Abandoned a Gem for a Bun

Zac stood rooted, looking out the window with his chin raised defiantly and his hands in his pocket. He stood there motionlessly as if he were standing quietly and meditating.

He was wrapped in all black suit, looking valiant and noble. Under the dim, warm yellow light in the large room, he looked magnificent and very handsome. It was just that his indifferent expression scared people away from approaching.

Reid and Lee also stood next to each other with their arms crossed over their back and heads lowered.

Ariana was the only one sitting on the bed, with her injured arm extended onward. She was still wearing the red dress, but her boot had been taken off by Lee, who had also removed the bullet from her arm and applied disinfectant and gauze on the wounded area.


The air in the room felt quiet and empty, just like the air before a violent storm. No one dared speak, as if the first to talk would lose on their unspoken battle.


“I'm so sorry, boss. It's my fault, I promise to accept any punishment to redeem myself” Ariana spoke up first, her voice was trembling and had a crying tone.

After a while, Zacgraduallyly turned around to face Reid and Lee. The corners of his mouth slightly pursued, and his eyesight was sharp.
“Duke mustn't escape. Dead or alive, I want him” After the words, he trotted out of the room, without waiting for their response.


Ariana looked at his back view disappearing out the door and burst into a fresh wave of tears as soon as he was out of sight.
Lee quickly scurried to sit next to her and hold her hand, patting her.


“Boss, wouldn't forgive me,” as she cried, her shoulder trembled violently.
Reid rubbed the space between his eyebrows, knowing too well about Ariana's affection for Zac. He was aware of the fact that Ariana hated not to please the boss and that was why she was crying too much, only because she had failed him.

***

Hazel and Freya helped Ava to lay on her back in her bedroom and covered her with the cover. Ava shifted to a better position and forced herself to sleep off.
“What happened to her? Has she aborted a pregnancy?” Charlotte asked nonchalantly, chewing her gum annoyingly as she stood in the doorway to Ava's room.


“Yes, Charlotte. As a matter of fact, we're just coming back from the hospital” Hazel also reacted indifferently, her eyes glaring holes into Charlotte's body.


Freya only hissed loudly as she passed by Charlotte and walked out of the room to meet Caleb.

“How's she now?” asked Caleb restlessly, waiting for Freya's response. However, instead of replying, Freya stared deeply at his face with her brows furrowed.

“Why do you suddenly look different, Caleb?” she questioned inquisitively, staring at his face worriedly.

Caleb blinked his eyes twice, but soon recalled what had gone missing on his face. He raised his pair of glasses to Freya's face and chuckled softly.

“Quickly, put it on. You don't want me to tell you how you look without it,” said Freya, there was a smirk playing around her lips.

“No, Freya, don't say it,” Caleb insisted, more or less knowing Freya's thought.

“Come on, Caleb, it's not that bad. I was going to say you look like a female monkey” Freya joked and attempted to sprinted to the door, but he grasped her wrist with his palm and confined her movement. He made a flip and wanted to shuffle her to a seat, but unfortunately for him, he lost his balance and they both fell to the floor with him lying on top of her.

Sparks flew between them as they stared at each other.

Freya's heart pounded strongly as if it could jump out of her chest anytime, she had never looked at him attentively at that close distance, and she couldn't help but think in her heart, Caleb was not as attractive as Zac, but he was still a diamond among ordinary people.


Hazel suddenly came into the living room with Charlotte behind her. The expressions on their faces indicated that they just had a heated argument. However, seeing the figures laying on top of each other in front of them, Charlotte's expression was soon replaced with an awe look as she thought surly to herself that these people had no shame whatsoever.

On the other hand, Hazel had a lovely smile on her face as she looked at them bit by bit. She thought that there was obviously something between them, it's a little wonder they were not aware of their feelings for each other.

“Hmm hmm”

Hazel let out a discreet cough and they both released from the spontaneous entanglement. Caleb got up first and adjusted his glasses, and Freya got up next, itching her hair and avoiding Hazel's eye contact.

“It's not what you are thinking though”
she said uneasily, and Charlotte scoffed in disdain.

“What else to think? You both were making out in someone else's house and to top it off, on the floor for that matter? Is that how desperate you've been longing for each other? You have no shame at all, I must say” she concluded and dramatically spat in disgust.


Hazel became furious and turned to Charlotte to have a real ding-dong with her.

“Look who's talking about shame”

Freya's infuriated voice cut in before Hazel could open her mouth and talk.

“We are for more better than you, bitch! Snatching your own sister's boyfriend and boosting for it, do you think you have shame? You're shameless, useless and do not even worth to be seen around someone decent as Ava”

Freya was fuming steam at this point, her hands trembled because of anger and eyes turned a bright shade of red. In her heart, she thought that Charlotte wasn't the only one who could be sarcastic.

“What do you mean by snatching her sister's boyfriend, Freya?” Hazel seemed to be unaware of the matter as she asked dimly.


Freya laughed maniacally as she put forward some paces, “Didn't you hear about it, Hazel?”
Hazel shook her head sideways twice as she stole a glance at Charlotte's sallow face.


“Do you remember the guy who was here that day you came to this place and met me here?”
Hazel nodded directly, recalling how the guy left immediately she entered the house that day.


“That was Ava's ex-boyfriend, who was stupid enough to abandon a gem for a bun” Freya's words became more presumptuous as she glared coldly at Charlotte whose eyes had turned red as a beetroot, “You better watch your tongue, or you're going to regret it” her teeth gnashes as she spoke.

“What are you going to do? Huh!”

Freya charged towards her and they both glared right back at each other. If Freya was given the chance to murder Charlotte for millions of dollars, she would gladly do it without taking any dime. That was how much she had loathed Charlotte since the first impression Charlotte gave her on the first time of their meeting.

“Useless slut”
Freya concluded, threw one final glare at her and turned around but stopped almost immediately and turned back to her.

“Anyway, I'm sure you might have heard of the good news about our dear Ava” Freya began again with a deep sneer implanted at the corners of her mouth.


Charlotte just glared at her with her hands on her both sides, clutched tightly. With the way, she was feeling resentment toward Freya, she would have pounce on her and teach her some lessons if Hazel and Caleb weren't there.


“She's the new queen of the prominent and handsome youngest billionaire in this city, I guess you know who that is," Freya taunted relentlessly as she spoke her words.


Charlotte's disgruntled face gradually changed to a calm one, and it seemed as if she was fighting with herself in her head.

Standing there this whole time, not once did Caleb pay any heed to the girls' ordeal, as he just continued to stand there motionlessly. In his opinion, what Charlotte had done to Ava had crossed Freya's bottom line by leaps and bounds.

“Zachary Gonzalez. Ava had won his kindness out of her own will” Hazel spoke up this time, evacuating where she was standing beside Charlotte and came to stand in front of her.
“I want to see what you're capable of doing now, Charlotte. I'm sure you wouldn't like to mess with someone like Zachary Gonzalez,”

Hearing this, Charlotte's heart seemed to be grabbed by something and was so heart-wrenching painful.


Of course, she also saw the picture of Ava and Zac together, but she refused to believe it blindly. Thinking in her mind that, how would someone like Ava even see Zachary Gonzalez in her dreams, let alone being with him in the real life?

After one final deadly glance, Hazel, Freya, and Caleb trotted out of the place without saying another word to Charlotte.

Charlotte was frozen in place. She stared, her eyes were round and the pupils of her eyes were bulging outwards and her hands were full of rippling veins as she thought inside her heart that she would reveal to Ava what she was capable of doing.