Little sl*t

With eyes locked on her target, Maisie found it hard to break away from the gaze until after some minutes. She reminded herself of what she was exactly here for.

Her hands found the white box and she gently caressed it as she breathed in sharply.

'You can do this. No one is there right now' She cheered herself on.

The man was by the table all by himself as his guests had just left some while ago. He was twirling the wine with his fingers. A look of boredom on his face.

Isolde who noticed that her friend seemed lost, talked to her. "What is is Maisie? Are you okay?"

At the question, Xavier turned his head to the girl in question and he saw her shook her head with a nervous chuckle.

A few minutes later, she excused herself from them with the box in her hands. Xavier and Isolde watched where she was going with a curious gaze.

For they knew that Maisie was a shy girl who didn't mingle much, it was a surprise that she knew someone here who wasn't from their school.

However, Isolde's eyebrows soon pulled together into a tight knot on realizing that she went to meet the man of her dreams.

What was she doing trying to steal her spotlight?

Isolde was not very happy that her friend could betray her like this by going to meet that man first, even when she didn't have the chance.

Maisie got to the table and she released the breath she was holding since she got up from the chair.

The man was right in front of her yet she didn't know how to speak to him. He had this very intimidating aura surrounding him that made everyone feel so small; they would even take a second look at themselves before approaching him.

She parted her lips to speak but no word got out from it.

"Feel free to speak. I don't bite" She saw him take a sip from his wine before placing the glass gently on the table.

'Ah! He thinks it is very easy for me' Maisie continued speaking to herself.

His words rang in her ears. He doesn't bite! Okay, even if he doesn't. He harms others badly, doesn't he?

Does he think she wasn't going to think it through before opening her mouth to say anything?

"I-i-t is quite surprising to see you here," She said to herself.

'Not going around breaking more bones' She added inwardly.

The man's lips quirked up, "What's with the surprise? It's necessary to see me here when I'm the host of this event"

He then tilted his head, "Rude of me to not ask you to sit"

He jerked his head at the chair in front of him and Maisie hesitantly dragged her feet towards the chair, pulled it out, and sat like a normal lady would do.

She decided to cut to the chase. "I believe we have met before...?"

"Definitely, Maisie Tuffin" He took her by surprise and she had her lips parted before she eventually closed them because she looked stupid even if the man didn't say it.

Maisie gulped, she nervously nodded her head. "I wanted to thank you again for saving me. Here's a little gift from me"

Leif's golden orbs landed on the cute white box in front of her. He saw her stretch it towards him, but he brought his arms to receive it not, as his arms were folded across his chest.

"Open it"

It sounded like an order to Maisie which she didn't like, but she had no choice but to open it, and a delicious scent of chocolate wafted in the air when the box was loosened.

He stared at the chocolate cake with strawberry toppings. Being a well-mannered guy since he was little, he said, "Chocolates are my favorite. Thanks"

Maisie felt her face burning red right there and then.

Seconds later, she felt something cold hit her face violently and Maisie rushed to stand. It was the cake that was slammed right to her face and no one did it other than peony.

She was with her group of friends earlier, as they chatted while drinking wine. "You're so lucky to have Leif. Look how smoking hot he is" One of her friends commented with a dreamy look on her face, likewise every other woman who was surrounding her.

"If I were you Peony, I'd never let him go, nor would I cheat on him. Only him is sufficient for me" Another one said.

Peony chuckled at her friends' words. She smiled, knowing that they were far from reaching him. And she was held in high regard because of her status as Leif's legit girlfriend.

That was true, If Leif wasn't such a cold-hearted someone, Peony would have considered leaving William for him, because the latter had everything, looks, wealth, body... name it all, there was nothing else she could ask for. But Peony wasn't the type of woman to deal with unrecruited love, she had kept strictly to her motive of being a gold-digger when it came to him and nothing else!

As they continued, one of them saw a scrawny little rat in a pink dress hovering across the man of their dreams and the wine immediately tasted horrible in her mouth, "Who's that one? A wretched slut that wants to steal him from you!?" She shrieked.

Peony frowned at the girl who was with Leif, she definitely should be in high school, and wait? she was already aiming that high!? How ridiculous!

It was insulting!

"She hands him something... look" Peony heard her friends say. They kept their gaze locked on Leif and the nobody and they started mumbling harsh words, telling Peony to get the girl's butt out of there.

Peony knew she had to listen, better yet, do something to the girl to let other women know that such outrageous behavior would not be condoned next time.

She hurriedly stood up from her seat and rushed to where Leif was.

From behind, she could already see that it was a chocolate cake.

It looked so appetizing, she clenched her jaw, that this bitch had to gift her boyfriend something beautiful as this!

Unable to control her rage, she lifted the cake and slammed it on the girl's face.

Maisie stood up frantically from the chair, feeling embarrassed. Everyone's gaze had shifted to them because of the noise.

Maisie knew that she couldn't get angry here, because normally, she would get mad for being disgraced like this in front of everyone.

She didn't want to fart and ruin the man's party so she ran away from there, feeling everyone's gaze on her.