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Chapter 2 His Very Life

  • Twelve years had passed in the twinkling of an eye.
  • Isabelle Summers, Erin’s bestie, casually slapped an envelope that had been folded into a heart shape onto Erin’s textbook. “Here.”
  • Erin rolled her eyes and pushed the envelope aside. Raising her exquisite little face to squint at Isabelle, she asked with a snort, “Say it. What have you accepted from the guy in exchange for doing this?”
  • Uh…
  • Isabella smiled with embarrassment. “Well, it’s nothing, actually. It’s just breakfast for a month. Ha, haha…”
  • The corner of Erin’s mouth twitched. “You’re the eldest young lady of the Summers Family, yet you allowed yourself to be bought off with only a month’s worth of breakfast. Can’t you have higher aspirations?”
  • Isabelle shrugged. “Which family has an eldest young lady who has to earn her keep by doing odd jobs?”
  • Erin frowned, and her voice became cold. “Did they not give you an allowance again this month?”
  • Isabelle rested her chin on Erin’s arm while looking at the latter with a groan. She said, “Let’s not talk about this. Our school will be organizing an autumn outing next week. You didn’t join the previous two autumn outings, but it’s already our last year in high school right now. Are you going to miss the last autumn outing as well?”
  • Erin stared at Isabelle for a while before suddenly letting out a sigh. “This isn’t up to me because I have to go back and ask my superior for permission. I can’t decide things for myself.”
  • Isabelle patted Erin’s head while looking at her sympathetically. “Poor girl,” she said.
  • “Go away.” Erin knocked off Isabelle’s hand.
  • Carrying her school bag, Erin got out of the car and walked to the villa in Coral Pavilion while her head was lowered in contemplation.
  • Bump!
  • Suddenly, she bumped her head into a ‘stone wall,’ causing her to cover her head and cry in pain. “Aaaah…”
  • “Oh, dear! Are you alright, Erin?” Despite his solicitous and apologetic words, the person who spoke didn’t sound apologetic at all. Instead, there was a hint of amusement in his voice.
  • Erin raised her big eyes—which were as beautiful as rock crystals—and glared indignantly at the person while clenching her teeth. “You don’t know how to respect yourself despite your age!”
  • With that, she pulled a long face and huffed angrily while walking toward the villa.
  • Leo Holden stood in place while saying merrily to Erin from behind, “I was just joking with you, Erin. Please don’t be angry, okay?”
  • As soon as he finished his sentence, Erin suddenly paused.
  • Startled, Leo looked at Erin, who slowly looked back at him with a beautiful smiling face instead of the long face she wore just now.
  • Leo’s eyelids twitched, and a bad feeling welled up spontaneously in his heart.
  • “Mr. Holden, you probably don’t know that Uncle Arthur will be back tonight.” Erin looked at Leo’s instantly pale face with a bright smile. She continued, “When Uncle Arthur comes back, I’ll certainly tell him about the meticulous care you’ve taken of me over the past few days when he was away. I’ll ask him to thank you for taking care of me, Mr. Holden.”
  • Leo felt a chill running down his spine as he listened to Erin’s words.
  • Who in Wingston City didn’t know that Erin, the teenage girl with the surname Harvey, was a certain someone’s very life—so much so that no one was ever allowed to even touch her?
  • Judging from the extent of that person’s cruelty and viciousness, he’ll absolutely cripple me if he finds out that I bullied the person dearest to his heart!
  • Shuddering at the thought, Leo immediately put on a smile and trotted up to Erin before massaging her shoulders obsequiously. “Erin, I have always been nice to you, haven't I?”
  • Erin nodded seriously before pointing at her reddened forehead with the same level of seriousness. “Indeed, you’ve been ‘very’ nice to me, Mr. Holden,” she said, laying stress on the word ‘very.’
  • With that, she knocked Leo’s hand off her shoulder with a half-smile, turned around, and stepped into the villa with her back straightened.
  • It’s perhaps because she grew up beside that person that she’s as vengeful as he is!
  • Leo wished he could put aside his sense of shame and cry as he looked at Erin’s haughty figure from behind.
  • It was nearly 11.00 PM.
  • When Becky Kay came out from the kitchen, she saw Erin still sitting on the sofa with her arms around her delicately fair and fine legs. Resting her chin on her knees, she kept staring eagerly at the door with her intelligent eyes.
  • Becky gave an inward sigh as she walked up to Erin.
  • Erin withdrew her gaze from the door to glance at Becky before shifting her eyes back to the door. “Go and get some sleep, Mrs. Kay.”
  • “Young Master probably isn’t coming back today since he hasn’t come home until now. You have to go to school tomorrow, Miss Erin; stop waiting and go back to your room to sleep, alright?” advised Becky.
  • Erin shook her head slightly. “Uncle Arthur would never break his promise to me; he’ll definitely come back tonight since he promised me. Just ignore me and go to sleep, Mrs. Kay.”
  • Becky whispered, “God only knows how concerned Young Master will be when he comes back and sees that you stay up so late to wait for him.”
  • Erin didn’t make a sound; nobody knew if she had heard Becky’s words or not.
  • Becky stared at her for a while. Perhaps thinking that she couldn’t persuade her, she shook her head in resignation and walked to her room.
  • The thunderous sound of a car engine was heard outside a villa at 3.00 AM. Soon after that, the sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground could be heard from the door.
  • Hearing the sound of the car engine, Becky opened the door with an overcoat draped over her shoulders and came out to see the tall and muscular man coming in through the door. She immediately walked up to him, took the black suit jacket hanging from the crook of his arm, and hung it on the coat stand at one side.
  • The man’s shrewd and sharp black eyes swept the room indifferently before it fell on the sleeping young lady curled up on the sofa.