Aria froze for a moment. She parted her lips to say something, but slowly closed it again. She repeated this action for two more times before Ryan sniggered.“Do you know what the time is? Grandmother may have other things to say to us, and even if she doesn’t, she needs to go to sleep early every night. Hurry up and answer the question!” “Are you being silent because you have nothing to tell us? Have you even be going to any of those dates or did you let grandmother’s good intention go to waste?” Mia butted in with a scoff. “Aria has been diligently doing as grandmother asked her to by going to the dates arranged for her. Don’t you dare accuse her of being disobedient!” Dean glared hostilely at them. Ryan leisurely leaned back on his seat, the corners of his lips curling up into a smug smile. “Is that so? Then why is she so quiet? Mia didn’t hesitate to tell everyone how her dates were going.” “Only a guilty person will remain quiet when they are asked to report and they don’t ha
The drive back to the house was silent except for Dean’s constant cussing from the backseat as he played an online shooting game on his phone. Leon drove and Aria sat at the front passenger seat while Dean sat at the backseat of the car with Emma. “Hey, are you an idiot? Didn’t you see a sniper on the roof!” “Goodness, did I get paired with an amateur? Can't you aim properly? You play like an old woman!” “Are you stupid? If you keep stepping out of your cover, the sniper on the roof will take you out! If you don't know what to do, just stay hidden then delete your player account after this game!” The car came to a stop in front of their house and Leon got out of the car. Before he could walk around the car to open the door for Aria, she had already gotten out. So he got into the car again to park properly while they walked into the house.Aria dragged her feet against the ground as she walked into the house. “Hey, isn’t it enough that you don’t work, what do you think you’re doi
In the Larol Family Residence, Kevin Larol was pushed into the living room in a wheelchair by one of their maids then she left immediately. Kevin was putting on a blue hospital gown and had a big bandage around his head. There were three plasters on his face that covered up the cuts which appeared when Leon stubbed his face with his foot. Both of his fingers down to his wrist were covered with bandaged and his eyes were bloodshot from the throbbing pain from his fingers whenever he moved. In the living room were two men. One was an elderly man who was in his late 60s while the other was a young man who was just a few years older than Kevin. “One man did this to you? What were you doing while he did?” The young man huffed spitefully. Kevin clenched his jaw tightly and glared at him fiercely. “Jeff Larol, how many times do you want me to tell you he attacked me from behind?!” It was simply shamefully for Kevin to admit he was really beaten by a fellow man. Worse still, by a lowl
The bus stopped for five seconds before speeding off again. Leon was no longer there. In his place was the grocery bag he had been holding which had fallen on the ground with half of the things inside spilled out. The bus drove into an alley and Leon was roughly pushed out of it blindfolded, then two men alighted from it and pushed him down to the floor, his back against a wall. They had tied his hands behind him inside the van so he wouldn’t struggle so much with them. While he could’ve easily escaped from them, he didn’t want to get into a fight in the middle of the road. Furthermore, he had decided that Kevin Larol wasn’t worth keeping around. For some reason, Aria couldn’t recall what happened on her date last night. She was so worried about it that she couldn’t sleep the whole night. Then she woke up and went to work as soon as day broke even though the day was Sunday, just because of how troubled she was. If she bumped into him one of these days, it was very likely that her
It wasn’t that he couldn’t just yank it off, but he didn’t want to risk getting a mark on his hands. That’d only make Aria worried as she would think her family bullied him again. Kevin’s first reaction on seeing his hands were free was to instinctively retreat behind the bulky men he hired as an emergency warning instantly went off in his head that he was in danger. Now this was the terrific voice of the man who had broken his fingers and trampled down at him at the guesthouse.His body also reacted, trembling on its own as Leon raised his cold eyes to look at him.However, Kevin suddenly burst into a mocking laughter. He laughed like a maniac for several seconds to his heart’s content before he stopped and sniggered, “Hey, do you take me to be a fool?” “I knew the talks about you being an idiot was a lie, so I refused to believe them and hired these guys. Yes, look at them very well.” “They are not as weak as the other guys from the guesthouse. In fact, one of them can take down
Kevin's eyes shook in horror and he subconsciously stepped backward. Leon had his fingers wrapped around the throats of the bulky men as he squeezed the life out of them. From where he stood, Kevin saw the men wheezing as they desperately slapped Leon's hand to get him to release his grip on them all to no avail. "H-how is that possible?" Kevin stuttered fearfully. Leon's dark eyes on him paralyzed his entire body with fear causing him to forget how to move. Leon shifted his eyes to them and spat out icily, "Professionals? Yes. But you can never compare to someone who was trained to defend himself from the young age of 2 up until when he was casted out. Think about that in your next life if you get any. Now, get lost!" Krack!He applied pressure on their throats and crushed their windpipes, instantly killing them before he tossed their limp body aside. People like them who would hurt the less privileged just because they were paid to do it didn't deserve to stay alive. And fro
Leon went back to the grocery store to get another set of groceries. Because Aria would get notified if he bought the same thing with the card she gave him, he paid with the allowance she gave him every month to get whatever he wanted.Then he walked out of the store, hailed a taxi and got in. When he got home, he found the door ajar. Dean was in the living room with two of his friends as they played an online shooting game with the TV. “I didn’t know you had a brother, Dean.” One of his friends murmured seeing Leon walk in. Dean briefly tore his eyes away from his game to see who he was talking about and snorted. “I don’t have a brother. That’s my sister’s husband. He looks normal, but he’s an idiot who thinks like a child.” “How is it I’ve never seen him before?” The second boy asked, pausing his game to look at Leon as well. “He’s always up in their room or working around the house. Besides, my mother banned him from loitering around the living room when we have visitors.” Dea
Grant gathered every member of the family into the living room of the Larol residence. He sat in the middle of the room while the rest of the family surrounded him.There was a pin-drop silence in the room as no one wanted to do anything that’d offend him. But after a while, someone voiced out cautiously, with carefully chosen words, “Family head, I hear it was a lowlife who dealt us this tragic blow. We shouldn’t take this lightiy!” “Kevin was your beloved son, are we just going to sit on our hands while that lowlife makes fun of the Larol family?” Another person chipped in. “No, we shouldn’t. The other families are already getting informed of what happened to us. Once they find out we were humiliated by a lowlife and are doing nothing about it, we’ll become a laughingstock to the people of Wentworth.” The third person butted in as well. Gavin Larol clenched his hand into a fist and raised his bloodshot eyes to glare at them, “I’m trying to think here, shut your damn mouths!” O