💐THE
💐 PLAYBOY’S
NEW MISSTRESS 💐
💔Her vengeful soul 💔
✍️✍️CHAPTER TWENTY TWO. 2️⃣2️⃣
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GENRE: Romance, Fantasy, &Drama
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Settlings: California, United States. 21st century
💐The fall of a Heroine💐
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Charles kept pondering with thoughts that Violet will be get herself into trouble, so he went to hangout somewhere close to the school anticipating her call.
“I hope she calls as promised,” he thought, when a girl who entered the restaurant suddenly caught his attention.
“Oh, she is just my type,” he muttered, and winked at her. Their gaze met and he smiled at her, and she smiled back.
“Target gotten. College girls are really the best,”he thought, and she walked up to his table.
He was engrossed in a conversation with her when his phone rang, and he picked it up immediately he saw it was Violet.
📲*What do you want?*
📲*Vee?!* he shouted, and stood up immediately.
“Is there a problem?” the girl with him asked creasing his wrist and he jabbed her hands away before running out.
He drove off immediately and it was easy for him to find her because she was in the garden close to the parking lot.
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Violet/Carolyn gently released her hand from Charles, looking at Ivy who demanded an explanation.
“Oh, it’s Ivy. It’s nice to meet you again. It’s been a while,” Charles said, and embraced her.
“Yeah, a while… I never knew that you were close to Carolyn,”
“Oh, yeah. We have a peculiar relationship somehow,”
“Oh… peculiar?”
“Hey! You! You think you can run from me?!” a man shouted, aiming at Carolyn— the man who bullied her the other day.
“Vee, I think he is coming for you,” Charles said.
“What? Me? Who the h£ll is he?” she whined as he got closer, and Charles held her hand.
“Who are you?” the man asked, walking closer to her.
“Someone who won’t let you harm her,”
“Did you cast a spell on him or something? You’re coming with me now!” the man said, and grabbed her hand.
“Let me go! I’m going nowhere with you. Who the b£ll are you?” she shouted.
“You’re asking me who I am? You must’ve lost your mind!” he lashed and wanted to slap her but Charles held his hand.
“She asked you should let her go, and she said she doesn’t know you. Why don’t you leave quietly?”
“Shut your mouth! Who do you think you are to interfere in family matters?”
“Family, what?!” Charles and Violet shouted, and their gaze met.
“You are coming with me now!” the man shouted, and Violet shook her head looking at Charles.
“Even if you are her family, you have no rights to drag her with you against her own will,”
“Who do you think you are? Carolyn! Come now while I’m being nice!”
“No! I’m not coming with you!”
“Even if Cherry is suffering now because of you?”
“Who the h£ll is Cherry?” Violet grumbled, biting her lips and Charles tightened his grip on her.
“If you want to take her, you will have to get through me, trust me you don’t want that,”
“Who do you think you are?!”
“Me? I’m Charles Hewlett,” with that, he dragged Violet away.
“You will regret this Carolyn!” he shouted at their retreating back.
“He seems to care about Carolyn a lot. That must be his style,” Ivy thought, staring at their retreating back.
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Charles and Violet entered the car and was finally able to breathe properly.
“I thought you said she has no live! What’s that? Her brother or her uncle?”
“How would I know that?” she grumbled.
“You better know! Because if I wasn’t there, he would have dragged you away!”
“I couldn’t thank you properly for—“
“Save it! You already trouble me enough. Must you be a nuisance as a ghost or human?!”
“I’m sorry, I never intend for any of that to happen,”
“But you’re quick to call when you are in danger. Do you know how bothersome it was for me to get that call? You are lucky that I was able do receive it,”
“I know you must be busy having fun with your friends,”
“Very busy! More than you can imagine. I haven’t met them in a while,”
“Was the hangout close? You came really fast,”
“Yes… I was close, there are a lot of fun places around,”
“I would’ve imagined,”
“Better!”
“You should return to them, I’ll find my way,” she said, and he scoffed.
“Are you trying to act cool after I saved you?”
“No, I—“ she was saying, but kept quiet when his phone started ringing.
“It’s Mr. Marson,” he said .
“Receive it,”
“Did you tell him about Dylan?” he asked.
“I thought you did,”
“I haven’t,” he muttered, and received the call.
He dropped the short call later and looked at her.
“What did he say?” she asked.
“He wants to meet later in the evening. I think he has a way to fish out evidence,”
“I would’ve imagined,”
“Let’s go grab something to eat first,”
“Yes, we should. I’m famished,” she whined.
“You’re such a glutton,” he sneered, and she glared at him.
“What?” he snapped, and she looked away immediately.
“Nothing,”
“Better,”
“What do we do about the men tailing you?”
“There is nothing we can do about them. Just let them be. Dylan and his stepfather won’t stop,”
She exhaled heavily. “We should go,” were the only words that escaped her mouth.
“Yes, we should,”
Driving along the road, they almost hit a man with their car but Violet was quick to call his attention to it.
Charles stepped on the brake immediately, and the fearless man looked at them from the outside.
“Goodness. That was close,” Violet gasped.
“No, it wasn’t. He is not a human,”
“What? He is a ghost?”
“He has no shadow. I told you how to identify them even if you escaped being one,” he said, and drove off when cars started horning behind him, and the ghost man vanished as well.
“Oh, he is really a ghost. How come you could swiftly identity them?”
“I have to, if I want to escape them,”
“But you weren’t that smart with me,”
“Not that I wasn’t, I was drunk that night, and I could still tell that you were a ghost,”
“You must’ve regretted it,”
“Will you leave if I admit to it?”
“I believe we met for a reason,”
“Reason? Let’s see how it goes,”
“Actually… Charles… we spent almost a day searching for ghosts, and we just left like that after finding one,”
“You should’ve tell me you wanted to exchange pleasantries with your kind,”
“He could know,”
“Know what?”
“How to leave this body. You were right, this girl has a life of her own… I wonder who Cherry is,”
“You can’t leave now. Mr. Marson seems to trust you. He specially requested that I come with you,”
“He did?”
“Your guys really bonded after I left first,”
“Not really…”
“What do I care?”
“But what happens after I leave this body?”
“You return to being Violet, the ghost and I remain Charles who can see Violet. And that lady, will return to her normal life, that’s if she still has one,”
“You think she is still alive?”
“You can’t thrive in her body if she wasn’t. I believe she is somewhere… somewhere she didn’t know existed,”
“Afterlife?”
“Everyone knows that existed,”
“Then, where?”
“I don’t know. I have never been there,”
“So much talk,” she mumbled, staring outside the window.
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Ivy went to the library, and had a lot of time to think, reading everything she can find on Charles.
“What is he exactly? He seems to be so close to Carolyn,” she thought, and someone tapped her from behind.
“Jon,” she called, and turned to him
“Charles Hewlett?” he called, looking at her phone screen.
“Oh, yeah. Do you know him?”
“I think I have heard about him,”
“Oh,”
“He was the knight, many people call him that at school after he showed up with cash, and showered them on a guy bullying you. I heard,” he said, and Ivy chuckled.
“Oh, I never knew that got him a nickname,”
“You really don’t pay attention to gossips,”
“I prefer direct confrontations,”
“What’s your relationship with him? He wouldn’t show up to your rescue out of blues,”
“He actually showed up out of the blues, not once, and not twice,”
“You’re close to him?”
“I can’t say I am. But we had a rather peculiar relationship. He knew my sister,”
“He was your sister’s friend?”
“I don’t think they were that close,”
“Should I be jealous?” he asked, and she laughed quietly.
“Come on. He is not even interested in me. Why would he? He is Charles Hewlett an infamous playboy,”
“What about you?”
“Hun?”
“Are you interested in him?”
“Jon… that’s uncalled for. We should leave, I’m famished,”
“That wltch girl, how did you ended up being close to her?”
“I’m not close to her and I don’t even understand what got into her. She was acting weird today, and he was with her. I wonder why,”
“Who?”
“Hun?”
“Who was with her? The “he”,”
“Hun. He was no body. The man that bullied her the last time,” she lied.
“You should stay away from that girl. In as much as I don’t want to, I believe all the rumors about her. Don’t let her initiate you,”
“Speaking like an old man,” she teased, and he chuckled.
“I actually meant it,”
“I don’t believe those stuffs. She is just weird and that’s it. There is a name for them, weirdos. That’s what she is but I found something about her interesting, and I also have a curious feeling about her,”
“Don’t get too curious. Stay away from her,”
“Ok, I’ll. Happy now?”
“Much better,” he said, and she laughed.
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Charles and Carolyn/Violet went to a restaurant to eat, after eating he drove her to a shopping mall.
“Why are we here?” she asked.
“Why do you think?”
“Do you want to get something for me?”
“Why would I get anything for you?”
“Come on, we are meeting with Mr. Marson later, I shouldn’t always appear before him on ragged clothes,”
“You care so much about Mr. Marson, but never cared about me. You follow me around on those ragged clothes, and now you are worrying about another man?”
“Hey. Why are you getting angry?”
“Whatever. You chose to live that way, if you can’t bear it anymore, find a way out of that body,”
“We both know how hard I tried,”
“Then try harder till your soul can’t take it anymore,”
“You’re so mean,”
“I never said I wasn’t,”
“Gosh. I have never seen anyone so proud of being arrogant ,”
“It’s nice meeting you too,”
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He went to get few things for himself, and they went to the female section to get things for herself.
“Wow. Turns out this body is not all bad,” she said, admiring the clothes she bought.
“Nice living in there,” he teased, and she scoffed.
They were heading to the escalator arguing about random stuffs when she saw a toddler on a scooter about to roll down the escalator.
“Noooooo….” she screamed, and ran after the child.
She rolled down in the process, but she was able to protect the child.
“Oh, my. My baby,” the mother cried out.
“Veeee…” Charles shouted, and ran to her.
She laid unconscious on the floor, with the baby unharmed.
“Vee, open your eyes. No, you can’t die again!” he shouted
“Charles,” he heard Violet called from behind looking at herself, now back in her ghost form.
Charles looked from Carolyn who was lying on the floor and back at Violet who is already back in her ghost form.
“Vee,” he called, and rushed to Violet.
“Charles…”
“Are you ok? Are you hurt?” he asked, holding her cold hands that didn’t seem to affect him
“Charles… Carolyn,” she said, pointing at the unconscious body on the floor.
Charles turned to look at Carolyn to see all eyes on him.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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