Chapter 7

• The next morning, the man who had hardly closed his eyes rose on his feet to the sound of someone knocking on his bedroom door. He looked at the girl that was sleeping peacefully on his bed, walked to the door and checked out the visitor through the peephole before opening the door.
• He slightly opened the door and stood between it.
• When the woman that was knocking on the door saw him, she smiled wholeheartedly and tried to hug him, but when she saw the look on his face, she stood on her ground and said, "Longest time, Brother."
• Without showing any sign of affection, the man glared down at her and said, "What are you doing here?"
• With the woman's smile still on her face, she replied. "To welcome you back. You were gone by the time we got there. "
• The man said nothing.
• "Dad also sent me to you," the woman added.
• "I have nothing to do with him." The man said.
• "He said he wants you back home."
• The man's eyes narrowed, his jaw tightened, and his lips became the thinnest of thin lines for some seconds before he spoke. I don't have a home. I have no family. "
• "Ricardo..." the woman called and trailed off when she heard someone yawning inside his room.
• She gave the man, whom she had called Ricardo, a questioning look and asked. "Do you have someone inside?"
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• Lisa sluggishly stretched herself and yawned loudly. She looked around the room and realized that she wasn't in her own room.
• At first, she wanted to jump out of bed and readied herself for operation fight or flight, but when her eyes landed on the back of a tall man that was standing by the door, obviously talking to someone, last night's incident came into her mind and she relaxed.
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• "Do you have someone inside?" The woman asked Ricardo curiously.
• "Not someone you have to worry about, Susan," Ricardo replied.
• "All right," Susan said with a nod, despite the fact that she was still curious about the identity of the woman who was inside his room. She looked down at a bunch of flowers in her hand before stretching out her hand. "This is from mom. She said I should give it to you."
• Ricardo ignored the flowers in Susan's hand and said "Tell Dad that he should stop trying to meet me. Even though I appreciate your visit, I want it to be your first and last. "
• Susan looked at him sadly and called. "Ricardo"
• Ricardo looked at her with nothing but coldness and said, "I mean it, it's either you guys stop showing up or I move out of the country."
• "Ricardo"
• Ricardo took a step back and closed the door.
• "Ricardo," Lisa thought, with a beautiful smile on her face. 
• Lisa's stubborn part jumped up in joy and screamed. "We did it!"
• As soon as Ricardo closed the door, Lisa closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. She watched as Ricardo walked to a couch under her lashes and eagerly awaited for him to sit on the couch so that she would be able to see his face.
• Ricardo sat on the couch, and Lisa almost gasped when her eyes made contact with the man-god that was sitting on a couch a few meters away from her. 
• "Now, I understand," Lisa's subconscious said.
• Ricardo was blessed with a long, pointed nose, a thin jawline, bushy eyebrows, thin pink lips, and sandy, blonde hair.
• Ricardo's handsomeness wasn't the type that Lisa had come across, either on television or physically. In fact, Lisa had only come across people with Ricardo's handsomeness in some romance novels that she had read.
• Wow. She thought, but when Ricardo, who was looking into space, suddenly tilted his head in her direction, she realized that she had said it out.
• "You're awake," he said.
• Lisa swallowed her saliva and recoiled in horror when her eyes connected with his deep blue eyes, which were full of nothing but a blazing fire that was ready to burn down anybody that dared to challenge him.
• She instantly looked away from him and sighed heavily. Some seconds ago, she had crowned him 'the most handsome man of all time' but after meeting those eyes that sparkled with dangerous light, she began reconsidering.
• "The most dangerous-handsome man on Earth," her stubborn part said, as it came out of its hiding place and took control.
• Her stubborn part was ready to challenge this strange man who could make her shiver in fear without even blinking an eye.
• Lisa suddenly made eye contact with him. Her stubborn part was trying to be in control of the situation, and she said "Who was that woman?"
• Ricardo's eyebrows knitted together in disbelief, and Lisa felt a thousand daggers on her skin.
• An ordinary Lisa or any other girl would have crouched in fear, but Lisa's stubborn part just shrugged it all off as if it was nothing while still maintaining eye contact with Ricardo. She won't give in to his threat. 
• For some unknown reason, Ricardo gave her a smile that didn't quite reach his face for a microsecond before his eyes turned back to coldness.
• "Someone that is none of your business," he replied, as he rose to his feet and glared down at Lisa. "I will soon be on my way out. Put on your clothes," he added and pointed his second finger at something on the bed.
• With a perplexed look on Lisa's face, she followed his finger and saw her gown carelessly tossed on one side of the bed.
• "What?" Lisa's mumbled as she hurriedly used her hands to scan her body under the blanket, and lo and behold, she was naked with only her bra and panty on her.
• Lisa turned pale from shock, and even her stubborn part couldn't do anything. She raised her eyelids and looked at the man, who wasn't even moved by what was happening.
• Don't... tell me... something happened... " She stuttered.
• Lisa saw a hint of a smile on Ricardo's face, and that worsened the situation. She tried to swallow her saliva but wasn't able to because her throat had suddenly dried up.
• Ricardo returned to the couch he had vacated a few minutes before, sat down like the man-god he was, and said "Like what exactly?"
• With a million questions going through Lisa's head, she tilted her head in his direction and said, "Explain to me why I am naked."
• With Ricardo's back rested on the backrest, he crossed his legs and rested his right hand on the armrest. "Point of correction, Lisa, you are not naked because you still have your bra and panty on."
• Lisa gasped as a thousand imaginative thoughts of what might have happened some hours ago filled her head.
• She bit her bottom lip in regret and thought. If only I had listened to my subconscious.
• In order to get things straight, Lisa tried to calm herself down by breathing in large amounts of oxygen, and when she believed that she was calm enough, she tilted her head in the direction of the gown, pointed her finger at it, and said, "Why is my gown over there?"