a Story of reincarnation and how our humble but elegant mc rise from nothing to something from something to everything, i dont know what to write so this is the synopsis for the beginning and i will try to publish every day one chapter. Mark my word i will try. to criticism yes I want to be criticized so I can learn and better my novel I still have some idea and books in stock but this will be my main project for now. I hope we all will get along.

After a one-night stand, they're reunited at work -- and find themselves through a complicated mess.

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[VOLUME ONE: COMPLETED] 

GENERAL AUDIENCE: ito ang novel na walang drama sa buhay. Pero may Warning! Sasakit ang tiyan at lalawlaw ang panga sa pagtawa. 

A love started in an office environment. 

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VOL 1: SI PECHAY AT SI BOSS


"Sir, My boyfriend is a douchebag. I broke up with him because he cannot break up with his girlfriend." sabi ni Karissa sa isang gwapong estranghero. 


"I feel lonely. Would you mind to be my boyfriend tonight?" sabi niya dito. 


Nagising siya kinabukasan sa piling ng isang macho at poging lalaki. 


"Ah!!!! Who are you?" tanong niya. 


Iritableng tumayo ito, nagbihis at lumabas ng kwarto. 


Hindi akalain ni Karissa na makikita muli ang lalaki bilang BOSS niya sa opisina.

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A small Help for a colleague: 
Her story is a classic story romance improveed, although I'm not a fan of the genre but I really like her writing style and perseverance.


Name of the book : La Serpiente
 
This is not the kind of book my readers like, but I hope you can recommend its work to fans of female romance.


Yes, i know you were hoping for a new chapter, but i will publish soon a new chapter 

And please don't read her book if you hate female romance.


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Why indeed? Being transferred to this small office was some sort of a demotion for a top editor like Tohru James. His presence there was some kind of an odd happenstance that Yanee wanted to get to the bottom of.
However, her initial impression of the man won, and Yanee decided it was better to steer clear out of his way as much as possible. She would just do her best at what was asked of her and stay away the rest of the time.
She reckoned she was lucky she'd have a very capable superior, thus she wouldn't be needed much at work. Her previous interview with the man gave her a chance to talk to his assistant at Niji International and learned that Tohru James mostly kept to himself and didn't really need help. In short, being his assistance was a piece of cake. But of course she still needed to work on projects like a normal editor, and there would be times she needed to work with him since she's his assistant.
Or so she thought.
By afternoon, Yanee had already memorized her new boss's schedule. She had also taken the initiative to learn some of his tasks ahead of time as she was told it was her boss who would be showing those to her. She studied them anyway as there was nothing else she was busy with after learning his schedule.
"Here we go…"
She puffed her chest as she gathered her bearings in front of the man's door after lunch. He had told her earlier to look for him after she had her briefing with Chummy, Her friend said that her boss had been waiting for her to return from her vacation since he had a big project he wanted to work on, and so now she's here.
Tap Tap Tap
Yanee knocked nervously against the door, and the man's baritone called out from the inside to beckon her in.
"Sir?" she called out, and the handsome man paused from his work to look at her direction and signaled for her to come and sit on one of the chairs in front of his desk.
There was a huge pile of documents on his table that made Yanee wonder what was going on. After all, there was nothing about them mentioned in her briefing. Since she was his new assistant, she was supposed to know everything he was working on.
Then again, she remembered that this guy wanted her to learn the ropes of the department first before giving her a task. This might be what Chummy had told her earlier so she was not asked to memorize other things aside from his schedule.
"Sit there," he said as he removed the glasses he had on and placed them on the table.
He normally didn't wear spectacles, and Yanee had to admit he looked really good even with the pair of glasses on. It didn't make him appear nerdy. Instead, he looked very much like those handsome intellectuals Yanee was totally a fan of.
Urgh…
Despite saying she didn't dare have a crush on her boss, Yanee still wished he'd stop being this handsome. Even without romantic inclinations, looking at him made her heart race and she had to forcefully remind herself of how much he gave her a hard time the last they talked to calm herself down.
That bad experience and her total dislike about office romance were her salvation against this illegally handsome man. If she wanted to survive, she had to put up an armor – a tough one.
"I have finished memorizing the schedule, sir," she reported.
She didn't bother with other pleasantries such as welcoming him – he wouldn't care any other way. She had tried small pleasant talks with him before when she interviewed him for the magazine feature and was shot down and curtly told to get down to business.
"Un-memorize them then. We have other urgent business to take care of," he said nonchalantly as he put his glasses back on and started going through the documents again.
Huh?
"E-excuse me?" Yanee wanted to make sure she didn't mishear him.
Did the guy just tell her to forget what he asked her to memorize earlier?
"Aside from being late, is being deaf also the norm for you?" the guy countered shocking Yanee.
She sat straight up, her feathers totally ruffled. What did this guy just say?
"Excuse me. I just want clarification as I was told to memorize your schedule just this morning."
"And I said to forget about it just now," he countered, as he put the documents back down again.
He removed his glasses and placed them on top of the paper before giving her a look, and surprisingly, a rare smile. However, Yanee was too annoyed to appreciate the beauty in front of her. Well, she didn't want to acknowledge his handsomeness in the first place. She's not a fan of crushes at work as well. So, from now on...
Potato. You're a friggin' potato, so stop smiling, she mused, unhappy as she looked at her boss.
She wouldn't say that out loud, though. Even if she heard that he was somewhat a nice boss, she wouldn't dare give him a reason to sack her.
"These are possible new projects," Tohru James said, indicating the paper in front of him, and Yanee's annoyance toned down.
She looked at the stack of papers and wondered what those were. As if reading her mind, her boss picked up one set of documents and handed it over. It was a proposal for a series. It was a literary work – children's general fiction proposal and Yanee was impressed with it immediately. Even if she disliked literary works as she preferred magazines, she couldn't deny the appeal of the series and could already imagine its popularity once it came out on paperback.
"This is great," Yanee said with excitement in her eyes.
"Is it?" Tohru countered with one brow raised at her questioningly.
"Definitely! I would love to work on this," Yanee nodded.
She reckoned her boss was showing this to her as he wanted her to handle this project. She totally misunderstood.
"Ms. Lee, what kind of department are we?" he asked in light tones.
"The literary department?" she wondered why he was asking her that.
Tohru nodded. "That's right. So, what books do we have that are earning a lot these days?" he prompted again, and Yanee had to search her mind for the title of the book which was number one in sales.
"The School Patrol," she answered.
The mentioned was also a series dedicated to kids and was the number one bestselling series in this department. Yanee didn't really memorize the books they had ongoing in the department, but since the book was popular, she was able to answer.
"That's right," Tohru agreed, before turning to her again with a questioning gaze. "So please tell me Ms. Lee, why do you have to personally handle a project that already has a very good following?"
The question made Yanee frown. Well, the following didn't matter. A project was a project, right? But of course, this was Tohru James. The guy had a penchant for doing things the hard way. Instead of working on already popular genres, he preferred to work on the least popular one and develop it into gold. It was how he earned his reputation back in Niji International.
Seeing as she seemed to understand that, Tohru James took more of the documents from the table and handed them to her. "Give this to the editors. Let them handle these," he ordered and Yanee clamped her mouth shut as she stood.
Since there weren't any initial problems with the proposals, it seemed they wouldn't be handling projects personally. But her boss called her here so there must be something for her too, right?
She was on the way to the door when she couldn't take it anymore and turned to her boss. "Sir?" she called, and Tohru James looked up at her again.
"What are we going to work on then?" she finally asked as she tried her best to remember which genre sold the least in her company, and she nearly groaned out loud as she realized what it was.
Tohru James grinned. "Do I have to answer that Ms. Lee? You already know the answer, right?"
Yanee of course nodded, the light vanishing from her eyes as she answered. "Romance."
Friggin' awful romance…


An Office Romance Anthology...

Yanee Lee was a budding lifestyle writer. She was always aiming to become the best in her chosen field. Sadly, a brutal take over in the publishing company happened just as she was about to get it big. 

Worse, she found her dream job snatched away from under her nose, and she was transferred to the novel department with an ultimatum handed out by the new cold-hearted Editor-in-Chief: Write an anthology of work-related romance that would sell or get out!

With the help of her friends and family, Yanee would go on an adventure to research about the best stories for her series: The Office Diaries. 

Join Yanee as she interviews many different people, and learn about different tales of love and life. 

Who knew, through this, she would also find her own love story in the form of her irritating boss, the Editor-in-Chief who gave her the ultimatum, Tohru James?


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Hi my name is Amy. I am 19 years old and my  boyfriend's age is 19 and name is Jordan. I love Romance books. They are my favorite ones. I like to  draw and paint. I make comics. One of them are The life at work. I am very funny. 

 One day  at work suddenly every thing changed. My boss got drunk one night and he fired me. Of course I did not agree with him and took him to his office. The next day at work he looked angry.  he said that I was fired if  I did not get to  work  NOW!! I said ok and got to work. at night time i went home and flopped on the couch.

Many of the old books stacks fell to 100 dollars, but there were still no bids.

The old and new books were different; once old books were deemed to have no knowledge value, they would often become worthless paper.

The current price for waste paper was 210 dollars per ton. These stacks of old books were, at most, about 220 pounds. Even selling them as waste paper wouldn’t make much money, and would surely end up as a loss.

The two huge units, containing over 100,000 books, were slowly auctioned off from morning all the way until the late afternoon.

In the mid-afternoon, Li Du, Hans, and Godzilla ate some dumplings. A smart Chinese vendor had brought his cart to sell some fast food. Business was booming for him. The treasure hunters were too lazy to go out for lunch, so they just bought food from him.

With the afternoon auction over, Godzilla loaded the books into the truck. They had bought a total of 4,000 books. It was quite a hassle to load them, with the compartment space stuffed to the brim.

Seeing that there was still some time left in the day, Li Du said, "Let’s go back to Flagstaff."

Hans wanted to stay. "We’ve worked all day, especially Godzilla. After moving all those books, he’s definitely tired out. Let’s just stay in Phoenix and have some fun for the night."

Li Du shrugged and agreed. He knew that to Hans, a big city like Phoenix was much more attractive than a small town like Flagstaff.

They drove to a motel, and Li Du’s phone rang. He picked up the call and heard Sophie’s voice. "Hi, Li, where are you at?"

"In Phoenix. How about you? Are you off from work?"

Sophie said, "Yup. I went off work quite early today, and wanted to invite you to dinner to thank you for the help lately. You’ve done so much for me. But since you’re in Phoenix, next time then…"

Li Du immediately changed his tune."It’s like this, Sophie: We’re actually on the way back to Flagstaff from Phoenix. We’ll be back by dinner time." 

He gestured while he said that, and Godzilla quickly turned the steering wheel and drove the truck onto the highway.

Hans sat helplessly in the shotgun seat, his exciting night for today gone.

Sophie said joyfully, "That’s great, what would you like to eat?"

Li Du replied happily as well, "I’m fine with anything."

Hearing that answer, the female doctor was troubled. "Anything? Then I don’t know what to choose, because I don’t know your palette."

Li Du was about to answer, when Hans waved to him and mouthed: "Pause!"

Although he didn’t know what that guy was trying to pull, Li Du still had some trust in Hans, so he told the female doctor that he’d call back later and hung up.

"What’s wrong?"

"Sophie’s asking you out for dinner?" Hans replied with another question.

"Yeah, what’s wrong?" Li Du asked without thinking, and then froze for a moment. "D*mmit, you were eavesdropping on us?"

Hans rolled his eyes. "My ears are good; you can’t fault me for that. Listen, me eavesdropping isn’t important. If you want to ‘improve’ your relationship with her, then the next step is important."

Li Du mumbled, "Why would I want to ‘improve’ our relationship?"

Hans waved and said, "Alright, alright, then just pretend I didn’t say anything…"

"Stop, stop, stop. Big Fox, continue, continue." Li Du gave a fake smile as he spoke. He did have some affection for the female doctor, and indeed hoped that he could have a more established relationship with her.

Hans rolled his eyes again. "Next time, in front of me, don’t act like you’re some saint, okay? When it comes to issues about women, don’t expect to be able to hide anything from me, okay?"

"Ok-ok-ok!" Li Du nodded like a woodpecker.

"I know Sophie—her whole family are devoted Christians. Since youth, she didn’t spend time with boys. I bet that the first guy she’s ever asked out to dinner is you."

Li Du smiled gleefully.

"So that means—in her heart—you’re not just an ordinary man, and unordinary men do not do typical things. Moreover, they do not have typical dates."

Li Du said, "Right, right, so what should I do?"

"What should you do? Show off the best side of you! It’s like how a lion displays his strength when seeking a mate. When I’m seeing my mate, I’ll display my eight-inch cannon…"

"F*ck you! Can you be serious!" It was Li Du’s turn to roll his eyes.

Hans said, "I am being serious. What’s the best side of you that you can show?"

Li Du thought for a bit, and said, "My kind side, my brave side, my responsible side…"

"F*ck you! Can you be serious!" Hans threw his exact words back at him.

Mr. Li felt wronged. Those were his serious answers.

Hans said, "It’s cooking! Your cooking skills are outstanding. This is a rare trait among men!"

"And then?"

"And then are you an idiot? Grab this chance to show off your cooking skills! There’s no need for restaurants. Just bring the ingredients, go straight to Sophie’s home, and enjoy the homely atmosphere. It’ll definitely bring your relationship up a level!" Hans said confidently.

"Wouldn’t that be too forceful?" Li Du asked hesitantly.

Hans said, "If you don’t want to, why not just learn from Helene Hanff and Frank Doel, and communicate with letters for 20 years before meeting?"

"What?"

Hans was stunned. "You don’t know? The New York writer, Helene Hanff, and the antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co, Frank Doel. Their story, a famous romance novel, ‘84 Charing Cross Road?’"

Li Du rubbed his nose and said, "I’m not that interested in romance novels."

"You have a d*mn master’s." Hans turned scornful.

Godzilla, who was driving, wore a despondent expression. "The topic changed real quickly."

They got back on track, and Hans began imparting upon Li Du his tricks for dating.

Two hours later, the sky was turning dark. Lights from many households began switching on, and Sophie heard someone knocking at her door.

"Hello, I’m here." 

Sophie bounced up and ran to the door. She opened it and saw a bouquet of snow-white tulips in front of her, with Li Du right behind them. 

Sophie was surprised. She looked at the fresh flowers, and then pointed to her cheeks and asked, "For me?"

Li Du shook his head. "No, don’t misunderstand, these are for the piano in your house. White tulips match pianos."

Sophie generously accepted the fresh flowers, and then used the tulips to cover her mouth. She giggled, "This must be some idea from Hans, that rascal!"

Mr. Li smiled, but it wasn’t out of awkwardness. The female doctor had hit the mark. It was indeed Hans’s idea—including that sentence.

Seeing that his expression changed, Sophie smiled even more joyfully. She ran back inside and placed the flowers into a vase, and focused on displaying them on top of the piano.

Then, she turned back and said with a slight smile, "My piano says, ‘thank you,’ and she will allow her owner to invite you out to dinner."

Li Du brought a cardboard box in. "Um, can we not go out for dinner? How about I make our meals instead? I’m good at cooking up Chinese dishes. I also know some Thai, Japanese, and Korean dishes.

Sophie widened her eyes. "That won’t do. It should be a treat from me to thank you for all of the help."

Li Du said, "You might not know that I love to cook. I especially like watching people eat the food I’ve made, so if you allow me that opportunity, it would be the best way of saying thanks to me."

Sophie stared at him suspiciously and asked, "Is that what Hans taught you to do as well?"

"No! I’m not Big Fox’s child!" Li Du didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. "I’m telling the truth!"

"I’ll gladly accept it then," Sophie said.

"Sure!" Mr. Li said cheerfully.
 
 
 



They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

As a result of being home-schooled, Archie held no close knowledge of what the outer world was like. What her father said was the final word. And that was the only way it seemed to be forever. Raj hardly conversed with the sisters as he was always busy about his business, arranging meetings and looking through important documents and they never intended on interfering either. For as long as they remember, studying was their only goal, and they did so for themselves, not for Raj. 

The sisters were always closely monitored by Raj as he was afraid of something he never spoke of. This silence scared them but they became eager to know. Anyone who interacted with his daughters were filtered and only the very trustworthy were allowed to do so. As a result of this, romance and love was something they never heard of. If they were to be questioned on the topic, they would be clueless, although that would be the only thing Archie would be uneducated about. 
She had sometimes heard her father discuss about marriage quite a few times but his concept of it was as of a business deal, to create partnership with companies and that was the only motive. 
Archie didn't question this. From her early teenage years, Archie was fond of the law and legal justice, she even mentioned this to her father who reluctantly promoted her as he wanted her to follow in his footsteps along the business world as he felt law was too risky for her, but this assumption stood nowhere near her determination as Archie hardly exposed of her feelings. She always hid herself under a mask of carelessness. It was hard to know what was on her mind.

As a result of reading way too many books, Archie came upon a few based on romance. Not knowing of the topic, one day she walked to her father for more detail only to be faced with his shock and anger, burning all books in their backyard the very next day. This behaviour of his was rather odd to Archie as his rage always remained in his work and never interfered with their family life. Seeing his reaction, she came to the conclusion that whatever this love maybe was to stay far from her as Raj was so deeply infuriated by it. By why? It sounded rather pleasing, although deep in her mind, the very small curiosity was only getting larger and larger, little by little. When will it explode?

The only person to whom she openly spoke with was her sister, Tanvi. They shared happiness, sadness, excitement and the very poor gossip they overheard from their father on the phone. Although sometimes Tanvi left the mansion, and talked about things that she never heard of, Archie never questioned her. It never just occurred as a need. To get to her dream Law school was her goal. And as far as they three were concerned, she was going to do so without a doubt...

If she weren’t brown, her red cheeks would have been evident but her thudding heartbeat couldn’t hide.

20th May, XXXX

After that day, a heavy burden seemed to have been lifted from my heart. 

Weirdly, Sebastian did not break connection with me (although I suspect it may have something to do with his plan).

He started to bring me books. Not encyclopedia this time, but romance novels. Books I usually read. 

"Thank you." I took over the book. Even though I know it's just make-pretend, for some reason I felt happy. Happy that he brings me something every time he comes here. Happy that he finally spends an ounce of his super brain to notice what I truly like. 

"I hope you like this type of books." A flicker of amusement passed through his eyes again. 

Teasing? Was he teasing? 

Maybe because of my confused look, for once in my entire two lives, he explained. 

"Whenever I entered the room, you were reading an encyclopedia."

"What? That is not true. Why would I read an encyclopedia?"

"The book with a blue cover and a tear at the right upper corner."

"Oh... that! Wait... that was an encyclopedia?" I really wished I didn't say it out loud. 

"You were reading it every time I entered the room, you mean you didn't notice?" Another spark of amusement appears in his eyes. 

"Well..." 

From that day onward, I feel more relaxed around him. Maybe because he already saw my truest and messiest self. Or maybe I simply got used to him. I found out I actually could read him pretty well even though his face stayed emotionless. And I was never a quiet person among people I know well. 

"Well?"

He was actually in a pretty good mood at that moment (although it's his usual emotionless face). Maybe because he was teasing me.

I had to think of an excuse. I couldn't tell him it's because I was reading romance novels that might be slightly embarrassing if seen by others, especially him. The first time he knocked on my door, I threw the novel behind the cushion, picked up a random book in my room and pretended to read it. I still had no idea why an encyclopedia was in my room. Sebastian isn't one of those who like reading encyclopedia... right? Anyway from then on I always used that blue covered book (which was now revealed to be an encyclopedia) as cover. 

"People will know you're lying with the amount of time you spend to come up with an excuse."

"I'm not coming up with an excuse... I'm not..." I faltered. 

"An ambassador from Edehan is coming, a ball will be held in a month."

"Edehan?"

Sebastian should be angry with Edehan. Our kingdom fell into ashes because of Edehan... Was this ambassador involved in his plan? 

"The wife of that ambassador has some problems with her eyes."

"You mean Lady Astor? You want me to take care of her while you talk to Lord Astor?"

Lord Astor is the second in command of Edehan, but in truth he controls Edehan and its king, King Leonard. He drove the original heir, Prince Lucien, off the throne and supported Prince Lucien's uncle as king. That happened one year ago. Prince Lucien is forbidden from returning to Edehan by Lord Astor's power, that's when disaster occurred. 

Sebastian should hate this Lord Astor. If it wasn't for him... 

"Astor is an interesting man." It's that smile again, that predator like smile. He really hates him then... right?

"You... you want to take revenge?"

"Astor is a better king than that Lucien. Working with him is more beneficial than with that Lucien." He leaned forward, touched my hair gently and whispered,  "Working with smart people is better than with dumb people, remember that, Liana."

He then walked out of the room. What did that last line mean? He doesn't seem to hate Lord Astor as much as I thought. He seems to prefer to work with him over Prince Lucien. 

Am I stupid or smart? If I am dumb, will I be discarded? 

What am I thinking. Our engagement will end soon anyway.

Red thread of fate draws them together...

Volume 1 Diary of a Reborn Queen
Introverted Queen × Ice King 
At twenty, I died as I watched my country burned to ashes. When I opened my eyes, I became 16 again.
The first thing I plan to do is breaking off my engagement with Prince Sebastian. 
"Let's break off our engagement. I don't want to be Queen anymore. You don't like me anyway." 
This is my life as a reborn queen.

The same night Ella entered the parlor again with a small torch in her hand and the screwdriver she had stolen from Roy. It wasn't hard to navigate the way to the Records as she knew them blindly. Thinking about that she wondered why the way to the same place seemed to be too long last night. Maybe he was hoping to trick her from remembering the way. Shaking her head at his constant 'precautions', she paused the moment she came face to face with the room.
Facepalming herself she muttered, "Shit!" forgot of this obvious detail to enter inside. Thinking of a way in, she tried to input her thumb in it, which clearly rejected that. She kicked the door in frustration, while glaring at that device menacingly. Wasn't this run by electricity? But Roy opened the door through the thumb yesterday, which meant it won't disarm itself if the switch is off. Turning back to the reception table she went through the drawers to find anyone's ID lying unconcerned. After a bit of searching she found an ID stacked in the bottom of one of the drawers as though purposely kept out of the sight which belonged to her friend, Daisy. Thanking the Lord and her friend who was unaware of the help she provided, she hurried up the stairs not caring the sound of her shoes tapping them, she entered the room.
Funnily she had prepared for breaking in the wall without breaking through the door! Within no time Ella loosened the screws from both sides of the wall and entered in after jerking it a bit. Any other person viewing her now would tell that she was idiot to push a wall like that, but she entered in to find the place was lit exactly the way they had left yesterday. Taking in the room she looked around to find a pillar in the center which was actually supporting the parlor from this side. Observing the interior, she pondered that the pillar was turned to a wall below, that could be why no one suspected there to be a pillar adjoining both the floors. This place was built by her ancestors, purposely.
Looking around she notices that the room still held the secrets in a maze as the books were displayed in there. Picking one of them she was shocked to read the title; rubbing her eyes she brought the torch to the book to confirm what she was looking.
"They read romance books here?" Ella said to herself in disbelief while reading the title again and again saying 'Pride and Prejudice'. Wanting to clear her doubts she kept that one in its place and picked out the other ones which followed, 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Persuasion', 'Seduction' and many alike which she hadn't heard of but was certain that they wrote romance and clichés, thereby transpiring Ella's thought at these choices.
"Didn't know you read romance." The voice made Ella jump and let go of the book she was inspecting if the contents were the same as the title spoke. Unconsciously her hand reached her heart in sudden surprise to turn to the man who was leaning his back in the middle of the door which balanced the weight in neither opening nor closing around.
After taking deep breaths, she spoke hoarsely, "Don't you other work than behaving like a ghost!"
"Currently you seem to be one." He squinted his eyes around to see a book lying on the floor, she followed his sight and picked it up to return the book to its place.
"What are you doing here like a thief? You wanted in here, you could have just asked."
"So you go through your middle-school uniform every time?" She taunted it as the screwdriver was hidden between the uniform and other stuffs he had kept in a carton box in the low end of his room's closet.
"I don't. I heard that the Mistress hadn't eaten her dinner tonight, in order to check on you I found the pillows to be taking your place." Roy replied while crossing his arms. 
She returned her focus to the books and looked about for any other things, "I wasn't hungry."
"What are you searching Elle?"
"Why should I answer you? You never answer mine!"
"You are behaving like an immature again."
"Ah, immature in playing the game. You want it all to be like guessing and plotting out, but let me clear it Roy," she looked back to him continuing, "I'll play my games when I feel like playing, which isn't now."
"Since you can't answer my questions I have to go look for them on my own," Ella replied while looking through some papers which were rolled and tied along the book, 'The Art of Seduction'.
"It's all a hoax here." Roy started.
"I surmised that much, yes."
The room was silent with soft shuffling sound of Ella while looking through the different papers which had turned yellowish accompanied with constant staring of Roy to her every move.
"There are the records in this parlor which need most maintenance, hence the parlor is closed at 4. These archives are of too value to be left out in the vicinity of outsiders."
"What about the other activities?"
"You mean secret meetings, yes?" She nodded at him.
"If any of this is because of you Roy, I'm going to destroy you," Ella said indicating about the matters the corporation is facing. He took off from his position to get to her, eyes wandering around the papers she held arranging serially through dates. "Where are your belongings?" She was asking about the Faceless and his claim of her father being one of them.
Roy walked over to the books kept aligned as though searching for something to show her up. He walked the whole room, then stopped to look at Ella who was already observing him; he pointed to his forehead grinning, "Here."
Expecting her to be loosing her mind in anger, she was surprisingly calm. Well, two can play the game, he thought. His thoughts were disturbed when Ella turned away from him, engrossing herself in the notes and documents stored, which were some important agreements and treaties.
He waited but broke the silence first, "Won't you ask me or you have got too bored of it?" His voice sounded clear annoyance to which Ella bit her lips from smiling, she turned to face him innocently, "Ask what?"
If she was playing correctly, she would have him under her wraps in no time. The Faceless. Isn't that what you're here for?"
"I don't know. I might just enjoy these romance books and go through these treaties. They seem too interesting to miss. I never knew we had the copy of The Treaty of Paris."
"If you do want to tell me about the Faceless, I'm here. All night." Ella stated and went back to going through the contents of the papers, supporting her back on the pillar.
"You are behaving like you don't care," he said with evident anger thinking that she didn't believe him.
"You are behaving as if you do. Because if you did, you would tell me every goddamn detail of what you know right now."
"Fine! You talk about caring about the corporation, then do it your way," he spoke while pushing his hands in his track pockets. Noticing this action of his Ella looked away from his muscles which clearly showed through his shirt. Does he wear shirts as a nightdress? Shaking her head she concentrated back to the treaty while mentally thinking about scanning the book stand for any clues.
"Hmm. I've decided what to do." She folded the papers properly and looked at him, "I'll marry the prince."
"I must say you are the true queen. Who jeopardizes the kingdom just like your father," his taunt was not too far.
"You have better ideas? Will you marry him? The decision shall be made in a couple of hours now. Either contribute or leave Roy. What is the merit of keeping knowledge if you can't use it!"
"Mark had accepted the request of entering the Faceless by marrying you off."
"You said he was already a part of it."
"I said he was one of them, working for bringing the throne in there. He didn't accomplish when you left, that was why he was killed in betrayal. But I suppose you already figured that out."
Speculating something as a possibility and finally hearing the confirmation had two different prospects. He continued, "I never thought I would say this but I was glad you left. I wish you had trusted me to leave together."



"Let's start then." He took her hand in his, interlinking her fingers and dragged her with him, all the while looking at her face. She noticed that and was looking straight ahead. 
"Look ahead. Or you'll trip." Not a second later, Ella's leg gave away when came across something and was about to fall flat on her face, when Roy clutched her stomach from the back lifting up in the process. Now he had her lifted closer to him, her back touching his chest, her mouth slightly open expecting the fall to be hard, her legs were in the air; he said in her ears, "Like this?"
"Let go of me." She gritted her teeth when she understood he did it purposely. He was always like that. To teach her he would go to extent of putting her in danger only to save her later. 
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Legacies go way back. They are lost to the world now, but not gone completely. 
It wasn't chosen for Ella to be a part of it, but it was her inheritance. Drowning and dragging her along leading to an inescapable choice.
The lives of the top are equally miserable with the lives of the low, which he understood very well. Then won't it be better to play on the top than stay low...
Two different lives belonging to different phases come together in this nasty game of power and pleasure that it's too true to be ignored.
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Life is lived for common goals of having a job, car and home. That is what Ella wanted too, a stable life without much complications, but will her identity and position let her live such common goals?
Specially when the person who was supposed to be her knight was actually hunting her.

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