Bound By A Ritual
and she couldn't help but feel uneasy about staying so late in that mansion. Boredom got the best of her, an
like going to school, but instead, it's a cleaning sch
x, or else two hundred thousand dollars will be deducted from your seven
is incredible! In three months, I'll have a total of two point one milli
in her bag and stood up, ready to go home and share the good news with her mother. However, just as she
it difficult to move, even if she wanted to. The man in front of her mumbled the name, Lara, as his red eyes studied her
dened in shock, and that was all it took for her to finally find the strength to rea
o do? Was he trying to
n't know him. As she stopped to catch her breath, she glanced back and breathed a sigh of r
when she saw him standi
et here so fast?" Ava yelled at him, her voi
the man replied, his vo
hesitation and frustration. However, the man before her only smiled, and Ava couldn't he
know someone, right?" he calmly replied
r. "I suppose," she answered, warily eyeing him. "But what do you wan
this man potentially being a serial killer or someone dangerous. In that moment of hesitation, he seized the opportunity to hold her hand
is. You've got the wrong person," Ava tri
remember," he said with a smil
onding to him, Ava found herself co
didn't board now, she would have to make the long trek home
e said reassuringly, tr
gside you," Ava quickly replied, at
suggested, hoping t
still don't feel like..." Her thoughts trailed off as she pull
d, turning around and beginning t
discovery. Ava scoffed at his reaction. To her, knowing his
ance between them. She swiftly stepped onto the bus, making her way to the very end and choosing a seat near t
he claims to love and is now mistaking me for her. Poor gu
ing two handsome men in one day, one with red eyes professing his love, and the other with dark eyes,
ips. It had truly startled her, and the aura he emitted was undeniably unsettling. Ava had conflicting
red Ava, making her hesitant to dwell on such thoughts. "Oh gosh," sh
e brother, Luke, ran into her arms. "Big sis, you're h
a asked, planting a k
o much!" Luke kissed her c
r set the table for them. Putting Luke down, she threw her bag onto the couch b
r there?" Her mother asked
laimed, and everyone che
ting paid seven hundred dollars a
und closing the windows and locking the door, giving Ava a puz
r," Luke said in h
ing her head. Sometimes she found it hard to believe he was j
ng," Ava requested,
t to say..." Tears rolled down her mother's cheeks, a
crying? Imagine when you see the money," Ava said, t
ired if it will make Mother this happy. I just have to
shed out of her small room, not even having time to eat breakfast. She kissed her brother on th
g room, I took off my clothes. Putting on the black short-sleeved blouse, I buttoned it up, but when I put on the skirt, I realiz
such proportions. I mean, I'm not fat, so wh
ail. Then, I adjusted my skirt, and thankfully, it stopped at my t
gs at the meeting hall to see who was late or early. To think that
line, and the master glanced over them. The room was quiet,
and I closed my eyes, prepa
red. Turning around, I
gn. Oh God, he rarely smiled anyway, bu
y from him, I swallowed n
brows, causing me to go silent. "You're wearing heels instead of sneakers. Was
I started, but
read the r
ame become Lar
is isn't a club where you can dress as you wish," he reprimand
ill be punished," he growled. "Do you understand?" I nodded, still looking down. "The meeting
dibly uncomfortable. "Go to Lady Martha and h
I had never been so ashamed in my life. I was sure the other girls
yself, and with that, I walked towards Lady
is inde
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