chapter 2


    “Michael… Michael Matthews”


    “Huh?”


    Michael chuckled, “Silly woman, didn’t you ask for my name?”


    “Oh yes, I almost gave up on that.” She finally saiding back to her senses. “So why were you


    injured?”


    “I was attackeding from a bar.” He said through gritted teeth. Michael knew it was not done


    randomly, if his thoughts are correct then this has something to do with being the heir to the Matthews’


    Group. He does not have full proof but he will indeed investigate to find the culprit and mastermind


    behind tonight’s incident.


    “Why would you go to the bar alone?” Ariana thought maybe he went to pick up girls. He might be


    a yboy, he has a face for it. ‘I did not notice he was this handsome before, maybe it was the dirt that


    hid his beauty’. Ariana felt inferior to his majestic beauty, it was unfair to females.


    “I was not alone, I just went outside the bar to make a call when I was attacked. I was taken from


    the bar and they left me in the alley to die. They took everything I had on me. It wasn’t much though,


    just my phone and a little cash.” His eyes dimmed while recalling tonight’s incident. ‘Several people


    passed by but only she was brave enough to stop and helped’ he thought to himself. I hope to meet her


    again after the enemies are dealt with.


    “You have to report this. This is serious and you need to go to the hospital in the morning to get


    your wound thoroughly cleaned.” She said in a soft voice. “You can borrow my phone to make a phone


    call so your family can know that you are alright.”


    “No, it’s fine. I will get going in the morning.” ‘I don’t know who my exact enemies are, so I don’t


    want to rm them’ he thought with a gloomy face. “Where can I go and wash up?”


    “Upstairs down the hall to the right. I will get you a fresh set of toiletries and a quilt” she got up and


    went to her room to fetch the items and gave them to him. “I… I will be going to my room. Please


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    remember not to get your wound wet.”


    Michael responded with a nod and went upstairs to freshen up. Ariana went to her room to study.


    She is in her second year at University Hampton of Business.


    Her family owned a small business but her father does not support her much ever since she was a


    little girl. She grew up with her father Ashton Fearon and her mother but when she was just three years


    old her mother disappeared. Father does not talk about her and I am not allowed to discuss or ask


    about her if I do not want to trigger father’s bad temper. After my mother left, father brought home my


    stepmother Ang White and half-sister Gina Fearon. My half-sister is just a few months younger than


    me.


    I hated my father since then. How could he have betrayed mother and me? He brought two vicious


    snakes into our home and they made my life a living hell for every passing day in that goddamn house.


    Thinking about this, I suddenly remember Adam Richards, my ex-boyfriend of three years who is


    now my brother-inw. Due to his Rich family background my stepmother Ang yed tricks to get


    her daughter with him sessfully. They are engaged and supposed to get married after Gina Fearon


    leaves University.


    I was so heartbroken that I cried myself to sleep many nights until I felt like I had gotten over it.


    The worst part of this situation is the fact that Adam was not firm enough to hold onto our rtionship. I


    can still remember his words in my head, “Ariana, Gina and I are getting engaged.” I am sorry it took


    me so many years to see the kind of monster he is. Shameless!


    As soon as I got through to University Hampton of Business, I left without looking back. Hopefully


    in the next two years I can go back to the familypany to work. My parents build thepany with


    their own sweat.


    I got part time jobs to buy food and daily necessities. I got into the University through a schrship


    for the past two years and I have to work my ass off to keep it. Emily paid most of the rent and I felt bad


    about it. She is moving back to her parents’ home per her father’s request in a few days and I will need


    to move back to my dormitory. I cannot pay the rent and afford food all by myself. Emily offered to pay it


    for me but I cannot have her do that. She is such a sweetheart when she is not angry. Ariana smiled


    thinking of her bestfriend who had always been there for her no matter the situation.


    Ariana finished study for the night and was now ready for bed but before doing so she slightly


    opened her room door and peeped at the man on the couch fast asleep. She then closed her door and


    went to bed.


    When she woke up the next day, she was frightened to see an empty couch. Michael left and there


    was a note “Thank you for your hospitality, you saved my life and I hope to repay you back soon. I


    didn''t even get your name princess but I will know it the next time we meet. Michael”