92. Mae
"Lade's father killed your father," Leo's words rang in my ears. The fucker fucking said that and just went back into his room after peaking my curiosity.
Brushing some hanging hair away from my forehead, I started back towards my room and thought I caught sight of Rhea walking out of the mansion through the entryway.
I hurried down the stairs to meet her but I couldn't see her anywhere. It was like she disappeared. Or was avoiding me, probably hiding from me? I sighed and went back up to my room after I looked around and didn't see her.
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Morning.
A knock woke me up, something that has become usual since I was brought here, to Leo's mansion. I opened the door to meet Anita the maid, she had two clothes bags in her hands, holding them up by their respective hangers.
"Good morning," she greeted and got me to stop my guess of why the fuck she came Knocking with clothes. "Sir Vance wants you to pick one of these," she completed.
"Why?" I asked like there was a chance she would know why Leo was having me puck a dress.
"Well, he asked me to do some clothes shopping for you and when I returned to him with these two, he instructed I give both to you to pick for yourself. He also asked me to tell you to be ready in one of them by two."
"..." I pressed my lips against each other, sighing after she gave the wrong answer to my WHY.
"You'd like them both," she smiled at me after I stared at the clothes bags she still had.
Sighing again, I took them both from her and closed the door after she turned to leave. I went back to the bed at threw the bags to the other side, laying back down to continue sleeping.
I barely closed my eyes when another knock came by. I groaned and pulled the duvet over my head before going to answer it. It was Anita again.
"I just wanted to let you know that I'd be back in a few minutes to see if you're ready so I know if it's okay to let the makeup artists visit your room." She still had her smile but not me. I got confused when she mentioned she'd be back in a few minutes.
"In a few minutes?" I asked her but got a responding nod."Why?" I asked to know why she would want to come see if I was ready in a few minutes when I planned to go back to sleep.
"Because in a few minutes, it will be 1 pm, thirty minutes should be enough for your make-up and you can be composed before it's 2 pm and you have to leave with sir Vance."
"1 pm?" What the fuck was she talking about? I immediately rushed back to the digital alarm clock sitting on the right bedside table, the one next to where I just woke up from.
It really was almost one pm. Fuck. I thought I set my alarm. I lifted the clock and saw that some part of its bottom edge was chipped off. Almost like it fell and hence was why my alarm didn't wake me up... but then it didn't... not while I was in the room... unless someone else came in here.
I went back to Anita waiting at the door, the sleepiness in my eyes gone. "Okay," I just told her, "I'd be done by the time you come check."
After she left and I closed the door, I went back to the bedside table and checked for my locket necklace. It was still there but Leo's ring wasn't there. Did he take it back? No, I didn't think he did. He could just ask me for it if he wanted it back. Not like I held any value to his ring but it was fucking valuable, monetarily speaking.
That ring was made entirely of gold. He might not be happy to hear that I no longer had it but that surely wouldn't be because it's a gold ring, it would be because it was my father's ring, now his. I still don't know his obsession with my father but I do know he has an attachment to that ring.
I guess I would have to tell him later today that someone came into my room and took his ring. I returned my attention to the clothes bags still lying on the part of the bed where I left them.
I took the dress out of the first bag and held it up against my torso as I stood in front of the mirror on the wall. It was a pretty dress. Body-hugging and enhancing my figure, it had a long netty sleeve and a flat line cut to expose some of my cleavages.
I decided to put on the second dress and after the first. It was a shorter length than the first. The first dress stopped right above my knees but the second one was mid-thigh length. Sexy. Thin straps for sleeves, it had a v-cut and snatched my waist.
I stopped myself from getting too lost and feeling pretty in the dress. I had to stop to ponder where it was Leo wanted to take me today to have me dressed in either of these Anita brought. Speaking of Anita, she did have good taste in picking dresses.
A knock intruded my thoughts. Anita. It must be her. I went to the door and met her waiting.
"Are you ready ye–wow," she stopped mid-question to praise how I looked in the second dress I was testing."Sir Vance was right, this looks so good on you."
I lifted my eyes to her when she added, "Did he say that?"I asked her.
"He did," she nodded. "At first he went 'everything looks good on her' and then, it ended in him picking this."
"I thought you said he wanted me to pick for myself," I raised one of my brows as I questioned.
"Yes, after picking this as the one that he thought would look better on you. He said he wanted you to feel good in whatever you wore so he asked me to give both to you to choose for yourself."
"Oh," I just said but deep down, I wanted to ditch this second dress since he liked it; I wanted to wear the other one so he wouldn't pleased to see that I wore the one he thought would look better on me but then, I liked this one more than the first one.
Well, fuck him, I'll wear the one I want to; this one.