The Young Master in the Shadows

“Oh, A fiancé ?” Victor asked the twins, in a cold voice.

“According to rumors, he is a perverted and depraved young man. It is said, he sleeps with two maids every night and spends his days in brothels, In addition, he tried to rape his new maid, and because she refused him, he almost killed her. And I heard he once tried to force Linda to do it with him and 3 other men at the same time but was saved by a friend at the last moment. Poor miss Linda has to marry such a shameful man because his family can make hers go bankrupt and her father would be demoted in seconds. She has no choice. I hope that evil fiancé dies in the arms of some prostitute so that miss Linda would be free.”

Mina said with hatred spilling from hers and Mana’s eyes. as if they were wishing they can strangle such a beast fiancé and save the noble miss Linda.

But what surprised them was the sudden smack upside their heads, it made them almost hit the front seat.

“Ah, Why, young master,” they said while looking at Victor with tearful eyes.

In truth, Victor did not want to smack them, but these two fools were cursing at him.

“Let me tell you a little secret,” he said with a cold voice, “I am your sweet miss Linda’s evil fiancé.”

“Ah.” Both Mina and Mana screamed and quickly pulled back from Victor’s sides as if they were avoiding the plague.

“CALM DOWN,” He ordered them in a firm voice.

“AND YOU, FOCUS ON YOUR DRIVING.” He yelled at Leo, who was so agitated he was about to lose control of the car.

After about two minutes in silence. Victor began to speak after a long sigh.

“You shouldn’t trust rumors, Most of them are not true, Although I don’t have to tell you the truth, I feel that I should make things clear. “
He said,
“But what I am going to say now will stay between us, understood ?”

The girls looked at each other and nodded.
“you too,” Victor said to the sweating Leo, who stretched his neck wanting to hear the conversation in the back.

“Yes, sir,” he said, while big drops of sweat were forming on his forehead.

“Well it is not really a secret, but you must know that my family forbids sexual relationships before becoming an adult. And my adulthood ceremony was the day before yesterday. So how can attempt to rape Linda, let alone spend time in a brothel ?” he said to the skepticizing girls.

“As for the ‘raping a maid’ rumor, that one has some truth to it. But she was the one who wanted to seduce me, and I was young back then. Luckily, my father caught us in time, or else I would have been kicked out of the family. As a punishment, he sent me to an all-boys boarding school. I could only sleep with three other stinky guys in a dormitory most of the year.” He continued with an aggrieved voice while remembering his roommates.

“I only met Linda three times anyway. And that was with our parents. As for the engagement, it was her mother, Amelia Cross, who begged my grandmother for help before, as she needed help due to some internal turmoil in her family, and she promised to be my family’s ally in return. My grandmother asked her for a guarantee so that she would not burn the bridge after crossing, so that woman packaged her daughter and offered her to be a wife to any heir in my family, and my grandmother chose me as I was only older than Linda by a few months and we were suitable for each other. You have to understand something. The one who truly holds the power in her family is her mother. She belongs to a branch of a family as strong as mine. as for her father Otto Cross, he is just a facade.”

“But young master, doesn’t that mean she was a hostage?” Mana asked in a timid voice.

“Yes and No, While in theory, she was like that, the truth is, women from noble families rarely have a say in their marriage and would be sometimes offered for some old men to be concubines, especially a beautiful girl from a branch family. So for her to marry me, and as an official wife, was a very good deal. According to my father, her mother was very pleased, at that time.”

The girls were a little shocked, they did hear of such practices, Arranged marriages between big families have been practiced in old times, and appeared frequently in novels and dramas. But they didn’t know that they continued to these times.

Victor looked at them, then continued,
“It was all good until I was about ten years old. Due to me being sickly, I didn’t have a good standing in the family and soon fell out a favor. It was expected that I will not inherit anything, and be kicked out of the family sooner or later. Seemingly, Linda and her mother heard about that and began to have second thoughts about this engagement. After the incident with the maid, she took the opportunity and came to see my grandmother. Using the incident as the reason, she requested the change of the engagement target to another heir, but my grandmother firmly refused, changing the engagement is not good for the family’s image and would cause some internal conflicts as Amelia now holds an important position in her family. After that, the rumors defaming me began to circulate. So who do you think is spreading those rumors?”

“Ah, young master.., that..., Miss Linda would never ...” the twins did not seem to know what to say. they didn’t know if they could believe Victor.

“I don’t really care if you believe me or not, and Linda would never confirm any of these rumors. she dares not. but you two are my maid, and you are now siding with someone who you barely knew against your young master. you should be ashamed of yourselves.”
He said and caused them to lower their heads in shame.

“Well, not all the rumors are false, anyway.” He said with an evil smile. “I did sleep with the two of you last night.”

Suddenly the car jerked. Poor Leo could not swallow that last piece of information.
He lost his attention for one moment, and almost hit the car in the front.

He quickly adjusted the car and made a sharp turn to the right while pressing the brakes, but they did not seem to work.

In the next instant, the car turned over and began to roll at a high speed, crashing into the highway’s traffic barriers.