After years of bitter rivalry, even the smallest conflict could lead to explosive consequences.
Mila
was on the verge of losing it… but there was nothing she could say. “Mila!”
Gerald had been watching from a distance for a
while now. Now that Mila was losing, it was time to join the fray.
“Ah! Gerald!”
Mila leaped in shock when she saw him.
He wasn’t supposed
to catch her like
this with her weakness in full view!
“Whoa,
Mila, who’s this?” Irene looked him up and down. Seeing his plain clothes, a
smile bloomed across her face. All
her own friends were people of note. Mila, on the other hand, was keeping this
kind of company…
And the casual way he called out to
her… Did that mean that something was going
on between them?
“This is my friend,
Gerald. What about
it?” Mila announced
without reservation.
“Oho, and here I was thinking
that this might be your brother-in-law, Irene!”
Kenneth was holding
out
his hand to show off his watch, a golden
Rolex, by way of challenging Gerald to a cockfight. But if he was just a friend, then never mind.
“How
could that be, Kenneth?” Irene cried out in mirth. “How could Mila have
possibly found herself a boyfriend
being the ice queen that she is! Besides, just take a look at this friend of
hers… what is he even wearing? Mila’s
boyfriend, indeed!”
She attacked
Mila viciously, never sparing a thought for Gerald’s feelings.
Evidently, she already
regarded him as less
than nothing.
“Haha…” Faced with these insults, Mila was strangely more pleased than vexed. “How wrong you are,
Irene. Gerald
and I are more than just friends—we’re going steady!”
With that, Mila traipsed
over to Gerald and embraced his arm.
This soft sensation… it set his whole body quivering.
So now, he had become Mila Smith’s boyfriend?
It was something he had always desired, but he
had never imagined his dream coming true thanks to such a turn of events.
It was a complicated tangle of emotions he was experiencing right now. Meanwhile, Irene and Kenneth
were both dumbstruck.
“Heh…
Mila, you’re just saying that to get a rise out of me, right? Even if you’re
out of your mind and wanting to get a
boyfriend so you can keep up with me, perhaps eventually even a husband to give
you the good life, he would still have to be a somebody, am I right? Not something like… him.”
“By
the way, I guess I haven’t properly introduced Kenneth to you yet. He’s the
heir to the Lee family enterprise. Do
you know what car he drives? A Ferrari. By this token alone, Mila, you’ve
already lost to me!”
Irene was red in the
face now.
Well,
now… Mila, you’ve never been willing to admit defeat to me, huh? Show me what
you’ve got, then! We’ll see who gets the last
laugh!
Sure
enough, Mila refused to back down. “Heh! And what does that mean? My boyfriend,
Gerald, is a wealthy heir in his
own right. He just doesn’t parade it around everywhere unlike some people’s boyfriends who can’t stop showing off!”
Mila was gripping both of Gerald’s hands tightly. She was really putting
herself out there right now.
“Ahaha!
What? This Gerald guy is rich? He’s just keeping a low profile?” Irene guffawed
raucously. “You’ve got me there,
Mila, you’ve truly beaten me this time! In this respect, I definitely can’t
hold a candle to you!”
Meanwhile, Gerald’s heart
was steeped in doubt.
A moment ago, he had been amazed at how
serious a childhood rivalry could be. Not even a goddess like Mila could rise above it.
Calling
him her boyfriend… it was only for the sake of this contest with Irene. However, that last thing Mila
said had caught him completely off-guard!
“Mila, did you already know about it?” He
had been agonizing over how to reveal the truth to his
friends, but now that
she had said it herself, he felt a great weight
lifted off his shoulders.
Taken
aback, Mila asked, “Did I already know about what?” “About me being a wealthy
heir!”