My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I was no longer interested in this conversation, so I angled my body to walk around her.

Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed my arm. Thoroughly annoyed, I frowned at her. "What else do you want to say, Miss Zanes?"

She smiled insidiously. "I have plenty to say. Since you are so calm about everything, then you might be calm about death too, am I right?"

With that, she changed her grip, intending to push me into the pool.

I didn't know how to swim. I twisted away and forcefully pinched her arm to let me go.

She jerked back in pain, and the momentum drove her away from me, towards the pool. So because of inertia, what was supposed to be me falling into the pool, turned into her falling instead. She fell in with a loud splash, an oddly pleasurable sound.

A beautiful woman falling into the water garnered a certain amount of attention. Not that the woman in question enjoyed the attention.

stand, as the water was not deep. When her feet touched the floor, she realised that the man was holding onto her chest. Mortified, she screamed, "Get out of my

being yelled at. He went from trying to

in the water, the people surrounding her watched on in amusement. No one made a move to help her get

I opened my mouth to speak, to stop the man from acting too rashly when I heard

full of authority, coming from a powerful man used to being obeyed.

into the water

had been thin and slightly transparent. After a thorough soaking, her wet

lost some of her dignity and respect in front of Hendrix Roberts,

shoulders He said, "Go back to your room and change your

I did not like the gleam in her eyes. She yelled, "Arianna, are you satisfied? Are you

you who said that Mr. Roberts was just another man to use. If you do not want to be with him, why would you still hold onto him? If you don't want to treat him nicely, then why would you stop me from treating him nicely? How can you be so overbearing? Why would you still keep him by your side? I just wanted to say a few nice things about Mr. Roberts to you. Why would you