A Love Trap

After dinner, Ashley received a call from the Mu family and she was asked to come over to the family house tomorrow.

Ashley had moved out of the family house when she started college. She only ever came back when something happened in the family.

She smiled coldly when she spoke on the phone. She was shocked that Peggy had the nerve to call her after what she had done to her and acted like nothing had happened.

"Ashley, did you hear me? Come to the family house tomorrow. Answer me!" Peggy shouted angrily on the other end of the line because she had no response from Ashley, even though she had been talking for quite a while.

Peggy thought Ashley was so defiant.

She had planned to give Ashley to Michael Du as a gift earlier. But she didn't expect that Ashley would run away. As a result, they had lost a lucrative business deal. Peggy decided to teach Ashley a lesson when she came back home.

"Yes, I heard you," Ashley replied indifferently.

Ashley's reaction irritated Peggy and so she cursed her on the phone before she finally hung up on her.

When Ellie saw Ashley hang up the phone she gave her a worried look. "What's the matter? Why do they want you to come back home?"

Ellie had reason to worry. Every time her family called her to visit, there was always some sort of trouble for Ashley, afterward.

"Nothing serious. They just want me to visit. That's all," Ashley reassured her because she could see the worried expression on her face.

At least she was not alone with Ellie by her side.

"Do you need me to go there with you?"

Ashley would be bullied by her family, especially Lena.

Lena tended to play the victim

let them bully me." She knew what Ellie was worried about and didn't want to

right." Since Ashley had already made up her mind to go

to take care of herself in case

—

morning Ashley packed and prepared herself to

had its influence in the J city where they lived. Spencer, who was Ashley's foster father, was the president of the Mu Group and Lena was his daughter. She

to the real notable families,

Mu family had been excited for a long time after they had bought a villa there. Ashley still remembered how long Lena had bragged about it in

and chose to take a bus which took her to a neighborhood close by the Splendor Gardens. People who

stop and walked the rest of

half an hour to walk from the bus stop to the Mu family villa. As she walked there, she enjoyed the

went to the family house,

scenery on the

was near the villa, a car sped past her, blowing a gust of wind and dust around forcing her to close her eyes. Ashley thought that it was lucky it hadn't

eyes when the gust of wind died down. And there, staring at

under her breath, thinking how ironic it was to run into

she had just noticed her. She opened the car door and got out, then walked

held her hand warmly then turned to Raymond who was sitting in the driver's seat

tightened his grip on the steering wheel. He pressed his

together." Lena clasped Ashley's hand and pulled her towards the