Holding her shaky breaths, Mantisha tried hard to stand steadily. The guilt conscience in her heart was completely gone.
He dared to take advantage of her, while she was still guilty and apologizing to him. How could he be so tyrannical.
He still had the gaze of blank paper. It was like a firm wall blocking all his emotions of his face. But if noticing carefully, a light trace of smirk can be found on his blank eyes.
Mantisha glared at him hard. She wanted to scold him, but she was at fault by the start. She could not possibly blame him for a sin she just did right? In her frustration, she pointed her finger to him,
"You... You... You are so ugly." She said, finally completing her dare and blowing out her dissatisfaction in one go.
Another bomb was exploded. Everybody sucked their breaths. Hiding behind a pillar, Megan almost cried. Judy had no idea where to see or what to do. Only Albert keep staring to that man, he did not even bat his eyelids.
That man went silent. It seemed like the aura around him changed. Mantisha seemed to have sensed it this time. She blinked her eyes twice. She seemed to fight really well to keep her sane.
On that moment, the man, busy on his call had returned. As he was totally oblivious to this situation, he stopped in front of that man and asked, "What's the matter second brother? Why are you still standing here?"
Suddenly he seemed to have noticed Mantisha.
"Wow wow! Who is this little kitten by the way? Wait, why is she standing here while glaring at you so hard?"
Mantisha puffed her cheeks as anger rose from the bottom of her heart. She had been sensitive to the comments about her height since childhood. She might be adorable, but she was not like a little kitten okay?
"You... You..." She pointed her fingers at him as she stammered.
The man in flashy clothes cocked his eyebrows. "Who? Me? Yes..."
Mantisha was completely enraged by his attitude. "Forget it. Hick... I do not have time to talk with the minions." She crossed her arms as she could not find anymore words.
This time Andrew was the one who became speechless. He was a young master from one of the most respected family of this country. Since when did he become a minion!
"Who did you call a minion?" Furrowing his brows, Andrew asked in a irked tone.
"The one who just followed back someone, to remind him that he is late, and tried to please him." Mantisha retorted back.
Andrew was completely enraged. His felt that he was loosing his temper. The audacity of hers!
"When did I follow someone and when did I try to please someone?" Andrew almost screamed.
Mantisha was a polite girl to began with. But in the influence of alcohol, she also lost her cool. Besides today's incidents really knocked her hard.
"You, you, you. It's you. Did not you body shame me just now. Just because I was glaring at your sorry of an excuse of a friend. Oops... My bad. Your master. Ha ha." Mantisha also screamed back. The last part of her words were ended in a mocking tone.
This commotion drew attention to the other individuals there. Vincent seemed to have understood that they were not someone who could interfere with those people at the front gate. He did not want to show his face to them either. That D' Morgan's were really not simple, and Andrew was especially well known for his wrath. So he ran back and came with a few hotel stuffs.
Andrew was stunned. He was not sure about if he encountered someone crazy or mentally unstable here. He tugged that man's sleeves, as he murmured near his ear,
"Second bro, what were you doing with this girl here! She has gone crazy. She is either very drunk, or she has some screws loose in her..." He pointed at his head, but soon he realised something, so said, "In her head or something."
The hotel stuffs arrived at that time. This was not a famous restaurant with a few Micheline Stars with it. They did not have securities in front of the gate, nor did they have so experienced stuffs to attend such bigshot guests. They did not realise how important these guests are, but since Master Vincent had said so, the men outside must be some people they did not dare to offend. So they could only ease the situation by scolding the girl here.
"What is happening? Why are you guys causing some ruckus here? This is a business hour, do not you know that?" The man barked as he saw Mantisha there. He recognised her immediately. She had came here by herself or with her friends, including with Master Vincent and Young Master Herbert earlier. She was one of their regular customers.
He initially thought to soothe her but when his gaze brushed pass to those men, his breath hitched. 'Gosh, the man in black is so scary! He seems to ready to devour this petty girl whole.'
Mantisha had never been so insulted before. She was a bright student, her college topper. The special student who got eighty percent scholarship to come to study M.St on C University. And if this trend continued, she hoped to get research fellowship with a sponsor to pursue her doctoral course too.
And that brat dared to say she had some screws loose in her head! She was mentally unstable!
"Do you have eyes like a Vulture that you have seen my loose screws hanging?" Mantisha did not bother to look at the stuffs as she felt, now that they had arrived, she would be safe. So she barked with all her might. "Then again, I really have not seen a Vulture so colourful that even little clowns would be ashamed to show their colourful baby faces."
"This is bad, this is really bad." Judy tried to run towards Mantisha, but Vincent cought her.
"Leave me Vincent, she may not know Young Master D' Morgan. She had just come into this country one and a half years ago after all. Even if she manages to get away today, Andrew D' Morgan will bury her alive tomorrow. Let me take her here, with us."
Serena was silent. But this time, she finally spoke.
"If you do not want to be buried with her tomorrow, shut the f**k up and wait here."
"And who was at fault for this? To give her such a dare to accomplish, while she was already vulnerable." Megan asked back, and struggled to go to her too, but Max stopped her.
"Anyway, it is her bad that she did not understand the depth of the situation, and she entangle with such scary men. Even now, we still do not have any idea that from which branch is that man from Wilson family belongs. It is better to be shut for now."
On the other side, Andrew completely lost his cool. He was blessed to have a baby face. Even his mustache did not grow out properly till date. He got laughed and teased by his friends in their friendly gatherings. But still, nobody dared to make a comment on his dressing sense. This da**ed girl not even questioned his attires, but also pointed her finger at his looks!
"Youuu..." He pointed a finger towards her as he tried to find something to beat her up. But suddenly he felt the man beside her moving.
When he looked at him, his jaws almost dropped in surprise.
"Your voice sounds melodious even when you are screaming." He bent over slightly as his face grew closer to her ear.
After that, in a barely audible voice, he told while smirking, "I wonder, how would you sound while screaming in pleasure."
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If you have any confusion about the names and places, let me make it clear.
Mantisha and her mother, Sylvia is from India. Her biological father, Danish is a university professor, as well as a respected deputy director in a top rated University in India. Her grandfather is in his superannuation period and he was a judge in a High Court of a state.
Adi, was also from India, to be precise from countryside, he was her mother's senior in her college. They had a crush on each other and they both were aware of it. But when he finally mastered up his courage and went back to confess, by then Sylvia's marriage of convenience was set and she had to exchange her college as well as the city because of changing the states.
Here, Mantisha came to read in A Country, at C University. For example, you can guess C University as something like Cambridge University or Oxford University (after a thorough background research, I found out that Cambridge University and Oxford University offer MSt courses for part time masters degree to those who are in need for a short term course before applying for doctoral degrees. And as our female lead had to do some work to earn, I chose MSt instead of M.Phil.
The Tang family clan is originally from China, in my story, I'll say that they're from Sanghai later. And they live in A Country as residents from Old Master Tang's days of youth.
In the later chapters, a half chinese person is going to come, and he'll be one of the most influential characters in this novel. He would be an immigrant, turned into a resident.
Even if the names of the lanes, malls, places, and Universities are real, but the incidents and persons I am mentioning here are completely made by my speculations. Neither I have any actual idea if these places originally belong or not, nor do they have any connections to the places or Universities in the original world. I don't have much idea about places so I've used name codes instead of some real names. Because I do not want to hear some reader saying this street doesn't belong here, or this university doesn't contain any topics on this subject like this later. I really don't have any idea about it and I admit that.
Of course you can change the names in your mind to something you'd easily remember. I was just saying those to create examples.
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I think many of you already have an idea about who he is. What do you think about their first encounter?
What's gonna happen next, any idea folks?
Also, can I ask for some votes? Pretty please?