章節 13: Chapter 13 Fiancee

After driving around for two hours, they had yet to leave the city so Kisha decided to find a silent place to rest and eat.

She drove around but found none, Duke then told her to drive straight to the East district where the influential and powerful lived. That place was well protected.

Even if they have to deal with zombies, they will be able to handle the number and not be overwelmed. There was also a sturdy gate and walls protecting the whole district.

So Kisha obliged. "Do you also live there?" She asked.

Duke nodded and answered indifferently. "I own the whole district."

Kisha's lips twitch. "No wonder he seems confident." She thought.

Keith looked at Duke as if he were looking at a new continent, only then did he realize that the rich have different levels of richness that poor people like them would never fathom.

As they pulled over at the front gate of the Lakeside villa, Hawk from the convoy jogged straight onto the gate and did some climbing and jumping like he was doing an intense rock climbing. If it was just a normal human, they would not be able to do what he just did.

In just a few minutes, he opened the gate from the guard house, when Kisha and Eagle drove past the gate, Hawk closed it again and went inside the second car.

Duke told Kisha to go to the central part of the district where his villa is located. She drove around the silent road, noticing the fluttering curtains in some of the villa's windows, she guessed that the survivors of the district were probably hiding in their houses, they might have been waiting to be rescued.

She sneered in her heart. "As if there will be someone to rescue you. Even the government has already disbanded."

She remembered on her third rebirth, she was also like them. She always believed in the government and so, they did their best to persevere.

Zombies would crowd their hallway and they couldn't even fall asleep from the occasional banging of the door and loud growls.

When she closed her eyes, her mind would always subconciously think that their door would be crowded with zombies and eat them. She would see some survivors from time to time but they can't go past the residential area because zombies are everywhere.

But she still believed that the government was taking a little time to reorganize and help other places. Until they died from starvation, they did not hate them and believed that they must be lacking manpower to do the rescue in other places.

Not until she reached her 20th rebirth that she found out from a soldier that the higher-ups in the government used the soldiers as their own guards, securing their own families and wealth to a safe base and reorganized their position and lord over the people who came to them for refuge.

In the guise of protection, they would send the civilians to find supplies, sometimes they didn't even send soldiers and just let the civilians fend for themselves and they would very rarely send some soldiers to go with them while the majority of the forces was guarding the base.

And they even invoke heavy taxes in the base. Everything has tax. Going in the base would require an entry fee, and renting a place costs supplies but it also has additional tax and more.

The higher echelon didn't need to go outside to kill zombies or find supplies. They are well fed and protected inside, even the management was on someone else's shoulders.

"Are you okay?" Duke asked gently.

She nodded and directly parked the car in front of the villa.

They stepped down one by one. Before going inside, she went to the other car and checked on the two, they hadn't transitioned yet and were having a high fever.

"How is it?" Hawk nervously asked.

"We'll see tomorrow. Lead them in to rest."

Eagle and Hawk led Kisha's family inside the villa, Kisha was about to follow but she noticed Duke fiddling with his phone with knitted brows.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"I can't contact Tristan and the others." He said a little frustrated.

The phone signal is still fine, even internet connections are still working, and electricity and water are still working too. It wasn't even 24 hours since the apocalypse started that's why Duke was worried that something unexpected happened to his subordinates.

"Give them time, they might be busy reorganizing the work distribution." She tapped him on the arm as she coaxed him.

He knew that thinking would not help in this situation, so he cleared his mind deeply inhaled some air, and exhaled. He looked straight into her eyes, some hidden emotions surging through it but he hid it as soon as he felt it.

"Duke!"

A woman's surprise voice resounded behind them. "I knew you'd be safe!" Her gentle voice sounded sweet and refreshing.

Duke and Kisha slowly turned around, Kisha saw a very elegant and noble woman of her age standing a few steps away from them. She looked behind the woman and saw a few people of different ages standing on the front poarch of the villa opposite.

Duke did not answer and only looked on indifferently. A cold aura started emitting from his body.

But the woman seemed unaffected and walked straight to greet Kisha. "Hi! I'm Melody. Melody Evans, Duke's fiancee!" She extended her hands with a sweet harmless smile.

Kisha gave Duke a side glance and answered with a voice as cold as Duke. "Kisha Aldens." But she did not extend her hands. Her expression is almost identical to Duke's.

They looked like two peas in a pod.

Melody smiled unaffectedly at them, she got closer to Duke and reached out to hold onto his arm but he looked sharply at her as a warning.

But she wanted to show her sovereignty over Duke so Kisha would back off. Her woman intuition tells her not to let Kisha get close to her man.

"I never agreed to any engagement. Miss Evans, please show some self-respect and don't touch just any man." Duke reiterated without minding if she lost some face.

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章節 14: Chapter 14 The Promised Engagement

"How could that be? Our marriage is decided by our family. It is our responsibility as aristocrats." Melody answered with confidence. She looked at Duke full of adoration and hidden possessiveness.

Duke sneered. "Do you think my family needs marriage alliance for power or wealth?"

She puffed up he chest and stood up tall. "Isn't it only normal for people of our standing to do so? To choose benefit? Feelings can be slowly nurtured between husband and wife."

For Melody, she is the only lady fit to be Mrs. Winters. She was raised as the Evans's heiress, one of the eight major aristocratic families.

Even though the Evans family might not be as wealthy or as socially accomplished as the Winters, they still ranked second and have hundreds of years of history, wealth, and connections just like the Winters. They were well rooted in City A.

Even before she was born, her mother and Duke's mother had already arranged for their children to marry in their adulthood. It's just that Duke has never cared about their mother's deep friendship and promises. He did not argue with his mother but he treated her coldly, their mother and son bond was affected by this engagement but she couldn't take back what she promised and hurt her gentle and kind best friend whom she grew up with.

"I'm sorry to burst your bubble but the apocalypse has dawned upon us and you have to wake up from your fairytale-like fantasy." Kisha interjected. She looked at Melody as if she were looking at a mentally challenged person.

Melody was taken aback by Kisha's disrespectful words. "Miss Aldens, please watch your words." She still tried to show Duke how magnanimous and kind-hearted she was by not flaring up on Kisha.

Kisha bowed slightly, like a lady from a good family, her temperament was like a rose, enchanting and soul-stirring. "Pardon my straightforwardness, my lady, my words were the truth my heart felt." She then looks Melody straight in the eye, her lips raised, her voice laced with taunting and her eyes speaking words of mockery.

Melody was momentarily dazed, the way Kisha looked felt familiar but before she delved into this familiarity she realized that Kisha was mocking her for having princess syndrome in front of Duke. Anger surges in her heart, her nails digging into her palm but a smile remains on her lips.

"Miss Aldens, who are you to step in to speak when this is about our family matters?" She glared daggers at Kisha. Her annoyance can't be hidden anymore.

"She is my business partner." Duke pulled Kisha by the shoulder to stand right next to him, which looked intimate yet sincere and full of trust. He continued. "I allowed her to speak, besides, she just spoke what I thought but failed to deliver."

"I am only being cordial to you Miss Evans for my mother's friendship with yours but if you continue to harass me. I'm afraid that this last bit of respect I have for their friendship might disappear."

Her eyes reddened, and she appeared pitiful which invoked a man's desire to protect her. She thought that Duke was treating her this way because of Kisha, the vixen must have seduced her man for him to not even respect the two families' agreement.

"What's going on?" A young man asked with a powerful tone of voice.

Everyone's eyes followed the voice to the entrance of the villa. A young man around Duke's age emerges from behind the people who were standing on the porch earlier.

He has an upright, steady, and calm temperament, he looks gentle but still carries authority with every move or word he says, quite opposite to Duke's cold and indifferent temperament.

Hearing her elder brother's voice, Melody's eyes lit up. As if seeing her savior. "Elder Brother!" She then started to shed tears and looked pitiful.

Eric's heart tightened seeing his sister being bullied by Duke, so he walked in big stride and stood in front of Duke shielding his little sister behind him. He stared at Duke as if he were looking at an enemy. He did not even notice Kisha because of his rising anger and dissatisfaction towards Duke.

He always felt that Duke was arrogant and had little regard for them, he even sometimes felt like Duke looked down on them and treated his sister like trash even when his sister was gentle and kind, she didn't even get angry at Duke for being treated unjustly.

"Duke, why do you always bully my sister?" Even though he is angry, his good upbringing is still visible in the way he talks, he is not unreasonable but he is not easily bullied.

Duke did not answer and only raised his brows.

Not wanting to stand and talk with them anymore. Kisha said. "Duke, let's just go inside. This will just take forever if we continue to argue with them." Her cold voice carried a hint of displeasure.

She is annoyed for some reason and thinks that she is worn out.

"Why did this man start to demand an answer when it was his sister who continued to yap and would not let them go." She murmured and was annoyed to look at the siblings.

Only then did Eric realize that there was another person next to Duke. He was taken aback by Duke's closeness towards the woman and at the same time, familiarity hits him. Feeling like he knew her.

"Miss, have we met before?"

Bemused by the greasy pick-up line. Duke's brows knitted, it was so close together that it was enough to squeeze a fly.

"I'm afraid that you have mistaken me for someone else, sir." She put down Duke's arm that was wantonly placed on her shoulder.

He felt vexed by her distant attitude. He did know why, but he didn't think it was a love-at-first-sight thing. But before he could sort out his feelings, Kisha already pulled Duke inside the Villa and Melody tugged at his shirt her eyes full of unwillingness.

She did not want to let Duke go and wanted to pull Kisha by the hair. Why was she allowed inside while she was barred outside?

Despite her reluctance, she could only accept defeat and wait for them patiently. She was resolute because she's been waiting for Duke since she was young. The very first time she met Duke, she knew that she wanted to be his wife and she would not allow any unknow woman to steal her possessions.