lorraine looked condescending. "Where's Dimitri? I have to ask him why he's still going ahead with the wedding. Hasn't Zachary or whatever his name is already run away? Isn't he just embarrassing himself with this?""Mr. Hart did indeed run away, but we've brought him back now." Heather gestured toward Brooklyn and said, "Someone's asking about you, Mr. Hart."Brooklyn looked at Lorraine innocently but soon realized that wasn't the right expression to have. So, he put on a contemptuous look and asked, "What do you want?"Lorraine looked at him and came closer. Then, she asked snobbily, "Did you already run off? Why'd you come back?""I came back because I wanted to. What's it to you?" Brooklyn stood

Dimitri only felt like Brooklyn was too worried about these things and overly cautious. He didn't know what the latter had experienced to become like this—he hadn't been like this in the past."You're being too cautious." He stroked the mark on the back of Brooklyn's neck. "You're Zachary Hart. You need to be more haughty.""But I can't." Brooklyn looked at him cautiously. If he were the actual Zachary Hart, he could be as haughty as he wanted. But he wasn't—he was Brooklyn York, the poor kid who lived at the underground level."We've arrived, Mr. Wood," the driver said. They pulled up outside the Hart residence.Dimitri led Brooklyn out of the car. The Hart residence's door wasn't like the Wood family's—it was just a regular door and wasn't as lavish and grandiose as the one at the Wood family's estate. In fact, it looked just like a house that belonged to a regular family."Welcome, Mr. Wood." The butler, Alan Smith, stood at the door. He didn't greet Brooklyn. Instead, he nodde

Brooklyn helped Dimitri upstairs to Zachary's room. He was still dazed when they arrived as Jason's words reverberated in his mind. He could imagine how many nasty and hurtful things Zachary would've said to Dimitri in the past.He glanced surreptitiously at Dimitri, thinking the latter had to be deeply in love with Zachary."What are you thinking?" Dimitri only needed a single look at Brooklyn to tell something was bothering him. "Why does your mind keep wandering recently?""There's just something troubling me." Brooklyn sat before him and looked at him seriously. "I… You…"He parted his lips several times but just couldn't get the words out. Ultimately, he said, "Will you always love me?"Dimitri didn't expect to hear that. He patted Brooklyn's cheek with a smile and asked, "Why do you suddenly feel so insecure? Has something happened recently?""No, I just keep getting weird dreams lately. So many things happen in them that I can't stop thinking about them." Brooklyn looked d

"That's enough. We're all family here; what's the point of arguing?" Martha spoke up. "We don't mean anything with this gathering today, Zachary. We just wanted to ask Dimitri when the wedding is being held.""Huh?" Brooklyn was lost. Hadn't the Harts told him to delay the wedding for as long as possible when they'd spoken to him upstairs? Why was Martha suddenly bringing this up?He looked at the people before him, not knowing what to say.Kenneth went along with Martha and said, "We can't just drag things out forever. Zachary might be a little spoiled, but the Hart family is considered affluent and reputable. The wedding has to be a grand one.""I've instructed my secretary to keep an eye on the arrangements this whole time—I intend to have an engagement party at the beginning of next month," Dimitri said. He held Brooklyn's hand and asked, "What do you think, Zachary?"What could Brooklyn think? Could he not think about it?"I…" He glanced at Kenneth. The latter gave him a poi

Brooklyn later realized why Dimitri had agreed to let him do whatever he wanted that night—Dimitri wasn't even home at night."Where's he gone?" Brooklyn asked Heather.She shook her head with a smile. "I might be Mr. Wood's secretary, but he doesn't need to keep me updated on his whereabouts.""Oh." Brooklyn was disappointed. He silently cursed Dimitri for being a liar. He returned to the room, thinking about watching some TV, which was about the only thing he could do.It was rare for him to have so much free time that he had no idea what to do now that he didn't have anything to rush.As he stared at the TV, he couldn't help feeling a little lonely. Did all the children of affluent families lead such boring lives?Brooklyn suddenly understood why the upper crust liked picking on people from the underground level. They didn't have anything better to do and had to look for something to pass the time.He held a throw pillow and watched the film playing on TV. Just then, a maid k