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.

myself a 'thank you' from you for getting up 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 a beautiful man that many

Upon hearing Francis' sentiments, she stopped in her tracks, slowly turned around, and calmly

became obviously flustered. He stood in silence as if he didn't know how

particular morning, something weird came over him, and he didn't know what it was, but he somehow got up, came to Ellie's door and was more

an 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,

Francis became stunned. Then, he started to think about why he was so shamelessly trying to drive

Francis pondered on what his real intentions were, Ellie let out a huge sigh, turned around

eyes squinted and a smart look

about? What did you

here? When did you start seeing

look at the face of Ellie's man. Despite that, Ashley thought that he looked very

giddy Ashley and said

Pouting her lips as if in deep thought, she questioned Ellie further, "A stranger? No stranger would pick up a girl at her house and drive her to work! He is clearly into you

were already in her eyes. She looked at her best friend, and started begging, "Please tell me! Please! I am just so curious! I also want

lips curved into a helpless smile. Rolling her eyes playfully, she responded, "There is nothing going

you to be so close to a man! You have to

she followed her and said, "You know you don't have to hide from me. You are an adult, and I think it's time for you to think about your future. Seeing a man is a good start! If you two get along well, you can go ahead and get married with him and have

"We are different, and we want different things in our lives. I

her parents divorced. For someone

father was a notorious gambler and a 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

to protect her. She would fight back against her husband. But her resistance brought out a more dangerous devil

hated her life, but she couldn't escape from it. Thus, she took her anger out on Ellie. Before long, she would also abuse her

to avoid her father. She would dress herself up and leave the house in the morning. Then, she would come back