A Relentless Pursuit for Love

Chapter 8

Yeva,still clutching the mic in her hand, was drenched from her head to her toes.

Looking at the culprit standing in front of her, Yeva’s lips trembled and she gritted her teeth before yelling at the top of her lungs, “Sage Norah!”

“Are you awake now? If not, I don’t mind getting another bucket of water.”

The music, which was still blasting in the background, was loud enough to wake the entire town. Sage threw the bucket in her hand at the music player. With a loud bang, the music player fell off the desk, startling Yeva.

The deafening music finally came to a stop.

“What happened? What’s going on?”

Braxton, who had been woken by the loud commotion, came walking into the room. Catching sight of the drenched Yeva, he surmised that his precious daughter was being bullied. “Sage, what are you trying to do?”

“Daddy, she threw a bucket of cold water all over me. I’m freezing!”

Yeva was shivering in the cold as one of the maids hurriedly wrapped her in a blanket. With tears welling up in her eyes, Yeva looked at Braxton pitifully and said, “I couldn’t sleep so I wanted to listen to some music, but Sage didn’t allow me to do even that.”

With that pitiful look on her face, she transformed Sage into the perpetrator.

a loving father, Braxton comforted her daughter, “Sage has just returned, and you should

but she still looked utterly

was unfazed as she watched the “loving” display enacted by father and daughter. She crossed her arms and asked coldly, “Are you guys done with

and Yeva turned their heads at the

Yeva and said, “If you behave crazily in the middle of the night, I’ll assume that you are merely sleepwalking.

my house, you will play by my rules. I’m a light sleeper, and I don’t want to hear any sounds

her piece, Sage left the guest room, leaving the dumbfounded father

“Dad, she—”

had the urge to grab Sage by

the door as she dried her hair and fumed.

had been worth almost a hundred thousand dollars! Who

where we are right now. Do you really want to go back to the

and continued, “Have you forgotten how we had to tiptoe around Uncle Sawyer and his wife? I even had to butter up Sage Norah. I swear, I’m never going back to those

want that to happen? But Sage’s comeback was so sudden and… strange.

she’s got

onto something, and now, she’s back for revenge. If we don’t

room reflected the sinister and

too were filled with a menacing light as he reassured his daughter. “Don’t worry, she’s not powerful enough to take us on. However, if she wishes to stir trouble with me, I shall grant her