"Hi Ma'am, I'm so sorry," I apologised.

Her scornful look only deepened and she shook her head.

"Weren't my words enough to keep you away? Or has your gold-digging plans made you choose to get into something you wouldn't be able to get away from?"

Her dislike for me was very much evident in her eyes as she spoke; it felt as though she couldn't stand me being in front of her.

"Are you dumb? Can't you speak?" She questioned with a scrunched-up expression.

"Eleanora," Lina called out ...