You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

Splash!

He splashed Clarissa’s feverish body with cold water, waking her up from a moment of stupor.

She looked up to see the man whom she had latched on to standing right in front of her.

The man removed his coat and tossed it to the ground. Looking tall and handsome, he was dressed in a white shirt and a pair of black suit pants. He had chiseled features like those of a male model, and his eyes especially looked astute and callous.

“Sober now?” His voice was extremely cold and stern.

“I’m sorry,” Clarissa said in embarrassment.

She had just gotten off the plane to visit her mother whom she hadn’t seen for years. Yet never in her wildest dream did she expect her mother to drug and deliver her to the bed of a perverted old man.

Confused and delirious, she had grabbed hold of a stranger.

If not for this fine gentleman, she wouldn’t dare to imagine what would become of her now.

Clarissa huddled in the bathtub and lowered her head to hide the pain in her eyes, not realizing how seductive she looked with her dress clinging damply to her skin.

Matthew squinted his eyes. Is she really not trying to seduce me?

“Mr. Tyson.” Donnie’s voice sounded at the bathroom door. “The doctor and the clothes are here.”

“Thank you,” Clarissa piped up as she lifted her head. “I’m so sorry for the trouble.”

There was no need for explanation because they were only strangers to each other. She had noticed the man’s inquisitive and derisive gaze, reckoning that he would only misunderstand her for having an ulterior motive if she were to explain herself.

A female doctor came in just as Matthew was about to leave the bathroom. She put the clothes aside and gave Clarissa a jab before leaving shortly after.

already empty by the time Clarissa had changed her clothes and trudged out of

what was I

to go back to the Garretts’, but she had no other choice as she needed to retrieve her

still have the audacity

the peaceful

Yvonne, who had said

here to take

walked past the living room, wanting to head back to her room, but Yvonne blocked her way and landed a stinging slap across her

her head up in a

you’re doing? How dare you disappear on such an important occasion last night? We were trying to get you a boyfriend. Do you know who that man is? Do you know how much trouble you have caused us? Do you know how humiliating it was for

so important, why didn’t you

balding and beefy old

“Why you—”

up,” Zach interrupted before his daughter could

you heard that older men are wiser and they’re much gentler towards women? You have nothing to worry

the woman beside him, Hilary—her biological mother—a

need it,” she said, then returned to her room to retrieve her suitcase that was left untouched since

the day before, the Garetts had taken to a hotel for a meal

into her room and was grabbing her by the arm. “You can’t just stay in that small city and do nothing for the rest of your life, right? It’s a waste of

shook her hand off relentlessly. “Is this

“I…”

had already walked away

of the Garretts

Clary’s mother. That’s a fact. We need to plan and think wisely

snorted. “She’s

daughter, but I’m very much in love with your father,

“Of course,” Zach smiled.