A Love Trap

'This is the most efficient way to make Fiona shut up!' Ashley thought with a victorious smile visible on her lips.

Seeing the way Ashley treated Fiona, Ellie rolled her eyes at her disapprovingly.

However, Ashley just grinned back mischievously. 'Got a problem with that?' she thought.

The trio ran into Rita, and she was looking a lot less confident and much less cocky than she had been yesterday.

Ashley gave her a vague glance, thinking, 'It looks like the tides have turned, after just one day. But it's wrong to gloat over other's misfortune.'

Sensing Ashley's gaze on her, Rita looked at her with a blank expression on her face and then looked away.

'She must hate me very much.

But it's not my fault. She brought it all on herself!' Ashley thought.

The time had passed in the blink of an eye and it was already dusk. The three girls stood in front of the Luo Group's building preparing to bid each other goodbye.

"Ellie, Ashley, see you tomorrow," Fiona said cheerfully, waving to them.

Her house was in the opposite direction to where Ashley and Ellie lived. But since the girls were all good friends, they would always walk out of the company together and then go their separate ways.

"Bye. See you!" Ellie and Ashley replied in unison.

They watched Fiona for a brief moment as she walked down the street and then they too headed to their apartment.

Ashley and Ellie rented an apartment in close proximity to the company. It made it more convenient for them to walk to and from work every day. It would normally only take them around ten minutes to get home at strolling pace.

On the way home, they chatted happily with each other.

All of a sudden, Ellie stopped and asked, "Now, can you tell me how on earth you managed to pull that off?"

expression that implied, that she wasn't going to give her any other

look. She had seen it many times before, so she didn't dare try to hide

day when I visited the

because I had something else that I had

back. I ran into someone- a

his clothes and he smelled terrible. But there was something about his eyes, they were so kind and shone so brightly and beautifully. I guessed that he would have been hungry, so I gave him

while she held Ashley by the arm. She gaped at

down, Ellie?" Ashley said through clenched teeth as she

remark had drawn the attention of the many

of her, she felt self-conscious

breath to compose herself and after

only gave him my QQ account. Anyway, a long time has passed since that day that I ran into him and to be honest

he came to J City to visit his relatives but got mugged. He lost everything and that was why he was in such a bad way. Later on, he managed to contact his relatives and recover some of his things. He thanked me for helping him and we would chat through QQ

computers and offered his skills to me if I ever needed them. And that's pretty much it,"

said shrugging

room after work yesterday. And here I was thinking that she was upset because of

came to J City to visit his relatives and was mugged!

if that guy had ill intentions and hurt Ashley? She really put herself in unnecessary risk. Thank goodness that nothing bad happened to her, ' she

like a really nice guy. I bet he isn't the evil person that you imagine him to be," Ashley responded in her own

you can't judge a person by his appearance. If there were no bad people in the world, then we wouldn't see policemen everywhere," Ellie snapped in

at me. I've learnt my lesson," Ashley said in a pleading voice, as she shook Ellie's

usually only took ten minutes to get home, but since they kept stopping to talk about Ashley's new friend, it

the house, her

who could be calling her at this hour.

glanced down at the caller ID on the screen, her good mood suddenly

and made her way into the kitchen to start cooking dinner for them.

answered the phone, an irritated voice screeched