bChapter /b7

“Between me and rieka, who do you choose?”

Kieran answered right away, “You.”

rieka still remembered the disgust in his eyes and his cold voice.

“rieka, don’t get any funny ideas about me.”

To him, her feelings were like garbage in a sewer, disgusting even to look.olliat./li/ol

The fear she once felt when facing the disgust in his eyes now turned into an equally strong urge to stay far away.

Shaking off the memory, she wearilyy down on the bed until Tamika’s shrill voice woke her up.

“Don’t you know that nobody in this family likes us? Even the servants. look down on us! I’ve pinned all my hopes on you. You gotta make something of yourself!”

rieka was sick of hearing this and wasn’t gonna budge. “Mom, don’t push me!”

“rieka, Tamika, stop daydreaming!” came a voice that was sweet on the surface butced with arrogance.

Tamika nced at the door, and her face turned pale all of a sudden. She said in a fawning tone, “Ms. Argent, you’re back.”

rieka quietly grabbed the suitcase from Tamika’s hand, about to stuff it back under the bed, when rissa Argent walked in on her high heels

and got right up to her.

rissa was Kieran’s cousin and Wace’s only granddaughter.

She was the center of attention and was treated like a princess.

She looked down at rieka with that same familiar gaze–cold, condescending, and sharp as ever.

“If I hadn’te back, you guys would have turned our family into a

mess!

“rieka, didn’t Kieran make it clear to you?” Her pretty face wore a mocking smile. “He told you to stay the hell away, but you keep hanging around him shamelessly, even when he’s on a business trip!”

rieka stood up calmly, looking rissa straight in the eye, her tone. steady.

“This is my room. Please leave.”

rissa’s face twisted into an even more mocking look, like she had heard the funniest joke.

“Don’t get ideas that this ce is yours just because you’ve been here all these years,” rissa scoffed. “Listen, this is the Argent’s vi, not yours. I can go wherever I want here.”

rieka’s eyes turned a little colder. “But at least in Sir Argent’s eyes, this is my room.”

rissa’s face darkened. “How dare you talk back to me and use Grandpa to pressure me? Who do you think you are?!”

To get on Kieran’s good side, rieka would do anything to win over the Argent family in herst life.

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She’d put up with rissa’s bossiness and nod along to whatever she said.

Even when rissa gave her a hard time over Roschelle, she’d take it.

This was the first time she had ever stood up to rissa.

It felt great, but rissa was clearly ticked off.

Just as ricka was about to leave, a car pulled into the courtyard. rissa let out a littleugh.

“I know why you have to follow Kieran on the trip. Let me tell you, your scheme doesn’t work!”

She shoved ricka aside and strode to the window to look down.

“Kieran, Rose, here you are!”

rieka’s room was on the second floor of the vi, and the sounds from the courtyard would always faintly drift in.

She heard Roschelle’s voice, which she hadn’t heard in a long time. It still had that same ssy and elegant feel, with a bit of charm in its cool tone, just the way Kieran liked.

“Rissa, I’ve brought you a gift. Come downstairs and check it out.”

Kieran’s voice was loud enough for rieka to catch how he was indulging rissa.

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