RISE OF THE DRAGON HEIR: from amnesia to ascension

chapter 23

Paige watched as Victoria walked away from the place with a smile on her face. The moment he was sure that she was not aware he had come in a car, he kicked the engine to life and began following her.

He couldn't help the smile that formed across his face, nor the loud thumping in his chest. He had been mesmerised by her beauty and couldn't help but fall in love with her at first sight.

Yes! At first sight—

The day she had bumped into him at the lawyer's office, he had been captured by her beauty immediately.

He couldn't describe the way he felt, but he knew that he had to see her again and he couldn't deny that he had fate on his side, because she was the last person he thought he was going to see while he was at his favourite activity.

Paige cursed inwardly when he saw that he was approaching a stop.

"I don't have all day for this!" He said angrily to himself. He badly wanted to alight from his car and make the rest of his journey on foot but he couple afford to be seen by Victoria, he didn't want to give her the idea that he was already stalking her when he barely knew her yet.

He honked for the umpteenth time at the stop— knowing that wouldn't make the cars in front of him get into motion because the traffic light was still on red.

He let out a loud sigh and slapped his hand across his forehead—looking ahead to see how far Victoria had gotten.

Gladness coursed through his being seeing that she was just a distance away from the traffic stop and since he was driving, he could catch up to her at any time.

He looked up to see the light had fallen on yellow. He sat up in his seat and clutched the steering wheel tightly while he waited impatiently for the light to fall on green.

"Come on, come on, I don't have all the time in the world!" He let out again to himself.

He realised for the first time since he had gotten into his car that the windows of his car had been wound down and he had forgotten to wind them back up before he hit the road.

He looked to the side of the road and caught a man squinting at him through his own car at the other end of the road—obviously trying to make out if he truly was the one.

It didn't take a lot of people much effort before they could recognise him in the crowd, he was not as powerful as the Saint Dragon of the Dragon clan had been but he also exuded an aura that could make men shiver at just the mere mention of his name.

Paige rolled his eyes into the back of his head as he waited until the tinted windows were fully closed. Now that the windows were closed, he wondered how many people had recognised him while he was driving.

He didn't mingle with the ordinary people much so the majority of people in the city did not have a clear image of what he looked like, they only knew that he was a true force to reckon with.

Paige resumed following Victoria until she came to a stop in front of a house.

Something about the building of the house struck a familiar cord in Paige's memory but he couldn't place where he had seen his particular type of building before because he was sure that he had not been here before, even the path that led to this house was not familiar to him.

Paige's car was parked just afar from the building. He didn't want to be noticed just yet, so the area he had parked his car in was so discreet that it wouldn't have given him out if Victoria were to turn back around.

Paige watched and waited as Victoria knocked on the gates fiercely.

From where he was, he could see that the hue and colour in Victoria's cheeks had disappeared and was replaced by an unpleasant expression.

"So this is where she lives!" Paige noted subconsciously to himself, placing the weight of his head on the back of his left palm.

He waited until he saw the gates open up and a man dressed in black shorts with a striped shirt walked out, yelling into Victoria's face.

Paige immediately became unsettled, he grabbed both edges of his seat and sat up, his brows furrowing into confusion as he watched the scene unfold in front of him.

Who was that man and why was he yelling at such a beautiful woman like Victoria.

Paige tried to make out what the man was saying, but he couldn't hear even a single thing from where he was.

He then tried to read the man's lips. It was moments like this his talent came in handy. Paige could read people's lips and tell what they were saying without having to be close to them.

"Where the hell have you been, Victoria?" The man's lips read.

"You're a married woman now, and you do not need to be walking around ever so carelessly...." He added.

Paige felt his heart leap out of his chest. Victoria was married? And to such a horrible man like him?!

His face contorted into a deep frown—watching the man continuing to yell at Victoria.

Paige was enraged and fought the urge to alight from his car and give that man a piece of his mind.

So what if he was married to Victoria? That didn't give him any right to speak to Victoria that way.

Something inside Paige unsettled him, but he couldn't pin point, of it was the fact that Victoria was already married or she was married to such a terrible man who did not deserve her.

He watched in anger as the man yanked her through the gates. Paige nodded his head slowly, taking in every inch of the man's features.

He swallowed his saliva and tried to shake off what he had just seen before he kicked the engine of his car to life and reversed it back into the road.