Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 9 - I don't hate you - Novel Cool

Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 9 - I don't hate you

Everyone turned to look at the person who spoke. It was a soft and sweet angelic voice.

'Eva… why am I not surprised.' Lena thought to herself.

Eva walked over with soft footsteps. Following her was two new bodyguards that Andy assigned to her. She told him that she did not need them, but for Andy, she kept them by her sides.

'Andy never gave me bodyguards.' Lena pondered.

"You should not bully Lena." Eva spoke again, her sweet voice was calming the situation down.

The three girls were not scared of Eva but only the two hard-looking men behind her. They all knew that Eva was just a woman with no background. Even though Andy favored her, she was not very much likable.

"Count yourself lucky Miss. Shen." They all turned and left.

"Are you alright?" Eva asked Lena.

Lena threw the shirt over the rack and left the store too. Her mood to shop was now sour by this angelic figure. Gary quickly grabbed the shopping bags and followed Lena out. These girls ruined his chance to have an outfit picked by Lena. He will make sure to remember them.

"Lena, wait." Eva shouted, running after them. "Please, wait a moment!"

Lena stopped and turn to look at the small girl. "Miss. Wu, I don't remember us being close enough for you to call me by my name."

"I… uh.. Miss. Shen, can we speak?"

"Are we not speaking now?" Lena rolled her eyes.

"Uh.. I mean somewhere else."

"Look.." Lena walked towards Eva. The two bodyguards stepped up to block her path.

"Chillax men. Didn't you hear your lady? She just wants to talk. Women too can have civilized conversations."

Lena sized up the men. "And I wouldn't be stupid enough to go against you two. Does it look like he can too?"

Lena pointed at Gary in which the two big guys looked at him. They saw him as no harm.

Gary, at that moment, felt like his man pride being crushed. He may not look buff or strong, but he was still tall and handsome.

The two men opened the path for Lena. They made sure to be extra alert if this woman pulled a move on their lady.

"Are you expecting me to be thankful?" Lena continued the conversation.

Eva just nodded her head.

"I don't need your pity, you know. These type of problems won't scratch a person like me."

Lena stepped a bit close to Eva, again.. airing her assertive aura over the small kitten.

"However, you should look out for yourself more, don't you think?"

Eva was confused by what Lena was trying to tell her. She does not need to look out for herself, isn't that her bodyguards' duty?

"The high society isn't a place for someone like you." Lena clarified.

"Why do you hate me so much? I had never done anything wrong to you."

"I don't hate you."

Eva didn't believe that. Ever since she met Lena, Lena had not once been nice to her. Lena had played around with Eva's feelings many times.

"Well… I did hate you. But now, I just pity you." Lena corrected herself.

"Pity?"

"Look around you and then look at yourself. Just because you are wearing fancy clothes, have men protecting you 24/7… it doesn't mean you are one of us. You can be born with money, made with money, but you just can't climb up after 1 day and say you belong here.

The poor looks at us and complain that we are spoiled rich children that live off the money of our parents, but we go through as much as anyone else. We grow up to be the future leaders of the world. Since we are born, we were groomed for war. Up here… our war is different than where you are used to.

You are not prepared for the war ahead of you. So let me be the first to warn you, step up your game, or you will be stepped on." With that, Lena left leaving a distraught Eva holding her position but she looks like she can fall at any second.

Lena was correct. Eva may have chased love and met her prince charming, but the picture was not that easy.

Andy's parents have not accepted her as their future daughter-in-law. She was looked like a gold digger and the person who ruined their chance to have Lena as their daughter-in-law.

When she goes out with Andy, it's all of Andy's friends and relatives. She knows no one and always kept a smile as she belonged with them. She nodded and laugh with them, but most of the time, she could not relate to their topics of humor.

She has been taking lots of classes to be perfect for Andy. She was trying so hard.

But deep down… she knows how misfitted she was. But in the end… she still has Andy, doesn't she? And they say love conquers it all.

That's right, as long as they both love each other, there is nothing that they both can't do.

'I will show you, Lena… that I am better than you.'

Chapter end

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