A Love Trap

Lena berated her mother Peggy in her head. 'If it weren't for your arrogance and ignorance, we wouldn't be in this position!' Lena believed that if Peggy didn't make the decision by herself, Andrew would not marry Ashley in the first place!

To Lena, marriage was just a contract printed on a piece of paper—nothing more, nothing less. Since it didn't mean much to her, she didn't mind being the third person in their marriage. As long as she tried hard, Andrew would divorce Ashley. After all, Ashley had, and was, nothing.

It was obvious that Andrew was only interested in her for the time being because of how she looked.

The next day, Andrew drove Ashley to her bakery, as usual.

"I will pick you at five this afternoon," Andrew said.

Ashley was busy unbuckling her seat belt. Because of that, she didn't bother to lift her head to look at him, and instead, she mindlessly responded, "I think I will go home by myself today. After work, Ellie and I are going to visit her grandparents."

Actually, Ashley was a little afraid of telling him that. Narrowing his eyes, Andrew took a deep breath and said, "Okay." Ashely was about to let out a sigh of relief when Andrew suddenly added, "But it might be hard for you to get a taxi there. I will ask Johnny to pick you up."

With that, Ashley just nodded as she tried to avoid any eye contact with Andrew. After she gathered all her things, she bid goodbye to Andrew. "Okay then, I'll be leaving now. Bye!"

As she tried to open the car door, she discovered that it was locked. Confused, she turned and looked at Andrew. He looked at her, lifted one of his brows and smiled at her teasingly. She pursed her lips, looked outside and looked back at him again. She quickly kissed him on the cheek, unlocked the door and left.

Then, she ran as fast as she could into the store.

Andrew was not fully satisfied with the kiss, but he was glad that they had started to act like a couple.

Seeing Andrew's car leave, Ashley was about to get into the store when a familiar figure came out of a beautiful Ferrari.

Ashley saw this out of the corner of her eyes, and was immediately intrigued as to who it might be. She then hid behind a sign and tried to see who it was. A person stepped out of the driver's side. The guy slowly walked to the passenger side and opened the door. Then, Ellie walked out. 'What's happening?' Ashley thought to herself as she looked on.

Ellie continued on her way to the store, so Ashley quickly walked in so that Ellie wouldn't find her.

so early to drive you here! Hey!" Francis started protesting. He was wearing a red t-shirt, which suited his gorgeous face very well. As he said that, he was leaning against the car, with his brows slightly raised and a cynical smile on his face. Truly, he was such

in her tracks, slowly turned around, and calmly said, "You volunteered yourself. I didn't ask you

She never asked. Francis became obviously flustered. He stood in silence as if he didn't know how

past few days, he had followed her pretty much everywhere. This particular morning, something weird came over him, and he didn't know what

hour, he tried his best to persuade Ellie to let him take her to work. Since Ellie was about to be late because of him, so she had no choice but to

to think about

what his real intentions were, Ellie let out a huge sigh, turned around and entered the bakery.

second she walked through the door, Ashley pulled her to the side. With her eyes squinted and a smart look on her face, she asked, "Hey sis. You'd better catch me up with what's going

talking about? What did

here? When did you start

face of Ellie's man. Despite that, Ashley

the giddy Ashley and said calmly, "He is nobody but

in deep thought, she questioned Ellie further, "A stranger? No stranger would pick up a girl at her house and

in her eyes. She looked at her best friend, and started begging,

was already a resigned look on Ellie's face. Soon enough, her lips curved into a helpless smile. Rolling her eyes playfully, she responded, "There is nothing going on between us, Ashley. And there is nothing for you

It was my first time seeing you to be so close to a man! You have to

me. You are an adult,

tone, she responded, "We are different, and we want different things in our lives. I don't believe happily ever after. I also don't want to waste

someone so

raging alcoholic. Every time he lost in the casino, he would get drunk and physically abuse her and her mother. Even if she was extremely young then, he

times that that happened, Ellie's mother would try to protect her. She would fight back against her husband. But her resistance brought out a more dangerous devil from her husband. They would be beaten up more, so she finally gave up and just put up with it. She stopped fighting and

Thus, she took her anger out on Ellie.

way to avoid her father. She would dress herself up and leave the house