The Manipulated Villainess

"Why did you stand there? Aren't you going to sit?" Nicole asked Leon whose legs were glued to the floor the moment they entered the room.

In fact, she was not feeling that great herself. She still remembered how Aston always asked her whether she loved her fiance. To have both the two men at one place? It will be the last thing she wished to happen!

"Okay." Leon snapped out from his thoughts and so was the actor. He walked to the left where two couches and a table was placed for the visitors. He calmly sat as if he doesn't care much. However, he repeatedly stole a glanced at the two.

"Here. I hope you won't be so needy at other times." Nicole handed a pack of rice cakes to Aston with a seemingly annoyed face.

Aston's face brightened up at the food she bought for him upon his request. Didn't she say that she was not his errand girl? She always said one thing and meant the other! "Thanks." He nodded with a smile. Just like the fiance, his eyes trailed to Leon from time to time.

Nicole doesn't know what to do. Should she sit next to the bed or at the couch where her fiance was sitting? She stood still next to the small drawer while debating inside.

She glanced at Aston who was calmly sitting on the bed. He was always talkative but why was he so quiet today?! The silence that was going on in the hospital room almost killed her!

Then she made up her mind. She looked at Leon who was quietly sitting on the couch with his phone on his hands. "Leon. You know him, right? You even said it's unbelievable that I don't know him. We recently signed a contract but he was admitted last night." She informed her fiance, trying her best to act normal.

Leon first turned his head to her and then to the actor. He rose from his seat and approached Aston's bed. He then extended his right hand to Aston. "I'm Leon Jung, Nicole's fiance." He introduced himself with a nonchalant face.

Glancing at the hand of the fiance, Aston's need to lift his head to look at him as he was sitting while the latter was standing. After what seemed to be forever, he finally accepted the handshake. "I'm Aston Kang."

Releasing his hands, Leon's nonchalant face was suddenly replaced by a pleasant one. "I hope you understand Nicole's behaviour. That's just her way of talking. She doesn't really mean it." He gave Nicole a side glance for a very brief second.

"I know. I'm used to it." Aston simply replied with a small smile.

Nicole truly hated the atmosphere! Why did Leon talk as if he knows her well? Did this celebrity really need to respond like that? Unbeknownst to her, the air between the two men was getting thicker and thicker as each second passes!

"What happened to you? You were fine just..." Leon instantly paused his words. He almost revealed himself that he was taking a peek of them last night at the store!

When he noticed that Nicole and the actor were dumbfoundedly staring at him, he corrected himself. "You were fine just days ago." He could hardly control his facial expressions so that they wouldn't doubt him.

"It's an accident," Nicole replied before Aston could. "Besides, this is a secret. The press and the people don't know about this."

Leon raised a brow. Judging from the wounds on the actor's body, he was convinced that it was not an accident but it's not the thing that surprised him. If the press and the people were not aware of this, how did his fiancee knows?

"Your fiancee is a kind business partner. She even admitted me in this room." Aston said to Leon but the whole time, his gaze was fixed on Nicole.

'What's the need to say that?' Nicole really wished to snap Aston but not now, not in the presence of her fiance! She can't help but huffed as she was overwhelmed with annoyance. She turned her head away from Aston with displeased written all over her face.

"Is that so?" Leon forced a smile. He didn't fail to notice Nicole's action. "It feels great to know that I'm not the only one who noticed her kindness. It's her most beautiful charm." He commented with a calm face.

In fact, the potter was not feeling okay. He already knows how Nicole was very comfortable with this man whom she only met days ago! He could see how much she controlled herself not to retorted.

Bickerings, small quarrels and teasing; they were the proof of a comfortable and close relationship. Yet it was the exact things which he never got to experience with this woman.

While this man who never existed in their life until a few days ago, had the pleasure to experience such things! That defines the bond between them.

He was aware that his words surprised Nicole. Most beautiful charm. It was the thing he never said to her yet the words were with him throughout the past two years. Her kind nature was her charm.

If it's not for the step-mother... Leon didn't even want to think further. He will only end up feeling useless again if he did that.

Aston's could feel the strong feelings of Leon for Nicole. Yet when he stared at the woman, she seemed to have no idea about it! Was she dumb or what?

Nevertheless, he somehow finds it understandable. It's never easy to know the feelings someone had for you. Especially in case of the Prime Minister's only son, who used to make many efforts to keep his feelings a secret.

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Garcia Han was fumed with anger when Alex Jo informed her that Nicole had plans with Leon. Sitting on a chair in her office, she tightly clenched her fist.

"That potter has become brazen day by day! First, he postponed the marriage that I planned and now, he even dare to get in my way!" She ranted. Leon words 'A loving mother won't get in the way of her daughter's date' really get on her nerves.

It's a humiliation. She was convinced. Looking at Alex who was standing before her, she asked, "What about Nicole?"

"The Chairwoman didn't say anything," Alex replied. He cannot let the Minister know everything that happened at Nicole's office. If everything was revealed, then he will be doomed.

"That's good enough. What about the acquaintance in the hospital?" Garcia Han inquired.

Recalling about how he failed to do that, Alex could felt his muscles tightened. Nervously biting his lips, he responded, "I didn't have the chance to ask that because of the fiance. Please forgive me." He slightly lowered his head.

Working for this woman for three whole years, he knows her too well. Her unpredictable nature, her face that turned unreadable whenever needed, her gruesome and merciless methods; she was the most fearsome person he had ever known.

Just like she controlled Nicole's life, many people were also at her disposal.

He was no exception. His life was already in her hands the moment he started working for her. And he was well aware of that. Nicole was right. He was just Garcia Han's dog.

Much to Alex's surprise, Garcia Han was very calm. In the past, she never tolerated any mistakes but she sat there with an unreadable face. It made him more nervous than before.

Based on his past experience, Alex Jo knew right away that the Minister of Justice was currently planning something evil again.....