“What incident?” Angelica asked with a curious look on her face.
Rudy shook his head and said, “It’s not a good one.”
Angelica didn’t pry much since Rudy denied her once.
‘She is being awfully docile today…’ Rudy thought. And he was right.
Angelica used to think she was Rudy’s best girl, but ever since she got to know that Rudy’s relationship with Alice had progressed, she started feeling uneasy.
She thought Rudy wouldn’t pay attention to her as he did before since Rudy and Angelica spent most of the time having sex or lewd conversations.
They both were the leaves of the same branch.
Angelica thought if Rudy got more girls, he would have a real girl to have sex with, and he would slowly cast her aside. So she wanted to be on the good side of Rudy and earn brownie points from him.
However, Angelica was mistaken. She was still Rudy’s number one, and she would stay number until he met his girlfriend—which Angelica was already aware of. She had accepted the reality, and she would never be able to win against the love of his previous life— Elise.
But that’s not the reason why Rudy didn’t want to tell the incident related to Anthony to Angelica.
Rudy had noticed that Angelica behaved strangely whenever something evil or tragic happened around her, even the mentions—such as on the news feed or when the landlord mentioned his disgusting story.
Since it was already proven that the reason why Angelica had become a pervert was that Rudy made her like that. So Rudy feared that if she was surrounded by evil and tragic talks, she might become one too.
In his past life. When Rudy was in the first semester of his second year of university, an incident happened with Anthony.
He was charged with r*pe of three high school girls.
He claimed that he was innocent, and no legit proof was given by any of the girls. The only proof was CCTV footage which could be easily tweaked and altered.
The court still sentenced Anthony to 40 years in prison. However, Rudy believed that he was innocent since he knew that Anthony could never do something so hideous to anyone.
All of Anthony’s property, including his wealth, the school, fortunes, and NGOs, were sealed by the government.
Later, the school was demolished, and a shopping mall was created, while the NGOs were sold to private companies. As for his wealth, it was kept a secret.
Since Anthony’s wealth was also taken from him, there was no one to pay for Rudy’s university fees— which led Joe to work overtime every night and Rebecca to do multiple jobs.
Rudy also worked three part-time jobs and still made time to study. But his hardships eventually paid out.
Even if he didn’t get a chance to do it right, he got another chance. His past life hardships, knowledge, experience, and memories were useful to him in his second chance.
“What are you staring at me for?” Angelica asked with a mischievous grin on her face. “Your see-through ability doesn’t work on me.”
“You know, though… I am now afraid to even glare at someone…” Rudy muttered.
“Why so?”
“Last night… when I glared at that landlord with anger and rage… a laser beam came out of my eyes…” Rudy uttered in a disdainful tone. “Who knows, it might activate again even with a soft glare— considering all my abilities improve over time and get more sensitive and easy to activate?”
“True…”
“I am also afraid of looking into someone’s eyes while talking. What if my hypnosis power also activates, and I randomly tell them to do something, and they do it?” Rudy wondered.
Angelica slapped Rudy’s cheeks lightly and looked him into the eyes before saying, “If you worry too much, nothing is going to change. You said something similar to Maria, right?”
“Yeah…”
“But you know, you should be more curious about what the landlord said,” Angelica uttered with a knowing look on her face.
“Are you referring to fairies?”
Angelica nodded and wondered, “You used hypnosis on him, so he wasn’t lying about anything. And we saw his superpowers in front of our eyes too.”
“To be honest, I am still skeptical about them. Fairies and such are myths that only exist in fantasy. But I guess if the ghosts are real, why not them too.”
Rudy was going to mention the shadow demon who had trapped Angelica in the tunnel for eight years, but Rudy was aware that Angelica was traumatized by it, so he didn’t mention him.
A few hours passed, and the break time started. Fortunately, the person who was supposed to be on the lifeguard duty had returned, so Rudy changed back to his clothes and went to Reina’s office, only to see a man yelling at Reina.
That man was none other than Scott, Reina’s ex-boyfriend from high school— who has constantly been trying to get Reina to sleep with him.
“You have no other choice!” he yelled.
Reina noticed Rudy was standing at the doorway, so she averted her gaze and said, “I will pay back the debts with interest.”
‘Hmm? I never knew the debt was connected to Scott. What’s going on?’ Rudy wondered as he walked into Reina’s office.
He tapped on Scott’s shoulder from the back to let him know that he was there. Scott turned around with an annoying look on his face and yelled, “Can’t you see I am busy with—”
He stared at Rudy and squinted his eyes, muttering, “Where have I seen you before….?”
After pondering for a while, Scott finally remembered Rudy and said, “You are that… guy!”
Rudy shook his head and uttered with a straight face: “I am not that guy, pal.”
Scott turned to Reina with a furious look on his face and asked, “What is he doing here?!”
“I have no obligation to answer you,” Reina responded in a little annoyed tone.
“Let me ask you…” Rudy furrowed his brows at Scott and asked, “What are ‘you’ doing here?”
Scott threw some documents at Rudy and said, “Her family took a huge loan to build this place, the interest built up over the time, then their medical fees. And according to the contract, if the debt is not paid in the next three months, this place’s ownership will be transferred to us.”
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Author’s Note- Prey is trying to play with the predator.
Thanks, @DaoistVtSn8O, for the gift!
