Chapter-Six:
Meanwhile, back at the grand Sterling Mansion, Zane Sterling asks Sierra—rather, Cynthiya—for her hand in marriage. In response, Cynthiya bursts out into a fit of wild, hysterical laughter.
Everyone in the room begins to look at her as if she has lost her mind.
"Forgive me! It's just... sometimes I hear the strangest things, and I swear I just heard something incredibly bizarre right now".
Zane Sterling offers Cynthiya a sweet, disarming smile and says, "Don't tell me you heard that I want to marry you?"
"What?! Yes, exactly! That is precisely what I heard!"
"Good, because that is exactly what I said".
What? Cynthiya’s laughter instantly morphs into blinding rage. She glares at Zane Sterling—the breathtakingly handsome, ultra-wealthy heir—and begins to curse him like a cold-blooded killer.
"You bastard! You absolute piece of trash! Who do you think you are? Did you honestly think that just because I paid you a few compliments, I’d actually marry you?"
She lets out a sharp gasp. "Have you even looked at your own face? Though, even if you do look good, it doesn't mean a damn thing to me!"
Closing the distance between them, Cynthiya drops her voice to a cold whisper. "Drop the case quietly. Otherwise, you clearly don't know who you're dealing with. I will bring a hell upon you that you couldn't even fathom".
Suddenly, Zane wraps a powerful arm around Cynthiya’s waist, violently pulling her flush against his chest. With his free hand, he gently, almost tenderly, slides a hairpin out of her hair.
Cynthiya freezes entirely, paralyzed by his touch.
Leaning down until his lips brush against her ear, Zane murmurs in a low, dangerous velvet tone, "Very well. So you want me to drop the case. But I never make a losing deal. I believe your hairpin is more than enough to compensate for my loss. And oh, perhaps you aren't aware—once I set my mind on something, I always get it. In a few days' time, everyone will be addressing you as 'Mrs. Sterling'".
Hearing this, Cynthiya violently shoves Zane back, clapping both hands over her ears as terror seizes her, and flees the room.
This is madness... that man is truly dangerous! Cynthiya mutters frantically to herself as she climbs into her car.
"Did your meeting go well with Mr. Sterling, Miss?" her secretary inquires.
But Cynthiya is already under the intoxicating spell of Zane Sterling. Then again, who could possibly resist the charm of such a devastatingly handsome man? But alas, I wasn't even inhabiting my own body to experience it.
Concurrently, back in this world, Leo sits in his private bar. He isn't merely sitting; perched on a lavish leather sofa, he holds an expensive cigarette between his fingers. Surrounding him is a perimeter of imposing, heavily-built men clad in high-end, tailored suits. And on the floor right in front of him, battered and drenched in their own blood, lie the three pathetic bastards who had dared to harass me.
"If you value your lives, you will remember absolutely nothing about who beat you to this pulp, what happened to you, or the fact that you ever laid eyes on our boss," one of the bodyguards barks, his voice echoing off the walls.
"Teacher Han," Leo calls out smoothly.
"Yes, Boss".
"What on earth made you think I had any intention of leaving them alive? tell me".
The moment Leo utters those words, the three wretched men groveling on the floor begin to beg desperately for their lives.
"Please, forgive us!"
"We were ordered to do this by someone else! We are telling the truth, please just let us go!"
The trio trembles violently, their voices cracking with sheer terror.
"If that is the case, I will make your lives such a living hell that the next time you cross my path, you will beg me for death instead of mercy," Leo says, a terrifying smile playing on his lips while an icy, murderous wrath burns in his eyes.
He tosses his expensive cigarette aside and turns to walk away.
"Clean up this trash".
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