Bound By A Ritual

and she couldn't help but feel uneasy about staying so late in that mansion. Boredom got the best of her, an

like going to school, but instead, it's a cleaning sch

x, or else two hundred thousand dollars will be deducted from your seven

is incredible! In three months, I'll have a total of two point one milli

in her bag and stood up, ready to go home and share the good news with her mother. However, just as she

it difficult to move, even if she wanted to. The man in front of her mumbled the name, Lara, as his red eyes studied her

dened in shock, and that was all it took for her to finally find the strength to rea

o do? Was he trying to

n't know him. As she stopped to catch her breath, she glanced back and breathed a sigh of r

when she saw him standi

et here so fast?" Ava yelled at him, her voi

the man replied, his vo

hesitation and frustration. However, the man before her only smiled, and Ava couldn't he

know someone, right?" he calmly replied

r. "I suppose," she answered, warily eyeing him. "But what do you wan

this man potentially being a serial killer or someone dangerous. In that moment of hesitation, he seized the opportunity to hold her hand

is. You've got the wrong person," Ava tri

remember," he said with a smil

onding to him, Ava found herself co

didn't board now, she would have to make the long trek home

e said reassuringly, tr

gside you," Ava quickly replied, at

suggested, hoping t

still don't feel like..." Her thoughts trailed off as she pull

d, turning around and beginning t

discovery. Ava scoffed at his reaction. To her, knowing his

ance between them. She swiftly stepped onto the bus, making her way to the very end and choosing a seat near t

he claims to love and is now mistaking me for her. Poor gu

ing two handsome men in one day, one with red eyes professing his love, and the other with dark eyes,

ips. It had truly startled her, and the aura he emitted was undeniably unsettling. Ava had conflicting

red Ava, making her hesitant to dwell on such thoughts. "Oh gosh," sh

e brother, Luke, ran into her arms. "Big sis, you're h

a asked, planting a k

o much!" Luke kissed her c

r set the table for them. Putting Luke down, she threw her bag onto the couch b

r there?" Her mother asked

laimed, and everyone che

ting paid seven hundred dollars a

und closing the windows and locking the door, giving Ava a puz

r," Luke said in h

ing her head. Sometimes she found it hard to believe he was j

ng," Ava requested,

t to say..." Tears rolled down her mother's cheeks, a

crying? Imagine when you see the money," Ava said, t

ired if it will make Mother this happy. I just have to

shed out of her small room, not even having time to eat breakfast. She kissed her brother on th

g room, I took off my clothes. Putting on the black short-sleeved blouse, I buttoned it up, but when I put on the skirt, I realiz

such proportions. I mean, I'm not fat, so wh

ail. Then, I adjusted my skirt, and thankfully, it stopped at my t

gs at the meeting hall to see who was late or early. To think that

line, and the master glanced over them. The room was quiet,

and I closed my eyes, prepa

red. Turning around, I

gn. Oh God, he rarely smiled anyway, bu

y from him, I swallowed n

brows, causing me to go silent. "You're wearing heels instead of sneakers. Was

I started, but

read the r

ame become Lar

is isn't a club where you can dress as you wish," he reprimand

ill be punished," he growled. "Do you understand?" I nodded, still looking down. "The meeting

dibly uncomfortable. "Go to Lady Martha and h

I had never been so ashamed in my life. I was sure the other girls

yself, and with that, I walked towards Lady

is inde

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