2025-02-17 01:17:29“Hi, Delma,” Melvyn, the handsome blonde man, gave her the bouquet of variegated flowers. “You look extra bright today.”
“What are the flowers for?” Delma asked, her voice slightly cold and disinterested.
“I heard that you caught the man you were looking for,” Melvy let out a reserved smile. “So I’m here to congratulate you. Can I see him?”
“You will see him when the time is right,” Delma replied, keeping eye-contact with him without blinking.
Melvyn forced out a smile. He looked at the treadmill. “I told you plenty of times to fast and slim down, but you never listened. Now, you’re trying to get thin. What changed? Is the new guy making you do this?”
“You’re handsome, Melvyn. You’re a one in a million. There’s no doubt about that,” Delma openly said as she always had. “But you’re my cousin. We grew up together. I just… don’t have any romantic feelings toward you.”
“But I have feelings for you,” he stated, with his hands in his pockets.
Delma rolled her eyes. “Why don’t you tell a more believable lie? When I look at myself in the mirror, I’m not able to love myself. So, how can you love me?”
“It’s not about how you look outside, Delma,” Melvyn retorted. “For me, it’s more about your character. You’re unlike any other woman I know. And our families are made for each other. If we marry, then only good things will happen.”
Delma didn’t say anything.
“Let me take a look around the mansion,” Melvyn said and walked away.
Delma looked at her assistant. “Don’t let him meet Jake’s family.”
“Got it,” the female assistant nodded and rushed away.
Delma slightly frowned.
The first time Jake ran away, Melvyn didn’t know who put the million dollar reward on Jake’s head.
However, after Jake was caught, Melvyn came to know that Delma was behind it.
So, Delma was sure that Melvyn would be itching to meet and talk to Jake and do anything to get him to walk away from Delma.
Melvyn might even kill if Jake were to show resistance.
But right now, Jake wasn’t showing any interest in Delma, so she was worried that Melvyn might manipulate Jake and play with Delma’s emotions. He was certainly capable of doing that and so much more.
Just as she predicted, Melvyn kept roaming all around the mansion, but he didn’t see Jake or his family members.
This was also within Melvyn’s expectations.
“Where is she keeping him?” Melvyn wondered. “If I can just meet him once… I’m confident I will persuade him with money.”
Melvyn was also filthy rich. His family was not quite as rich as the Hamilton family, but he still got so much money he didn't know what to do with it.
“I have to find him quickly. I also have to find a way into Delma’s heart. If she’s with me, I can sit on top of the world. She’s worthy to be my queen and sit next to me.”
He clenched his fists in resolve, and faint black vapors engulfed his fists, releasing so much heat the flowers in the vase wilted.
Somewhere else in the city.
Jake and Anne had come out to tour the city in a car.
“Are you sure you can roam like this? What if people recognize you from the reward poster?” she asked.
“Even you couldn’t recognize me until I told you who I am,” Jake said, chortling. “So, I don’t think you need to worry about people recognizing me.”
“W-Well, you got a point.”
A few seconds passed as she aimlessly drove through the streets.
Jake was just observing everything through the window.
Something definitely changed in him after the system chose him.
He felt the world not as a whole, but as a collection of interlocking parts, each with its own weakness, its own breaking point. He could see the architecture of anything, from the simplest machine to the most complex spell. He could feel the wind coming and going and its speed and the directions it was taking. He could hear the voices of many people and tell their location from far away.
Every experience felt new, enhanced and profound than ever before.
A whole new world has surely opened up to him.
“So, where are we exactly going?” Anne asked. “Oh, by the way, I should tell you this beforehand. I don’t have the money to spend for you.”
“What?” Jake was shocked. “I’m a runaway, girl. You expect me to carry my debit card with me or what?”
Anne stopped the car. “Then let’s get back home. We’ll start dating when ‘you’ have the money.”
“Just take some money from your sister,” Jake suggested.
“You are the man. You should be spending the money on a date,” Anne retorted.
“I don’t care who spends money on a date,” Jake casually replied. “So, when we go home, you are going to ask your sister for some money.”
“I won’t,” Anne quickly said.
Jake put his hand on her thigh and rubbed it a little, making her jerk in pleasure. “You are gonna do it.”
Anne removed his hand and smiled. “I’m not that easy, Jake. You’re going to earn the money yourself if you want to date me! And that’s final!”
Jake was surprised by her grit, which reminded him of his sister. Both Prisha and Anne were petite and innocent-looking, but they also were very hard to deal with.
Just then, a voice rang in Jake’s mind.
And he received his first mission from the shedding system.
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