💐THE
💐 PLAYBOY’S
NEW MISSTRESS 💐
💔Her vengeful soul 💔
✍️✍️CHAPTER ELEVEN.1️⃣1️⃣
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GENRE: Romance, Fantasy, &Drama
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Settlings: California, United States. 21st century
💐Knight in shining armor 💐
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Violet has been wandering about all these while, trying her best to ignore Charles as she watched him from afar enjoying what he referred his best live.
Maxwell and Ella have been worked up about the board meeting that is fast approaching, and they don’t have time to torment Ivy who was preoccupied with processing her admission, and also thinking about Charles. He promised to unblock her, but he didn’t, instead he changed his handle name so she won’t be able to contact him. She figured out his new name via the internet, but she didn’t felt it’s right to approach him when he clearly cut off ties with her.
Thinking of the torment he must be facing through his dreams was understandable, but she wanted him to be cool with her at least, because she could sense that he was a nice person. He wasn’t as bad as people painted him.
While wandering around tirelessly, Violet heard of the news about haven group and also saw it in the billboard, so she looked for Charles and saw him drinking as always. But the atmosphere was different from his usual, he wasn’t in company of some wh0re or having fun while he drank. She watched him, contemplating on approaching him when Mr. Feng went to pick him up and take him home. She followed discreetly until Mr. Feng left, and she showed herself to him.
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She helped him to his bed after he passed out on her shoulder, and watched him sleep until daybreaks.
“Gosh, you startled me!” Charles shouted, when he opened his eyes to see her on his bed.
“I knew you’d change your mind when you wake up,”
“What? About what?”
“You were begging me to stay last night, and now you said I startled you!”
“I did?”
“Don’t you remember? Don’t do things you can’t recall,”
“Errrmmm… even if I did, I bet I didn’t ask you to watch me sleep, sitting this close to me,” he grumbled.
“That’s rich coming from you, after you passed out on my shoulder!”
“Hey! Cut the crap. How dare you make things up just because I was drunk and can’t recall,” he rolled his eyes.
“So now you are playing drunk. I should have known better,” she scoffed, and stood up.
“Wait!” he shouted.
“What?”
“Did I really ask you to stay?”
“Why else would I be here? Can’t you really remember? You were so pissed because that legal shit became the executive director, and you pleaded me to help you. You said you want to live with no regrets, you even passed out on my shoulder—…”
“Enough!” he snapped, and she glared at him. “I think I recall a little, but not that part of passing out on your shoulder, I could never do that even if I was out of my senses,”
“Then I guess you aren’t out of your senses, but out of your mentality,”
“Did I really did all that?” he grumbled, trying to recall everything.
“Hey! You said that legal shlt became the executive director, I remember that. I was so pissed…” his words faded, and he gasped.
“Do you remember—…”
“No!” he snapped. “There is nothing much to remember, I’ll go wash up,”
“Do you want me to leave again?”
“I never said that! I want to wash up, you can wait for me,”
“Really? You want me to wait?”
“Suit yourself,”
“Then I’ll just leave,”
“Hey!”
“Fine. I’ll wait,” she chuckled, and he rolled his eyes before going to the bathroom.
He came out of the bathroom after almost an hour of thinking about how to handle the situation. He have recalled everything, and he is determined to fight for his rights, but it’s embarrassing to admit that he really leaned on Violet’s shoulders, so he composed himself with determination to deny that before leaving the bathroom.
He went out and she welcomed him with a smile, startling him in the process.
“What? Why did she do that? Did she think we are close enough ro smile at each other just because I leaned on her shoulder?” he grumbled.
“I see you take your time to dry your hair in the bathroom this time,” she teased.
“I remember everything how,” he muttered.
“Really?” her face brightened.
“But I clearly don’t recall leaning on your shoulder, there is no way I could do that,”
“Alright, let’s say you didn’t do it “
“Really? You are going to give that up?”
“What? Why would I make a fuss out of it? It’s not like we kissed,”
“Kissed?”he shouted, and almost choked on his saliva.
“Are you alright?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. Why would you go that far? Why on earth will I kiss a ghost?”
“If you could lean on my shoulder, then we could as well kiss,”
“Hell NO! Leaning on your shoulder was my mistake, I passed out because I was drunk, and it’s my room… I wouldn’t have done that if I wasn’t in my room,”
“I see you now remember it,”
“What? Oh, goodness gracious,”
“Let’s forget about that,”
“Yeah, we should,”
He went to get dressed later, and they both sat together to discuss.
“So, what do I do?”
“Can you tell me about the shares?”
“I believe you know how haven group was founded since you claimed that my mum was your role model. She merged the Harrison’s group to her husband’s company after they got married and resigned right after. After I was born, she transferred all her shares to me. I was a child when she passed away, so its proper for all the shares to be temporally transferred to my father, but he refused to give it back. To him, I’m still an irresponsible and immature brat that can’t take responsibility. I bet I was, but not anymore. I can’t let that legal shit take everything from me. They are all mine by birth and rights, but Mr. Feng is the only person I have. He has no say, all he can do is clean after me,”
“You aren’t alone anymore, Mr. Feng isn’t all you have anymore, you now have me,” she said, and held his hand in assurance
“Why am I reassured, even though I don’t even know how you can help me,”
“We will start by challenging your father,”
“How?”
“For a start, tell him you want to move out of the house,”
“That won’t work. There was a time I wanted to move out, Mr. Feng already prepared the house I wanted to move to, but he was totally against it. Due to some reasons, he wants to keep me under his watch so he can prove a point. He seized all the private suite I own, I don’t have another place to call home,”
“That’s why I said we shouod challenge him. Give it a shot, make him scared of you, don’t allow him see you as that immature child anymore,”
“Then let’s do it. Today is Sunday anyways,”
“Sunday?”
“Yeah, it’s mandatory to have breakfast together every Sunday, they will still send someone to summon me,” he said, and they heard a knock on the door.
“I said it,” he muttered. “I’ll be right there!” he shouted, and Violet gave him an assurance smile.
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He joined his family at the main dinning hall, and they all looked at him as he pulled his seat.
“Congratulations on your inauguration, Dylan. Too bad I had to find out through the internet as everyone else. Too late to send any gift,” Charles said.
“I know you aren’t interested in those stuffs, anyways I’ll gladly accept your best wishes,” Dylan said.
“Don’t be too glad, you don’t know what I want to say next,”
“No one is interested in whatever you have to say, so just shut it and eat,” chairman Hewlett said.
“I know. That’s why I don’t understand why we gather to eat together when we aren’t even a family that listen to each other,”
“Shut the crap I said!”
“I want to move out,”
“I already said no,”
“That was five years ago,”
“And even in the nearest future, my answer remain the same,”
“Why are you doing this? Do you think you will be able to keep me under your watch forever?”
“Just live however you want, I don’t care about you. But do it all under my roof,”
“And if I refuse?”
“Then you are crossing me,”
“You just drew the line, dad,”
“Are you threatening me now?”
“No. I just want to make it clear. Mr. Sauto is leaving tomorrow, I think this immature son of yours and the only bloodline in the Harrison’s family should see him off at least,”
“What point are you proving?”
“I’m not a child anymore, dad. I might still be immature to you, but I’m not longer that little boy that was all alone after his mother passing. I know my rights, dad,”
“Is this fuss about moving out?” Dylan interfered.
“Stay out of it. It’s none of your business!”
“Charles!” his father shouted in an uproar.
“Dad!” he fired back, startling them. “I now want what belongs to me, because I’m no longer a child,”
“You want management rights? Do you think you can work in the company?”
“I don’t know. We will see how it goes,”
“You must be thinking that working is as fun as hanging out with friends and sleeping with different girls everyday. You have a reputation in case you forgot that,”
“And I have shares too, incase you forget that. I’m the highest shareholder in haven group!”
“Do you think having shares is all it takes to get approval? You know nothing, Charles. So continue living the way you have been living. I permit you to move out if that’s the cause of this chaos,” with that, the chairman left and Charles scoffed.
He looked at Violet who gave him a thumb up, and he left too, heading to the parking lot to join Mr. Feng.
“Sir, what happened? Did you do something again? The chairman seem really upset,”
“We’re moving out, Mr. Feng,”
“What? Is he throwing you out?”
“What nonsense? He just gave me permission to move out,”
“How did you do it?”
“I found myself a new mistress,” he muttered, and winked at Violet.
“What? Are you moving in with a woman? Goodness, sir. I can support you in everything you do, but that. I won’t approve that!”
“What if she is invisible to others?”
“What non— she is back?”
“Yes. And I made her my mistress,”
“What are you talking about? Can you have such relationship with her…”
“What?” Charles and Violet shouted, and shot Mr. Feng a glare
“That’s…”
“Mistress, like master, mistress! How could you think so lowly of me?”
“I’m sorry, sir. Now I understand,” he exclaimed.
“You better! And never have such thoughts again,”
“What is she really going to help you with?”
“I’ll tell you as we move, let’s get out of here now before dad change his mind,”
“We better,”
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Charles told Mr. Feng about his deal with Violet as they relocated to the house he bought five years ago.
“And in return?” Mr. Feng asked, and Charles looked at him.
“Don’t tell me you didn’t ask her what she wants jj return,”
“There is nothing I can give her in return,”
“She is a ghost,”
“I can’t help her get her revenge,”
“So, she is willing to help you for free?”
“Mr. Feng, let’s worry about that later,” with that, he went to join Violet who was staring outside the window.
“Is the view that beautiful?” he asked, and she turned around with a smile.
“Gosh, why have she been smiling too much later?” he thought.
“Are you ok?” she asked.
“What? What? Shouldn’t I be? Why are you suddenly smiling?”
“What?”
“I mean… never mind. Let’s stick to our deal. You don’t have to smile too much like that,”
“What did I do? When did I smile?”
“You’re even denying it,” he rolled his eyes.
“How is that a problem to you? Even if I smile, it shouldn’t affect you,”
“Of course it does!”
“In what way?”
“Why am I even having this conversation with you?”
“That Mr. Sauto, are you really going to see him?”
“No. I just used that to threaten my dad,”
“Then what do you plan to do after moving out?”
“I should be asking you that. You said you’d help me,”
“I did. That’s why I have everything planned out, I just wanted to hear your opinion “
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Ivy arrived at school as early as possible, after completing her admission process, she finally resumed. Attending college was never in her vision, but she can’t help her joy now.
She stepped into the building, and the first person she saw ruined her mood completely—her ex-boyfriend, Bryan Greyjoy.
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“Why is he here?” she thought.
“Ivy?” Bryan called, and Ivy tried to hide behind, but he was already fast approaching her.
“Excuse me,” she muttered, and intended to walk past him but he dragged her back pulling her close.
“Hey, don’t be like that. Stop acting like we are strangers,”
“I wish we were,”
“But not all wishes can be granted, you wouldn’t have wished to be here ,”
“And you? Why are you here?”
“I had to quit music. My father insist. My family might be messed up, but I’m still my father’s legal heir,”
“Good for you,”
“Let’s get back together. This is a new school, I need time to build a reputation before I think of dating anyone here, but that won’t be the case with you,”
“You’re nut! No, you are completely lost your mind,”
“That was a nice offer. I believe you need it more than I do. You are quite lonely. Think about it,” having said that, he left and she scoffed in disbelief.
She went for her first class, and Bryan joined her, taking the seat next to her’s.
“Business management,” he whispered in her ear, and she scoffed.
“Why did we really breakup?” he asked, and she glared at him.
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The classes ended for the day, and she was walking along the hallway heading out when she bumped into someone, and the person’s phone fell off.
“Oh, my. I’m so sorry,” she gasped, and looked up to see its Bryan.
“You’re finally talking to me after you spoilt my phone,” he said, and she picked it up to see the screen damaged.
“I’m sure you know how much it cost to fix that. And I don’t use things that are fixed, I go for new instead. So how will you take responsibility for this?”
“I’m so sorry…”
“Sorry? That won’t get me a new phone,” he said, and she looked at the phone in despair.
“I…”
“You should replace the phone with a new one. But I’m sure you can’t afford it,”
“Bryan, I really—“
“Let’s get back together. I’ll let this slide then,”
“Never!”
“Then get me a new phone,”
“You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”
“Is that how you want to play? I’ll call my lawyer, we should settle this legally. Don’t forget that I’m the victim here,”
“That won’t be necessary,” he heard someone said from behind, followed by showers of dollars.
Everyone around gasped, and Ivy turned to see Charles.
“Charles,” she called.
“It’s been a while, Ivy,” Charles winked.
“You again?” Bryan blurted.
“Glad you remember me,”
“Who are you to Ivy?”
“I don’t owe you an introduction, but if I should, I am… let me say her knight in shining armor,” he winked, and grabbed Ivy’s hand, dragging her away.
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He led her to his car and opened the door for her, she gave him a last look before entering the car.
“Are you ok?” he asked.
“How did you…”
“How do you think?”
“You dreamt it?”
“Let’s say I did,”
“Thank you,”
“Things must be really difficult for you than I thought,”
“He is my ex-boyfriend,”
“How did you date such a scumbag?”
“I know, right? Even my sister never knew that Maxwell was a scumbag until she passed away after passing the Holts asset to him. Human are very pretentious, and you can never see through them,”
“Do you actually believed that your sister willingly signed it all to him?”
“It was her birthday gift to him,”
“And she dled right after. On his birthday,”
“She didn’t dle on his birthday, she dled two weeks after,”
“What?” Violet who was seated at the backseat shouted. .
“How did you…” Ivy shuddered.
“You mean she didn’t dle on his birthday? How and when did she dle then?” he asked.
“I clearly remembered Ella hit me with a bottle and I passed away, that was the last memory I had left,”
“Why…”
“Just answer the damn question!” Charles shouted, startling Ivy.
“If I didn’t dle that day, then how exactly did I dle?” Violet muttered, tying to remember something, but she couldn’t remember anything other than passing out that day, and waking up by the roadside.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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