Raindrops fell lightly on two bright-colored umbrellas, creating a rhythmic sound that was quite pleasant to the ears. Under the umbrellas, Vivi and Zoey looked tidy and noble. In contrast to the two of them, Ximena looked rather disheveled at that moment. Without anything to shelter her from the rain and with the muddy water smudged by the cars, she was just like a drowned mouse, damp and shivering. Despite the expensive tailor-made clothes she wore, one would feel sorry at the sight of her at that moment.
However, she didn't mind and did not even consider herself as inferior to the two women in front of her. They were obviously no good leveled to her. Without the least care about her own awful appearance, she even raised her chin slightly and looked coldly at Vivi. The lass, on the other hand, pretended to be an innocent girl but was in fact treacherous. One could figure out her nature and character at first glance. As for Ximena, she had seen enough of such kind of women. In a plain tone, she said, "If you're coming to warn me or something like that, I'm afraid you're targeting the wrong person because it is not me who has the right to make decisions. If you come to tell me not to fall in love with Aaron, I have nothing to say either, because sometimes a man and a woman can get together even without love. Of course..." she paused, creating suspense. Seeing the changing expressions on Vivi's face, she sneered at her and continued, "If you plan to give me a check with an extremely large amount of money and tell me that it is time for me to stop acting as Aaron's plaything, I'm willing to think about it." Ximena whispered with a coquettish smile on her face.
Red with fury, Vivi snarled, "You're really shameless," Vexed as she was, her face kept changing colors like a color palette, while a tinge of cruelty could be seen deep in her clear eyes.
"Yes, I am shameless," lifting her chin a little higher, Ximena said with raised eyebrows. She didn't care about Vivi's abuse after all. Looking at her with her sarcastic eyes, she scoffed at her, "But aren't we just the same? Aren't you shameless too? If you are such a shy little lady and care about your reputation, you should not have followed Aaron and caused me trouble after he left. Right?"
"You..." Speechless, Vivi was not able to contradict Ximena's statements, because what Ximena had said was totally true. Ashamed into anger, she could do nothing but raise her hand, intending to slap Ximena.
In a cold manner, Ximena warded off her hand before she could do what she intended to do. As a result of her unsteady center of gravity, Vivi staggered backward and knocked down on the car despite Zoey's quick reaction to pull her with her hands.
"Don't act wildly in front of me," Ximena said and snorted at Vivi. "If you annoy me more and continue to make me feel unhappy, maybe I will have a change of heart and be more determined to seduce the man you dream of!"
"You.. you're such a….." Vivi was too angry to know what to say right away.
"You're a bitch!" giving her an angry stare, Zoey shouted at Ximena. "Is my elder brother somebody you can play with?"
Completely ignoring the bluster of the two women in front of her, Ximena smirked at them and said, "For the moment, it seems that he is. And I am enjoying it." Looking down at them with an air of arrogance, Ximena answered Zoey with a cold tone. With the rain steadily falling, Ximena's hair had been dampened. While the rainwater meandered from her cheeks down to her slender neck and despite her disheveled appearance, Ximena was as arrogant as a queen.
"Aaron won't like such a woman like you." Vivi was so angry that she kept gritting her teeth. Her previously clear eyes were now filled with fury. The expression on her face gives a clear message that she wanted to kill Ximena right on the spot.
"Who...?" Ximena opened her mouth.
"Who said that I wouldn't like such a woman like her?"
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