“What? Leila was shocked. “Sister, when did it happen?”
“Just now!” Macey shouted hysterically, “Leila, you told me that you’re going to take it back for me. He called me and told me that you made him angry. How?”
“Let me see it!” Leila opened the computer in a hurry. “Macey, tell me the website. I need to look at it!”
“Why bother? He’s such a cruel man!” She cursed but she still told her sister the website. “My face is not shown on it. But I know it’s a warning. What have you done to make him so angry?”
“I...” Leila entered the website and saw the footage. But their faces were mosaicked. Apparently it was tempered. She realized that he was really made. Was it truly because she was in Julian’s car?
She hung up and strode straight into Vincent’s study. “Vincent, what do you want?”
She pushed the door open and questioned him. She was truly angry and wanted to know what was this man’s purpose.
“I’m just having fun!” She saw the smirk on his thin lips. It seemed that he was truly enjoying it. Then he spoke, his voice still aloof and cold. “So now you know the consequence of provoking me?” His expression made her even more angry. But she controlled herself and said, “Please, just stop tormenting her!”
“What will you do for it?” He raised his eyebrows.
She was married to him and she had even knelt before him. What did this man desire after all this?
Tears of sorrow swirled in her eyes. Somehow she felt like crying because she didn’t know why this man had to be so cruel. Tears fell down from her cheeks as she lowered her head. She bit her lips and wiped the tears away. “Just tell me what you want!” She said stubbornly.
“Leila, you have to know that you are in no position to talk back to me!” He crossed his hands and stared at her, the amusement plain in his eyes. He even pitied for her when he saw the stubbornness on her pale and pretty little face.
“I’m not!” She said with a low voice.
“Well, that’s good.” Finally there was a hint of smile in his deep eyes. But there was a condescending quality to it. “From now on, stay away from Julian!”
“We’re just friends!” She explained.
“There was no pure friendship between a man and a woman!”
“Not everyone has so many bedmates like you!” She just could not help arguing.
“You want to make me angry again?” His sudden booming voice startled her. She didn’t dare to say one more word. They were all caught in her throat.
Then, he stood straight and cast her a glace with his starry eyes. He raised his eyebrows and said in a sluggish voice, “I play games slowly, so there will be more fun. You better remember that. Do you want to know how the game will continue?”
“What will you do?” She felt frightened.
“Playing a game!” Vincent strode towards the floor-to-ceiling windows, ignited a cigarette. Then she heard his eerie voice again.
“Do you expect it?”
She clenched her white and tiny hands in to fists. Her teeth sank deep in her lips. The man standing in front of her is a devil!
“Get out!” He had one puff. White smoke curled up in the air as he said it.
She froze, not knowing what to say. So she had to walk out.
Leila didn’t know how she managed to get back to the bedroom. She buried her face under the pillow and tears began running like a river.
If Vincent truly wanted to destroy her sister, how could she face her aunt? Her mom and dad already did something awful to this woman, who died for saving her. Lelia had sworn that she would watch out her sister for her aunt. But now she could not even retrieve the footage. She felt so useless.
“Vincent, come out!” In the quietness of night, she heard her sister shouting below.
“Sis---” She had not expected that Macey would come in the middle of the night. She hurriedly walked down stairs and saw her sister shouting in the hall.
“Vincent, you bastard. Get down here and face me!”
“Sis, please leave now!” She ran downstairs and grabbed her sister’s arm. “Please don’t provoke him, otherwise he might do something worse. Please, go back!”
“And you, get out of my sight! It’s all because you’re an ingrate. I assume you did it on purpose so that I would be humiliated?” Macey suddenly began blaming her sister.
“What? No! Sister, I would never!” She shook her head. She never wanted to humiliate her sister.
“What are you doing in my house in the middle of the night?” Vincent’s voice drifted into their ears. It came from the corner of the second floor.
The sisters raised their head simultaneously and found the man standing there with his hands in his pockets He was looking at them condescendingly, the disdain plain his eyes. “What, you want to see the whole clip? Want your pretty face shown on the screen?”
“Vincent, you’re so vicious!” Macey said it with all her anger. “You’re nothing but a scum!” She cursed while pointing at him.
“Macey, don’t force me to use the hard ways. It will do you no good.” He warned.
“Vincent, I won’t mind now. Wipe the mosaic. I won’t be frightened by your threat!” She sounded not afraid.”
“Macey, don’t----” Leila tried to stop her sister. She could not imagine how Macey would live her life if Vincent uploaded all the footage.
“Piss off!” Macey shoved her sister, who then fell on the ground.
“Vincent, what do you want?” Macey roared.
“Nothing!” He just smiled with that bewitching smirk on the corner of his mouth.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...