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?"

the outside, but felt deeply vulnerable inside. She was afraid that Ashley would be bullied by her family, especially Lena. She never got along with Ashley since she was a child and always tried to take everything from

was more, Lena tended to play the victim in front of other people to get compassion.

me." She knew what Ellie was worried about and didn't want to get her involved in

mind to

spent a long time telling Ashley to take care of herself in

—

and prepared herself to go to her family's house.

J city where they lived. Spencer, who was Ashley's foster father, was the president of the Mu Group and Lena was his

families,

was very expensive. The Mu family had been excited for a long time after they had bought a villa there. Ashley still remembered how long Lena had bragged

to a neighborhood close by the Splendor Gardens. People who lived there were rich and powerful, so they all

closest bus stop and walked the rest of the way

from the bus stop to the Mu family villa. As she walked there, she enjoyed the beautiful flowers

because every time she went to the family house, nothing

the pleasant scenery on the way,

blowing a gust of wind and dust around forcing her to close her eyes. Ashley thought that it was lucky it hadn't

there, staring at

her breath, thinking how ironic it was to run into Lena this

opened the car door and got out, then walked happily toward

fancy running into you here. I wasn't sure that it was you." Lena held her hand warmly then turned to Raymond who was sitting in the driver's seat and said,"Raymond, it's Ashley.

his grip on the steering wheel. He pressed his

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