Chapter 483 - A Warning (1/2)

The three were looking at her with wide-open eyes at Kay's convincing performance.

The Crying Beauty was gone, replaced by a confident woman who wasn't bothered by anything. Her expression was back to normal and she wiped the few tears that had fallen.

”Well? Was that what you were aiming for?” Kay asked with a smile, ”Are you satisfied now? Has that somehow made you feel all good inside, seeing me cry and look helpless? If you like, I can do that all the time so that you can feel good about yourself.”

”How dare you!” Erica shouted, banging her hand on the table.

At that, Kay banged her hands on the table as well and brought her face close to Erica's, ”No, how dare you. Just because I have not said anything before, don't think I'm such a pushover. I ignored you all this time because it's not worth the effort.”

”However,” Kay continued, as she stood up and gave her a slow smile.

She ran a finger down the jawline of Erica, who was now frozen. and said softly, her voice tinged with some sort of danger in them, ”If you continue to push me, you're going to be wishing you never got up from bed that day.”

Taking her chin, she gripped it hard, causing tears to form in Erica's eyes, ”Ever.”

To everyone else, it looked like Kay was flirting with Erica as she 'caressed' her face. The expression on her face was still gentle and kind, as if she couldn't hurt a fly.

It was only Erica and the other two popsicles knew better.

The way her eyes stared at them, the way her voice sounded ... it scared them sh*tless.

All of their arrogance went out of the window. Being pampered young ladies of their household, they had never encountered any danger and right now, they were looking at one hecka scary person.

Erica and the other two were visibly shaken.

This was the first time they had seen this side of Kay and they felt immense regret for even confronting her today.

They knew of her powerful background but they also knew that the Smiths never 'attacked' anyone for personal reasons. Business was business. That was how they got to the top and stayed on top.

That was why Erica had been confident - so long as they didn't do something stupid like hurt Kay physically, there was no danger of any sort of retaliation from Kay's father.

They only made fun of her and tried to instigate others against her (though the latter hardly worked as Kay was as sweet as can be).

How were they to know that Kay, herself, was someone to be wary of?

As Kay sat down, the smile on her face never wavering, she added, ”Oh, just a word of caution.”

Erica still had the presence of mind to ask, ”Oh?”

”If,” Kay began, slowly drawing out her words, ”Something was to occur to me like, say, some unsubstantiated rumour aimed to tarnish my reputation or something, then three things would occur.”