The Heiress

I'm Not Afraid

Damian barge into her office after she ignored his calls and text messages for almost a week, maybe he was tired of playing games with her. Arielle doesn't feel obligated to reply to messages or pick up calls from him. They had only known each other for two months, yet Damian acted as if they had known each other for a long time and casually barged into her office. She growled because  he came at the wrong time.

Yes, wrong time. Because her anger is running high. thanks to the finance division who made mistakes in writing financial statements so many times. She hadn't taken her anger out on anyone this afternoon, if he asked her to argue then she would be happy to do it.

“I hope you give me a good excuse after ignoring me for a week” he hissed

“Um, I beg your pardon?”

“You heard me, sweetheart”

Arielle's eyebrows shot up and she immediately got up from her chair "I don't need to give you good reasons, you can think why I did this" she wouldn't lose to this man

“Oh, just because I asked you about it?” he said scornfully "Wouldn't it be better if I asked you directly instead of believing unfounded news?"

"Is this the real you?" she chose not to answer and asked question again "because you who came to me didn’t behave like this, if so then you should stop pretending" she said coldly

"Am I pretending?" he replied no less coldly "You also lied to me, you said you have no friends, but you have a friend named Gretta!"

"She's not my friend" For now, because they still haven't made up as long as he doesn't know how to remember.

"Is that so?" he asked "you can't just ignore me after kissing me!" he hiss

Damian remember?

Her head was throbbing slowly, damn it. How could he remember it?

"You were drunk that night, you don't remember anything you did"

"Oh, what a shame. Even if I'm drunk I will always remember if I kiss or f*****g a beautiful girl like you” he was angry but still had time to praise her, her heart was pounding.

Maybe she needs to see a psychologist after this.

"Okay, maybe it's my fault. I shouldn't have impolitely barged into your office.” Damian relented, he felt bad for disturbing Arielle who was working.

Damian's eyes look around wildly, looking at the pile of documents on her desk. It was past lunchtime and for some reason he was sure that Arielle had missed her lunch.

"Have you eaten?" he asked softly

Again, her eyebrows raised "are you bipolar?" she said "You came in cursing and now you're speaking softly to me"

He chose to ignore Arielle's words "Come on, I know a good restaurant around here" he says "I think you also need a momentary diversion from your piled up work"

“Let me distract you” Damian immediately walked up to her, he stretched out her hand.

"How can I accept the invitation of someone who is not honest with me" she hissed sharply

“Oh, we have one point each. I lied and you are the same, we are the same. Is not it?" He tries to be gentle with her “Therefore, I'm sorry. Let's start from the beginning, Frieeends?"

She accepted his outstretched hand "Friend"

And they both smiled after that.

“But if you lie to me again, I will make you my snowleopard and black panther lunch!” she threatened and Damian laughed out loud at that

"Whatever your punishment, I will gladly accept it" he said with a crooked smile.

Arielle tilted her head, why did Damian seem to have more free time than he did. "Aren't you busy?" she asked curiously

"No, why?" he answered innocently “My business is just a pastry shop and I entrust it to every shop head. So why should I bother with it all day long?”

“Ah, your life is very pleasant. You don't have to sit all day in a chair and face the computer screen, you don't have to be sore from signing a lot of documents. You also don't have to fly three times a week and lack sleep, do you?”

“Of course, I will never be enslaved by my business. If my business empire is keeping me from having fun, I'd rather not have a business empire," he said with a chuckle.

Arielle immediately sat down and leaned back in her chair, “I can't go out for lunch because I still have a lot of work to do. You can come out when you're done" she said and immediately went back to her work

"Don't you feel sorry for me for being here?" he said pitifully and Arielle rolled her eyes

"No"

Damian immediately sat on the sofa and was silent after that, but he stared at Arielle intensely. She was focused on signing the document regardless of him who kept staring at her.

He reached into his trouser pocket to take out his smartphone. He takes pictures Arielle who was signing the document with her hair in a messy bun, even so she still looked very beautiful. She's impossibly beautiful. He even doubted his eyesight when he first saw Arielle.

“Damian” called Arielle

"Hmm?"

“Pierre said you were dangerous, how could you really be?” Arielle asked without taking her eyes off from the document she was reading

Damian's brows furrowed, he was confused "You know, maybe I'm called dangerous because Pierre has seen me angry" he explained "You just saw a small part of my anger earlier"

"Is that so?" Arielle looked at him confusedly, “So what do you do when you are angry? burn down the house?”

Damian looked at her lazily “you are so mean”

"Indeed," she answered simply.

He immediately stood up from his seat "I think I will go, watching you do your work makes me feel guilty for leaving my secretary to do my work"

"I'm leaving, Elle" he said goodbye and left. Leaving Arielle staring at the door, what did Damian called her just now?

Day turned night so fast. The pile of documents that filled her desk had dwindled because Liam had taken them away. She stretching her body for a moment.

For almost twelve hours she had been sitting and struggling with works, she needed to rest now. Which unfortunately she can't do it now.

Tonight, she had to fly to New York. Her eldest brother – Adrian, asked her to return to New York for a while. So she was forced to give all her power and authority to Liam, her secretary.

Adrian asked her to stay in NYC as long as possible. Somehow he suddenly asked her to do that. But because she is a good little sister, she will immediately obey his brother's request without asking.

She was about to leave without telling Damian she was leaving England, she didn't feel obligated to tell him. Let Damian figure it out himself.

It's raining heavily in England tonight, luckily the flight was only delayed and didn't cancel. She was currently standing at the gate before entering the plane. Liam waited for her faithfully. He was the eldest son of his father's secretary, then it became clear that he understood everything about her and Cartier as well. “Keep the manor and everything from being intruded, I entrust everything to you”

“I understand, miss” Liam said firmly

Arielle nodded in satisfaction "You can come to New York or Frisco if you need me" she said and immediately left.

She hummed happily, her presence there would cause a lot of trouble. The Cami family who live in New York will start creating new dramas. But somehow she couldn't wait for it.

In the past, she kept quiet and let them do everything to ruin her reputation. Cartier's big name was also tarnished. Despite that, Cartier had always been the most powerful and she was very grateful for that.

The Cami family should’ve never chosen Cartier as their enemy from the start. They will regret it and Arielle will make sure it happens. She would show them that they chose the wrong enemy. She really couldn't wait to crush them one by one with her own hands. She would let them beg for forgiveness that she would never give.

She will never afraid to face them. 

She smiled a little, imagining what game she was going to play next.

Just you wait, Rory Cami.

She would punish Cami's family who wanted everything she had.

She will punish them.