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.

there.” Like a loving father, Braxton comforted her daughter, “Sage has just returned, and you should let her be

but she

and daughter. She crossed her arms and asked

turned their heads at the same time. Both of

toward Yeva and said, “If you behave crazily in the middle of the night, I’ll assume that you are merely sleepwalking. If there is a next time, I’ll be sure to dunk you in a tub of ice water so that you’ll

she looked at the father and daughter, “now that you’re staying in my house, you will play by my rules. I’m a light sleeper, and I don’t want to hear any sounds or noises at night. If you can’t follow

the guest room,

“Dad, she—”

had the urge to grab Sage by the hair and fight it out, but Braxton held her back.

closed the door as she dried her hair and fumed. “Dad, are we supposed

upset over the vase Sage had broken. The vase had been worth almost a hundred thousand dollars!

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

Uncle Sawyer and his wife? I even had to butter up Sage Norah. I swear, I’m never going back to those

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

and she’s got no support. What are

she treated us? I’m sure she must have caught onto something, and now, she’s back for revenge. If we don’t get rid of her now, I’m afraid that we’ll be the ones in danger! Before she gains more

the guest room reflected the

Braxton’s eyes 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