Despised: Soon-To-Be-A-Billionaire's Dark Revenge

Chapter 14 FOUND OUT

‘Don’t come to my house without telling me,’ Eric said, taking a space on the settee.

‘Oh, stop it, Erico,’ Maria said. Her voice was like a thunder in the quiet night and I had a feeling she was waiting for Eric to open his mouth. ‘Do you think I wanted to come and stay in this stuffy room if my uncle was in town?’

‘Don’t shout in my house,’ Eric retorted. ‘I am a responsible person; don’t make my neighbors think I am not.’

Maria laughed, waved her phone at Eric as if he was a clown whose act had backfired. ‘This is not a house; this is a room. A room; a stuffy, little, poor man’s room; that’s all it is.’

Eric got up and walked to the edge of the bed. ‘Get out of my house...my room. Get out or I will throw you out.’

‘Eric,’ I said. ‘Take it easy. Take it easy.’

Eric turned to me, eyes blazing with naked fury. ‘Stay out of this, Paul. You don’t know her; she is a trouble maker. She is the devil’s sister, that’s who she is.’

Maria tilted her head and gave a loud, unperturbed laugh. ‘Yo