Chapter 9 Drop the Act
Trevor wouldn’t let it go. His voice carried a mocking edge when he asked, “What’s with the attitude?
“You must be kidding, sit. Someone like me wouldn’t dare to put up an attitude. Still, no matter how lowly I am, I have the right to choose, don’t 17 alive replied. + Besides, I’ve been with so many men, I’m afraid you would find me disgusting!”
Olive’s tone was steady and cool. She kept her eyes on him, but her emotions were buried too deep for Trevor to read.
A shadow passed over Trevor’s face in the dim light, but he didn’t lose his temper. He lifted her chin with a hand, and a faint, playful smile tugged at the comer of
“I don’t mind. After all, it wasn’t me.”
“You’re a generous gorst, sir. There are plenty of pretty women in Reign. As long as you can pay, I’m sure you’ll find someone who satisties you”
Olive smiled as she spoke, but her hands were clenched tightly Hernails dug into her palm, and the pain made her frown just a little
“But I only want you,” Trevor said. Histone was icy, and his gaze was dark
Something in Olive’s expressionfinally shifted. Her face tumed pale, but her gaze cremained calmn
After a brief pause, she suddenly stepped forward. She brushed her lips against his ear, and her expression dripped with seductive cham
“Thank you for the business, sir, so, how much are you offering? If it’s too little, I won’t agree to it.”
Her flippant tone stirred a wave of indescribable anger within Trevor His expression grew icier, and be shoved Olive aside.
olive hit the wall behind her. Before she could react, his cold and furious voice rang out.
“olive, is this how low you’ve sun?”
Olive looked down and smiled faintly, but her eyes were brimming with tears.
Was she lowly?
She was.
If she weren’t, how could she have spent ten years loving a man who didn’t love her back? She even nearly gave up her life for him.
It she weren’t lowly, how else could she have ended up like this?
Her music, her dance–everything she ever dreamed of was gone. If not for Solana, she might have already passed on.
A moment later, Olive pushed herself up against the wall. Her toschead was bleeding, but she still smiled as she looked at the furious man before her.
She said lightly, “You’ve got the wrong person again, sir. My name is Snowdrop, not the Olive you keep talking about.”
Seeing her like that, Trevor couldn’t tell what he was feeling. His face darkened as he slammed a fist into the wall behind her and shouted in rage, “Get lost!” olive froze for a second, then laughed lightly. “Are you not going to send business my way, sir? What a shame. There goes another i
#payout”
With that, the tomed around with a limp, ready to leave. As she passed by Connor, she heard him say softly, “The Olive Swanson I knew used to be so proud and
Londident.”
Olive paused, then gave him a faint, bitter smile,
“oh? Is that so? Then the Ms. Swanson you’re talking about must have been quite the dazzling beauty. Unfortunately, I’m not her. I’m just a worthless singer in a nightclub,”
How can anyone rise again after being trampled into pieces?
Tthe end, she said nothing. She tumed and fled as fast as she could.
Behind her, Trevor watched her back with a cold, shadowed gaze. His expression was frosty.
