Chp 22 - Ghoul Bride
Author: Kabirat Aleem
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

“Why are you shouting at me?! I am not the one pressurizing you, am I?” Sophia shouted, then in her customary damsel in distress display, she made her lips tremble slightly. Her doe eyes shimmered with tears as she made her voice syrupy. “Do you know how much pressure I am going through as well, love? How much scorn do I have to endure from everyone? They are calling me the ghoul bride! Have you seen the tabloids?”

She flicked back the tail of her long, shimmery gown when she saw that Matteo had stopped pacing and turned her back on him, fully expecting him to come to her, of course.

Matteo let out an infuriated sigh and his response surprised her “Pressure? Do you call that pressure? Do you know how much my father now detested me? Do you have any idea what I have lost? All because of you?”

“Because of me?” she squealed as she turned back to him, her coy look forgotten as anger welled in her.

Who did he think he was? The bastard. Did he think that he was even worthy of touching her?
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