*Bzzzzzz! *Bzzzzzz! *Bzzzzzz! *Bzzz-*
"Hello?" a soft morning broke the silence in the quiet room when Hannah picked up her phone to answer the call on its fourth buzz.
Still curled up under her blankets, Hannah's small palm rubbed her still-half-closed eyelids lightly like a little kitten, having just awoken from a hard night of partying.
"You finally answered your phone, Señorita! I was so worried when you didn't come home the entire night! You did not even tell us where you are!" Hearing Arthur's loud voice, every ounce of sleepiness left on Hannah's body was immediately washed away as she rushed to sit up on the bed.
When she sat up, a wave of nausea washed over her, followed by a tremendous headache that made her groan in pain.
She has no recollection of how much she drank the previous night, but she is painfully aware of every ache and pound in her brain.
"Are you alright? Nothing wrong happened, right?" Arthur asked, despite his unfinished rant, when he heard Hannah's groan.
"Everything is fine, Arthur. I'll go home later, but don't worry, I'm with everyone. I will rest more for a while since it's still quite early- Oh my god, Arthur! I'm late!" Hannah exclaimed as soon as she saw the wall clock hanging in front of the bed that she was sitting on.
Without waiting for Arthur to say anything else, Hannah bid him a quick goodbye before she dropped the call and ran to the bathroom to take a quick bath.
The noises that she made as she did so woke up her cousin, who was peacefully sleeping beside her.
"What's the matter, Hannah?" Alliana asked while slowly sitting up on the bed.
Alliana's bed hair looks a little crazy, but that only adds to her youthful appearance and doesn't hinder her beauty in any way, even though she can hardly open her eyes from how sleepy she is.
"What's happening?" Frost asked as he also sat up in the bed.
It turns out that it's not only Alliana whose sleep has been disturbed. Even Frost and Olivia, who were peacefully cuddling as they slept on the other bed, have been awoken by the sound of Hannah's movement.
However, no answer was heard as Hannah hurriedly slammed the door shut and opened the shower.
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One hour later, Hannah had finally arrived at the practice room in their company. She did her best and tried to finish everything that she had to do and arrive on time, but unfortunately, she was still ten minutes late.
With a soft exhale, Hannah gently knocked on the mahogany door of the practice room before pushing it open with a wildly thumping heart.
Upon walking in, she was immediately met by a sharp gaze filled with annoyance.
"I'm sorry for being late, Lykha and Khian," she apologized.
"It's fine. Go and wear your heels. I'm sure you can easily follow," Lykha, her instructor, said.
Thinking to herself that the ten minutes that she was late had already widened the gap between her and the others, Hannah wasted no more time and rushed to wear her six-inch nude heels.
When she was done, she rushed to her place and began doing what the other girls were doing. Fortunately for her, she can still easily catch up with what the other girls are doing, just like her instructor said.
"Seems like you are getting too soft with them, Lykha. Miss Hannah is indeed a beauty but you shouldn't let her act however she wants" the dashing twenty-seven-year-old young man sneered as he glared at Hannah's back.
His sarcastic remarks were heard by Hannah, but she couldn't care less about his opinion and said nothing about it. Instead, she simply focused and turned her entire attention to what she was doing, quietly following the instructor's guidance.
The beautiful young lady, however, who is working hard and only cares about learning from her instructor, is completely unaware of the fact that not only did she unintentionally elicit bad blood between her and the spectator of her class, but that six kilometers away from where she is, a brewing storm has begun to form and is threatening to pour over her due to her sister's activities last night.
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On the other side of the city, in a modern mansion hidden deep inside a forest on top of a mountain, a half-naked man is currently sitting on a wine-colored couch with all of his tattoos on display.
The darkness in his eyes is hidden beneath his dark brown hair, but the ominous danger that he's omitting cannot be concealed, causing the temperature of the entire house to drop.
"Woah, woah, woah! Why are you frowning, big boss?" a man exclaimed upon arriving at the mansion's living room and seeing the terrifying look on his friend's face.
"What are you talking about, Richard? You know Ivan's always-mmp!" Before the second man could even finish what he was saying, the third man, who entered the mansion after them, was quick to cover his mouth and the mouth of the guy named Richard.
"I'm sorry about them, Ivan. These two had been drinking a little too much and weren't in their right mind," the man apologized.
The third man had a nervous grin on his face as he looked at their friend, who was still sitting on the couch. A lit cigarette was held between his right hand's fingers, and a glass of scotch was held in his left.
Instead of getting angry, however, the man named Ivan simply smiled and said, "It's fine. It looks like you guys had a good time tonight"
"That's right. Then, I'll be taking them up to their rooms first," the man said, excusing himself and his two other friends before he quickly started walking upstairs while slightly dragging them, their mouths still covered.
Not long after the three of them went to their respective rooms, another man entered the mansion and went straight to the living room.
"What a horrendous smile you're wearing," the man teased upon seeing the smile on his friend's face that didn't have a single trace of sincerity in it, but once again, Ivan didn't get mad. Instead, he just calmly poured him a full glass of scotch.
"Good evening to you as well, Daniel," Ivan said as Daniel sat on the couch in front of him and placed a brown envelope on top of the table in front of them.
"Now, tell me everything that you found out about the girl," he ordered as he handed him the glass of scotch that he had poured.
"Ivan, I don't think you should touch the girl. It's-" Daniel started, setting aside the drink that Ivan gave him, but before he could even finish what he was trying to say, Ivan cut him off.
"I don't remember asking you for your opinion, Daniel,"
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Author's Note
Yikes! What a snappy man Ivan seems to be. Will Hannah be safe now that she is being scouted by the man? But before that, how did she even anger Ivan in the first place? Just what happened at Frost's birthday party?
Are you curious as well? Then, keep on reading and find out the answer to your questions. I promise that I won't disappoint you guys. Happy reading, cuties!