Chapter 242: TOO BRAVE
After having her talk with Felicia, Erika came out of the room and decided to head back into her room but when she heard the engine of a car coming to a halt in front of the house where the bodyguards were, she paused her movements to see if it was Adrian that had returned.
The leg of the tall man whom she wished would just disappear, walked inside the house while the bodyguards bowed at him. As soon as Erika saw Viper, she quickly operated the wheelchair mechanism and tried to escape from him but unfortunately, the man had already sighted her and he only smirked when he saw her try to run away from him.
"Erika!" He called but she played deaf ears to his call and continued to move. Viper didn’t mind but instead of calling her again, he took long strides towards her and quickly caught up with her before she could run further away from him. "I called you but it seems that you didn’t hear me," he said.
Erika simply ignored him and continued to move away from him but instead of stopping to follow her, he continued to follow her some more and it looked like they were both taking a stroll together which irked her.
Abruptly stopping, Erika turned to look at him and questioned, "Why are you following me?"
Even though her tone sounded harsh, Viper simply laughed it off as a smile settled on his lips.
"You seem agitated. Did any of those three women irritate you? If they did then let me know, I will make sure to make them regret it," he promised. Erika’s eyes slightly widened before she narrowed them. ’Why would he teach them a lesson as if we are close? ’ She wondered.
Sighing, Erika was about to continue getting away when she felt herself being pulled and this time, it wasn’t her.
She turned to the viper who was pulling the wheelchair and glared at him as she demanded, "Stop this wheelchair now. I have my own hands so I can do it myself."
Viper ignored her and continued to pull the wheelchair until they got to the swimming pool area. ’Is he going to drown me?’ Erika wondered, wishing she could weigh some more so that he wouldn’t be able to pull the wheelchair anymore.
"I said stop this wheelchair," she demanded again. After noting that Viper had decided to ignore her just like the way she’d ignored him earlier. Suddenly, she felt herself not being pulled anymore which means that Viper has stopped the wheelchair.
As soon as he left the handle of the wheelchair, Erika moved back and was about to head back inside but Viper stopped her.
"We have something important to talk about and you know it."
Immediately those words left his mouth, Erika stopped to stare at him with a shot-up eyebrow. ’What’s he talking about?’ She asked herself.
"Don’t look at me like that, you know exactly what I’m talking about," he read her mind.
Turning to face him properly, Erika spoke out clearly for him to understand, "If you are talking about your offer, then I will just tell you what I told you the day you proposed it, I don’t want to leave with you."
"And why’s that?" He snapped at her. He’d come from his house to this place all in the hope that she would finally agree with his offer but hearing her repeat the same answer, he felt greatly disappointed. "I’m a better choice than Adrian," he spouted out without control. When he realized what he’d just said, he cleared his throat and corrected his sentence. "I know that you don’t like being here and you know that. You so badly want to be with Ethan so it’s better that you follow me and I will take you to Ethan."
"That wasn’t what you offered the last time," Erika corrected him. "You said that you will only bring me to Ethan after you change your mind when I decide to follow you, not that you will take me to Ethan directly," she directed. This man seemed to think that she was so desperate that she wouldn’t tell the difference between his offers from today and the last three days.
Viper sighed as the smile continued to stretch his lips, making him amused at her reply. ’She’s just as smart as Emma,’ he commented.
"Of course, that’s what I said but now I’ve changed my mind. If you follow me, I will bring you back to Ethan. I heard that he went to confront Adrian in prison," he revealed, wanting to pique her curiosity, and was satisfied when she snapped her head towards him and stared at him with eyes filled with curiosity.
"Ethan is completely recovered now?" She asked.
"I don’t know about that. If you want to find out the truth then come with me and I will take you to him," he promised. He stretched out his hand and held it out in front of her and waited for her to hold it.
Erika glared at his hand that was blocking her view and wished she could just bite it off. ’He thinks this is enough to get me to take me away? I can’t trust this man,’ she concluded.
"Mr Viper, just as I’ve said before and earlier, I can’t go with you. I don’t trust you and I’m afraid that you won’t be able to keep your word and not fulfill what you promised," she said, slightly louder this time so that he could hear her properly in case he was probably deaf or something.
Viper wasn’t pleased with her reply but he didn’t persuade her anymore. Instead, he asked, "Don’t you want to know why Adrian is in jail?"
"Because they have proof against him now? They found the gun that I dropped at the gate of that mansion and now they were able to find his fingerprints on it?" She asked with a smile.
Now Viper was the shocked one. He couldn’t believe that Erika was the one who dropped Adrian’s gun and left it for the police officers to find. ’This girl is too brave,’ he complimented with a smile.
