Chapter 11 Keep Herself in Line

"You've signed the agreement, which means you agree to every clause in it." he said in a clear and cold voice, sounding as pleasant as music.
He threw the agreement onto Victoria's legs.
Victoria picked it up unconsciously.
"Article Three! Read it to me."
He was as majestic and noble as a king, and no one could disobey him.
Victoria seemed to have been controlled by him and read the agreement as told.
"Within one hundred days, Victoria Collins must keep a distance from all the other males, otherwise it will be regarded as a breach of the agreement, and Victoria Collins will be at Edmund Haines' disposal..."
There was something else, but Victoria couldn't read on.
She regretted so much that she had signed the agreement in a fit of anger without reading it carefully!
"You still feel wronged now?"
Edmund said coldly.
"No!"
Victoria threw the agreement back to Edmund in frustration.
She lowered her eyes to hide the disappointment.
Out of the blue, she felt something odd on her face.
It turned out that Edmund was holding her face.
Victoria always thought that Edmund was a cold person out-and-out, but at this moment, she found his palms were extraordinarily warm.
The warmth of his palms was like the electric current to the skin of her face, and going straight down into her heart. She had never felt so warm and touched before.
At this time, Edmund held her face up.
Accidentally, she looked him in the eyes.
His eyes were deep and cold, which made her dare not look straight at them, but they were so beautiful that once she looked straight into them, she would be indulged, and could no longer take her eyes off them...
"Victoria Collins, mark my words. I don't care how many guys you've fucked before, and I don't care if you'll continue to live like a slut later. But, in the coming one hundred days when you play as my wife, you must keep yourself in line. You got it?"
Somehow, his words stung Victoria.
She wanted to question him how he could just go around calling her a slut.
However, seeing the disdain in his eyes, she smiled proudly.
"Mr. Haines, don't worry. I will act to the agreement and play my role well, and I'll never disgrace your name."
After saying it, she pushed him away and looked out of the window again.
Until then, she could still feel the warmth of his palm.
But...
Warmth?
Victoria suddenly felt like a fool.
'In Edmund's eyes, I'm a bad woman, and a tool to make his mother happy.
By no means will he ever show me warmth and care!
From now on, I'll never demean myself to expect on him again!' she thought.
Edmund started the car.
Victoria leaned against the door and curled up on the back seat. The cold wind blew through the window, and she shivered.
It suddenly melted Edmund's iron heart when he looked at her lonely and helpless face, and he couldn't help to feel sorry for her.
Edmund tried to stifle this undesired feeling in the cradle.
However, this feeling for her seemed to have been rooted deep in his soul, and the more he tried to kill it, the clearer and stronger it became.
And he couldn't help to cast his eyes on her again and again...
He loved and hated clearly.
He was a sweet guy to those he loved and was a heartless devil to those he cared none about.
He was sure that Victoria was one of the people who he didn't care about.
But...
Damn it!
Edmund found that he wasn't quite himself since he married Victoria.
...
In Royal Mansion.
The large seaside villa was as magnificent as a palace.
It was also home to Edmund.
Victoria had thought that Edmund would change his face before going home, but unexpectedly, he drove directly into the villa.
Edmund said coldly, "The only two servants who can listen in the family have accompanied my mother to River Town to pray. I don't need to pretend until they come back."
Victoria was puzzled.
The only two servants who could listen?
What about the rest of the servants?
Edmund seemed to be able to read minds, "In the family, besides the two servants, who take care of my mother, and Jack, the other servants are deaf and dumb."
Victoria heard it and was in cold sweat.
By then, Edmund had already got out of the car and left.
Victoria also got out of the car.
She followed Edmund, walked through the yard into the lobby on the first floor, and saw a dozen of servants, each of whom was silently doing his job like a robot.
Victoria had felt things were weird in the family the day before.
And she had finally figured it out!
Edmund did this just because the deaf and dumb couldn't tell, even if they had found out his secrets!
As soon as he arrived home, Edmund left Victoria behind and went into the study.
Victoria stood alone in the huge living room, watching the two deaf and dumb servants busying around silently not far away, feeling a little helpless.
"Mrs. Haines, welcome home."
There came a kind voice.
Victoria looked up and saw it was Jack.
"I've put your suitcase in your bedroom. I've thought of tidying it up for you, but I believe those are your personal belongings. So, I think I'd better leave it to you."
Jack had a serious face, but he showed his respect to Victoria in every way.
Victoria felt Jack was much kinder than Edmund, and she smiled politely.
"Thanks, Jack."
Saying it, she walked towards the bedroom where she had slept with Edmund the night before.
"Mrs. Haines, please hold on!"
Jack hurriedly blocked her way at the door.
"Didn't Mr. Haines tell you? Mr. Haines said...
"He said that he was forced to sleep with you in the same room last night, and from now on, you are strictly forbidden from entering his bedroom."
"Oh really?" Victoria raised her chin without showing any weakness.
"Jack, please tell Mr. Haines that he is a cold fish. He's boring and has a very bad temper. I wish I could stay as far away from him as possible. The last thing I want to do is enter his bedroom!"
"This..."
Jack looked terribly worried.
How dare he say those words to Edmund?
However, where Victoria was standing was not far from Edmund's study, and the door of the study was open, so Edmund had probably heard what she said!
Suddenly, they heard the coughing.
Edmund was accidentally choking on water in the study.
Jack instantly pointed upstairs.
"Mrs. Haines, I've put your suitcase in Room 202."
Victoria came to Room 202.
She'd stayed in the Collins family for 14 years, and life there was like a living hell.
Strangely, although things in the Haines family were a bit weird, and Edmund was quite indifferent, she always had a sense of security since she married Edmund and moved in. She had only felt that when she lived with her mother before six.
This was the feeling of home that Victoria had been longing for in the past 14 years.
So, let her just take this place as her real home for the time being.
It would last for one hundred days only!
But just let her feel at home again during these one hundred days!