Aria rolled her eyes behind his back, his over possessive side was overbearing sometimes.
She couldn’t focus on the conversation of the two men anymore as her eyes fixed on a certain someone. Her heart kick started in nervousness as she broke down in cold sweat.
Her gaze was locked with the cold green ones. The person was wearing an elegant mask with feathers adoring it, but Aria knew exactly who it was. The girl she had seen outside of the shop.
But her pale pink hair was replaced with a dark brown one.
Her black dress ironically glowing and shining in the hall room as she quietly kept her gaze fixed at Aria, occasionally taking a sip from the champagne flute in her hand.
“. . . am I clear?”
Abigor’s sudden voice made her head snap back up at him; he was staring down at her seriously and his face immediately hardened seeing her alarmed state.
“Huh?” she found herself muttering while stumbling on her words.
He quickly turned to look at the direction she was looking at, but he found nothing suspicious. Just people talking among themselves and enjoying the smooth classical music playing in the background.
“What was that?” he inquired stoically turning back to look at her; Aria had quickly covered up her alarmed state with a lazy smile.
She’s good at masking her emotions.
“What was what?” she asked innocently while staring straight at him.
He gritted his teeth “Listen-”
“Abigor we need go meet the investors!” Damond interrupted while pointing towards a small group men and women.
Abigor let out a harsh frustrated sigh while rubbing his temple “We are not done here” he whispered lowly to Aria which made her gulp a little “I’ll be back in a bit, so stay here”
She gave out a careless nod and gulped down a bit of champagne while leaning against the counter. Abigor gave her one last unsure look before looking around one more time and then disappearing in the sea of people with Damond.
Aria kept looking ahead while mindlessly sipping on her drink. A sharp sound of heels and a sudden fragrance of roses invaded her senses, indicating that someone just occupied the space beside her.
“Your acting skills have improved” a low voice from beside her said as Aria sighed out loud.
“Sylvia” she commented while turning to look at the haunting green eyes while her dark brown hair framed her small tanned face “What are you doing here?”
“Sylvia” she commented while turning to look at the haunting green eyes while her dark brown hair framed her small tanned face “What are you doing here?”
“Am I not allowed to join a charity auction?” she replied nonchalantly while staring at the golden liquid in her glass “You know, I’m somewhat of a philanthropist myself”
Aria scoffed and looked towards the direction Abigor went, his back was turned towards her as he talked to a few well suited gentlemen.
“What happened to your pink hair?” she asked lowly while looking away, even if someone saw them right now it would be really hard to guess that they were talking to each other.
“You think you are the only one good at hiding your true form?” she heard the snarky comment as Aria rolled her eyes and fixed her mask and twirled a strand of her hair.
“That was a wig by the way,” Sylvia said when she didn’t got an answer from her.
Aria sighed and looked around before whispering “If you are here, does that mean. .?” she trailed off.
“Yup, he is here too”
That single sentence was enough to make Aria’s knees tremble in pure fear as she broke down in cold sweat “W-Why?” she stuttered and looked around for Kahlil but he was nowhere to be found.
“I don’t know” Sylvia shrugged “He’s been interested in American things nowadays, but I think you were right. I think he suspects you”
“Fucking hell” Aria mumbled and downed a whole glass of champagne at once.
“I came here to keep an eye out you know” Sylvia said further “You should thank me”
Aria gritted her teeth “If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me”
“I don’t think that will be the case” Sylvia replied almost immediately as her gaze followed Aria’s line of sight and fell on a broad back at a distance “A powerful one you got at your side, I doubt he’ll let anything happen to you”
Aria looked down in sadness as her heart became heavy with guilt “I don’t know. .”
Sylvia frowned and glared at Aria by the corner of her eyes “What do you mean?”
“I don’t like using him” Aria mumbled as she bit her lower lip.
“You should be the last one to say that” Sylvia scoffed disinterested by her guilt. But when Aria continued to look down without muttering anything; her eyes widened and a gasp escaped her mouth.
“Don’t tell me you’ve fallen in lo-”
Sylvia quickly cut herself off when she noticed Abigor slowly turning around and walking towards their direction. She avoided his gaze at all costs and engaged in a flirty conversation with the bartender.
“Let’s go” Abigor said as soon as he reached where Aria was standing.