Chapter 107 Dagger Stare
Chapter One Hundred And Six
“She’s still peeking at us.” Zach uttered as he pretended to take a sip out of his wine glass.
“How dumb.” Aria replied, shaking her head, “I’m sure Vera put her up to this but she’d be shocked at how fast it’s gonna backfire.”
When Selena had approached their table earlier, Aria was not for one minute, fooled by her pretend act.
People like Selena did not suddenly have a change of heart, then come apologize to the ones that they hate.
They would deliberately continue to pull you down from whatever high place you are, until you’re completely rock bottom and disdainful like they are.
So when Selena had apologized to her earlier, she had immediately recalled when she’d seen her follow Vera out of the hall earlier.
It seemed to Aria that the two dumb bitches had come up with a plan.
When Selena had placed the drinks before their table earlier, she immediately realized what the plan was.
Drugs.
The drinks were obviously laced, with maybe an aphrodisiac. Selena and Vera were obviously trying to implicate both Zach and her.
And no doubt they’d have the entire world ready to watch them humiliate themselves, if they did take the drug laced drinks
Aria scoffed in disbelief at the ridiculousness of it all.
“Selena Beaumont,” She thought to herself as she watched Selena walked off, “You might have been able to pull this off with your dumb, country bumpkin of a sister.” She smirked, “But I am Elara Vaughn, Bitch. I will show you what happened when someone dared to mess with me.”
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Zach picking up his wine glass and ready to take a sip out of it.
“What’s gotten into her?” Zach uttered as he raised the glass to his lips, “how did she have a change of heart suddenly?”
“It’s drugged.”
Zach froze, pulling the wine glass away from him as far as possible as though it was infested with a deadly venom.
“What?” He croaked.
“Probably with an aphrodisiac,” Aria uttered, looking calm and unbothered as she picked up her own wine glass as well, swirling the blood red liquid while looking into its depths.
“What the fuck…” Zach almost yelled but caught himself in time.
He gritted his teeth, his entire body erupting with goosebumps at the thought of what he’d almost drank.
“Why the fuck would she do that?” He uttered fiercely, “Is your sister out of her mind?!”
“She’s not my sister,” Aria replied coldly, then smiled at him, wagging her eyebrows, “What do you mean why would she do that? She probably wanted us to get naughty.”
Zach felt his stomach flip over. He was going to get sick.
“Stop.” He groaned, closing his eyes in anguish at the thought of him and Aria in bed together.
He could not even think about it.
Lucian would skin him alive, then take his limbs from his body one after the other, and watch the life drain out of him in pleasure.
He shivered with terror at the thought and thanked his stars once more that he’d not taken the drink.
He turned to Aria, “That was not very nice. What Selena Beaumont did.” He was furious, “Are you just going to let her go that way?”
“Are you kidding?” Aria uttered calmly as she relaxed back in her seat, continuing to swirl her drink, “She has to pay for daring to mess with me.”
Zach nodded, his jaw taut, “I could arrange for some people to get her at once.” He uttered but Aria shook her head.
“No, that’s not going to scar her enough,” she replied, “Besides, this wasn’t all her idea. “
Zach frowned, “She planned this with someone? Who…”
He stopped as soon as he’d asked the question as he realized who else would be capable of doing something so malicious.
“Vera Hale?!”
“I have to teach them both a lesson. A lesson they’ll never forget for the rest of their miserable, tiny lives.”
Zach stared at the woman before him in wonder.
Why on earth would Vera Hale do that to her?
And he’d thought that the business concerning the dress earlier was just an accident.
Was Vera Hale still salty about it?
Judging from what he’d discovered between Kurt Eugene and Vera Hale, he knew that Vera was not a decent person.
But what business does she have to do with Aria?
And why did Aria Beaumont look so venomous when talking about dealing with Vera Hale? Do they have some kind of history between themselves or what?
From what he knew about the lives of both women, Aria Beaumont and Vera Hale never crossed paths, nor would they have had the chance to.
But just now…
The cold look in Aria’s eyes when she’d spoken of Vera had sent shivers down his spine. It was the same cold look she’d sent Kurt Eugene whenever she interacted with him.
A death stare.
If stares were daggers, then Kurt would he a been dead a long time ago.
There was definitely something going on between themselves.
And he would have to get to the bottom of it. And let Lucian know while he was at it too.
“What are you thinking about?” Aria asked, jerking Zach out of his thoughts back into the present.
“Nothing.” He said hurriedly, “Never mind.”
“I said I have a plan in mind to get back at both Vera and Selena. You know, killing two birds with one stone,” Aria uttered calmly, “But first you have to do something for me.”
“What’s that?” Zach asked.
He did not know why he was suddenly wary of whatever it is that Aria was going to ask. He wanted to help her by doing all he can, and frankly, that was why Lucian told him to accompany her here.
But somehow, he was now more scared of this woman than her husband.
“What do you want me to do?” He asked once more.
Aria flashed him a beautiful smile, “I want you to drink your wine.”