Snare of Love novel Chapter 3

After changing, Dolores got out of the changing room and once again looked towards the changing room at the left. The door was already tightly closed. “It matches your temperament.” The salesperson had a good judgment and taste in fashion; she could pick the clothes that fit her customers by just looking at them. The long pale blue dress Dolores wore made her skin look even paler. The ribbon around her waist had highlighted her slim waist. She looked a bit underweight but her looks was already delicate.

Feeling satisfied of the dress choice, Randolph went to pay for the dress. He then only realized the dress cost more than thirty thousand yuan. But having thought that it was the Nelson family she was going to meet, he gritted his teeth and paid the money. He then spoke with a cold voice. “Let’s go.” Dolores had long felt his cruelty, yet the indifference still made her slightly uncomfortable and heartache. She lowered her head and followed after him to the car.

The car soon stopped at the main entrance of the Flores villa. The chauffeur opened the car door for Randolph. Randolph stooped and got out of the car followed by Dolores. Standing in front of the villa, Dolores was in a trance for a few seconds. When she and her mother had been living a hell-like life due to her brother’s illness, her father was happily living in such a stylish villa enjoying life with the other woman. She could not help but clench her fists.

“Why are you still standing there?” Having sensed that she was not following him, Randolph turned and saw her stupefied at the entrance. Dolores quickly went after him. Being told that the Nelson family still had not arrived by the maidens, Randolph made her wait at the living room.

A piano was placed near the French window of the living room. It was from Seidel and was made in Germany. The price was exorbitant. It was bought by her mother for her during her fifth birthday. She liked it since young and started learning piano when she was four and a half years old. After being sent away, she had not touched piano ever since. She could not help but extend her hand towards it, feeling familiar and excited at the same time. She slightly exerted force on her forefinger which was placed on a piano key and a melodious crispy sound was heard. Because she had not played it for a long time, her fingers had been very stiff.

“Who’s allowed you to touch my thing?” A loud and clear voice with anger was heard behind her. Her thing? Dolores turned and saw Annabelle Flores standing behind her with aggression. She remembered she was one year younger than her and had turned seventeen this year. She had inherited Beulah Shawn’s good looks. It was just that her contorted face had made her looked quite ferocious at the moment.

“Yours?” They had destroyed her mother’s marriage and spent the money that was supposed to be theirs. And now even her mother’s gift to her had become hers now? She slowly clenched her fists and secretly kept on telling herself not to act on impulse because she still had no capability to seize the things belonged to her now. She had to endure it! She was no longer the little girl that only knew how to cry after being abandoned by her father eight years ago, she had now grown up!

“You’re…Dolores Flores?” Annabelle only then remembered that today was the day the Nelson family came and her father had brought Dolores and her mother back here. She could still remember Dolores’s pitiful look when Randolph wanted to send them abroad. She was kneeling on the ground while putting her arms around Randolph’s leg, pleading him not to send her away.

“Are you extremely happy now when dad finally brings you back?” Annabelle crossed her arms in front of her chest and stared at her with contempt. “You shouldn’t be happy though, as the reason dad brings you back is to let you marry the son of the Nelson family, and it’s said that the son---” As she spoke, she covered her mouth and jeered. She could not help but gloat over her misfortune when she had to marry a disabled man. Marriage is a big lifetime event, having married such a man would mean the rest of her life was ruined.