Rejected as a Commoner, Wanted as an Heir

Failed Plan

~Joan~

Rhodes came in from the kitchen, handed me the bar of chocolates I requested. He'd been acting as my care taker and guard at the same time, also helped to keep my father away these few days. That doesn't mean we got any closer whatsoever. He still remains cold, indifferent and so much annoying. My father did reach him severally to ask about my where about but he kept telling him he knows nothing about it. He really kept to his promise of keeping me away from my father for the mean time. We both had thought my father would take a break after hearing about Audrey Hepburn and how he tried to kill Christian Forbes because of his inheritance but the old man never gives up. We made a deal. He asked me to leave his house and promised that if I do so, I wouldn't be disturbed about arranged marriages or dates whatsoever. Fuck the reason he's not keeping to his own promises.

I munched on the chocolate bar, the blanket wrapped tightly around my body.

'Is it cold today? Or it's just me