Ian Lark was a good-looking guy. He was a carbon copy of his father but younger and with more refined facial features. His eyes were blue, though a bit lighter than father's. Many girls fought hard to be his girlfriend or partner at a family party.
However, to me, this snobbish, arrogant man was only a clown or more like a little puppet. He was not smart or interesting enough. Instead, he was awfully boring.
"Didn't you hear me?
I turned to him with a defiant look. He was dressed very neatly, with a blue suit, and tie. His so-called friends walked alongside him, looking at me with those disgusting eyes as if I were some kind of prey.
"So, this is the younger daughter of the Lark family... truly a beautiful one. How old?"
The man talking was dressed in a fine suit too. Though he looked more robust.
I felt his stare around my body. Those lecherous eyes were making me want to throw up right there, or maybe it was the obsessive ingestion of sugar a few hours ago. My stomach hurt.
"Seventeen."
My older brother answered and looked at me with hatred. He should disguise it a little, right? I am his blood sister.
"Come here, lady, why don't you join us and be part of the fun."
"I pass."
I didn't care to be polite, they were just a bunch of snobbish and two-faced people. I have more important things to do than waste my time with them. Hannah, I need some stomach medicine.
"Little lady, we just want to talk with you for a bit. How about a drink?"
"I am underage, and no, I don't like to speak with drunkards."
The men behind him started laughing mockingly. I could see his eyes turning cold.
"Ian, didn't you say she was your sister, how come she behaves so unladylike?"
Ian narrowed his eyes even more. The ice he was throwing at me was enough to freeze the entire room, but I chose to ignore him. Who cares if he was mad or felt humiliated?
I turned my back to him as I was prepared to leave, but again, he was determined to not let me go.
"Come here," he said in his imitation of my father's voice, "is this how our family educated you?"
I couldn't help but smirk. "Oh, come on, big bro, don't be angry. We both know those words are utter trash..."
I saw his raged eyes become more furious. However, I could sense a hint of surprise hidden in his corneas.
Well, of course, he should be shocked, the original Eve never talked back to him. She was scared of her older brother the most.
Anyway, I didn't want to have anything to do with him or his friends. I began walking to my room.
"Come here right now, you are my sister and have to obey my orders or be prepared to face the consequences."
He smirked when I stopped and turned around to face him.
"Please, an asshole with no real talent like you doesn't deserve to call me sister," I smirked when his face became red with ire.
The young men around him were hiding their laughs behind their hands. How does it feel to be humiliated?
"What do you mean?"
"C'mon, you know what I mean. What? Don't you remember that guy… how was his name? Oh right, Lucas…"
What an amazing expression. Now the red face turned white in a second.
He surely couldn't even imagine that I knew his dirty little secret. Lucas Ferguson was his Personal Assistant, but the truth was that they started their career at the same time at grandpa's company.
However, unlike my brother, Lucas was extraordinarily talented. He rose very quickly inside the ranks of the company and gained a lot of recognition from top seniors and project leaders.
His mistake was, however, to trust the wrong people. He was naive and a bit innocent, and he was a newbie in playing dirty.
Most of those executives inside the company didn't know why he decided to resign from his post and become a lowly Personal Assistant of a youngster like Ian. It was a shame when he was a promising talent.
My curiosity and need to get something on Ian to make him stop annoying me led me to dig for info on Lucas, and what I found out was very interesting.
As I guessed, Ian, the scum, used Lucas's sister's infatuation for him to take pictures of her, very indecent pictures. Then he threatened to publish them and sell them to dirty bastards.
Lucas couldn't let that happen and helped Ian rise inside the company, and eat all his achievements.
However, hehe... I said I wanted to help Lucas, didn't I? I already erased every trace of his sister's pictures.
"You…" Ian grabbed my arm and led me to another room. I let him do it once, but if he dared to touch me again, I will break his wrist, just like James. "What do you know?!"
I pulled my arm quickly. There were no words how to describe the feeling of letting someone like him, scum of the earth, touch my arm.
"I know everything about Samantha and your little extortion play."
"How did you know?"
"Doesn't matter, I get to know and…" I crossed my arms. "I also know many other things you did with the Torek family brothers. What do you think father will say if he finds out?"
He went pale again.
"You are lying… how did you…"
"You don't have to believe me. Look."
I sent my elder brother a very compromising video of him accepting the bribing of many competitors. I bet he is shitting his pants right now.
"Now, from this day on, don't even think of talking to me or I will send this to everyone in the family, especially grandpa. And… don't think I have this video only on my phone, I wasn't the one who recorded it, someone else sent it to me. I asked that person to let you go, but if you do something to me, he will be very mad."
I turned around and left.