My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress

A charming red-haired girl was sleeping on a royal kingdom-like bed. Her skin was milky white and smooth with a slender slim figure. Her nose was sharp, and both her eyebrows were perfectly formed beautifully. Her beauty stole everyone's breath when they see her. It was as if the girl emitted undeniable pheromone to charm everyone. Even when sleeping, that girl looks gorgeous like the famous sleeping beauty.

People who treated the girl called her like a sleeping princess waiting for a prince's kiss to wake her up.

Unfortunately, her beauty was lessened due to various kinds of wounds adorning Katleen Morse's body. Not that she was less beautiful, but people were sympathetic and hated to whoever had the heart to injure this poor lovely girl.

Katleen only woke up from a long sleep after being given the antidote twenty hours ago. Kitty opened her eyelids weakly and revealed a pair of beautiful amber eyes.

She looked around in dismay as if she was sensing someone else will attack her. But only when Kitty heard the voice of her best friend and a friendlier environment, then could she breathe with relief.

"Kitty, thank goodness. I thought I would lose you," sobbed someone who was now tightly hugging her neck.

"Cathy .." groaned Kitty with difficulty, patting her shoulder. "I can't breathe."

Cathy immediately let go of her hug and looked at her worriedly.

"Are you all right? Is your head dizzy? Go lie now and rest much longer."

Kitty laughed, trying to ease her best friend's worries. "I'm all right. Am I okay now? Besides, I will get dizzier if I kept lying down."

"Are you sure?"

"Hm." Kitty ensured her by nodding her head in full of confidence.

Then the two of them hugged each other again with great relief.

"You reckless rascal, why did you inject the poison into your body without my permission. That evil guy is lying. From the start, he didn't plant any bombs in my house. It was a big con." grumbled  Cathy with small sobs.

But her sobs this time were not cries of sadness or fear but of great relief that her friend had woken up.

Kitty also shed tears because she didn't think that she would still be alive.

"Alright. It's already in the past, and both of us are fine. Don't cry. I'll cry if I keep seeing your tears."

Cathy chuckled at her friend's threat, and once again, both of them embraced each other with great joy.

If only someone didn't clear his throat to break their embrace, they would continue to be in the same position and not let go of each other.

"Sorry to interrupt your time. But, I'd like to speak to Miss Katleen if the second mind wouldn't mind."

Cathy was still not used to being called the second miss by Alpha and Zero members. Plus, Zero was her adoptive father, but Cathy must pretend not to know the real identity behind the mask.

Knowing Zero would not possibly pressure Kitty or harm her, Cathy allowed the two of them to talk privately.

Cathy had no idea what the two were talking about, but she suspected they spoke of something about the red queen. Alpha and Zero have heard their conversation ever since Cathy and Kitty cried out loud. At that time, Kitty had just injected poison into her body.

There was a skilled assassin out there who is always ready to kill anyone who knows the red queen's identity. Therefore, Zero II warned her not to mention anything about the red king, including Vincent. Hence Cathy locked her lips pretended to hear nothing regarding the red queen.

Cathy was daydreaming outside when two men walked over to her. Her trance broke as soon as she felt a thick finger massaging her frowned forehead.

"You better sleep there. Your face has become very ugly because there are black bags under your eyes."

Cathy scowled at that and turned to the man next to her.

"Am I that ugly?"

"No. You look beautiful. You are always beautiful in my eyes."

Kinsey snorted at that while rolling his eyes lazily. On the contrary, Cathy smiled broadly, ignoring her brother's taunts.

"Someone here to meet you." was the announcement from Vincent. It's just that the tone of his voice sounded tense made Cathy's body stiffen. "Frank will escort you to the meeting place."

"How about you?"

"I'll catch up with you later."

"Okay," answered Cathy obediently after considering something. "I won't let it slide if you fight." threatened Cathy before finally disappearing from their sight.

How did Cathy know that Kinsey intended to beat Vincent up into a pulp as soon as Cathy left? He still hasn't settled a score on this man for marrying his sister behind his back!

Well, now he can't do what he wants after hearing his sister's threat, can he?

"When are you going to tell me that you married my sister, huh?" it was apparent that Kinsey didn't like the fact that his sister had a husband.

"You already know?"

Kinsey snorted in annoyance. "The ring on her finger is similar to the ring you wear. I'll be a fool if I can't recognize the wedding ring."

"S... should I start calling you brother?"

Kinsey looked at Vincent with disgust in response to his brother-in-law's crisp humor.

"I am just kidding." Vincent raised his hands in surrender to face his brother-in-law, who was in a super bad mood.

Vincent decided to join his wife. He didn't miss Kinsey's eyes as he walked past him.

Vincent knew the meaning of Kinsey's gaze very well when he looked at a door to someone's room. Vincent smiled at him before continuing his footsteps.

It seemed he didn't have to worry about Kinsey going against his relationship with Cathy. That brother of his wife has something more important than his sister's marriage.

The man was in love with Katleen Morse.

***

"My name is Friska. I am the daughter of Rischa. My father... he is the first Zero who Aiden Paxton captured."

Cathy stared at her in surprise. When Vincent said someone wanted to meet her, she did not expect that she would meet a young girl who claimed that her parents were Rischa and Zero.

Cathy's intelligent brain thinks quickly and starts to guess... does that mean the older man who helped her at that time is the first generation Zero? Then what happened to that poor older man? How could she forget the man and forget to thank him?

"What about Zero I? What happened to him?"

"Our men found his body. He's... dead." was the answer from Frank.

Cathy's throat suddenly hurt, especially when she saw Friska's lost expression. She should have expected it. The man was very old and weak. Only a miracle and great determination made the man survive.

If Cathy were not selfish and left the first Zero alone there, would Friska still be able to meet her father?

"I... I'm sorry and feel the loss for you," said Cathy, holding the young girl's hands. "Your father was a great man. Even when he was sickly, he was able to break the chains that held him and protected me." he had also saved Vincent nineteen years ago. Cathy continued her words in her mind. "I'm sorry because your father had to protect someone like me."

Tears were dripping down the corners of Friska's eyes.

"I know. I often hear it from my mother. Mother also often tells about you and how father always protected you both. Today I came to see you because I would like to give this to you." Friska gave Cathy a steel rod with a star-shaped tip and a circle in the middle.

"What is this?"

"This is the Stealth satellite activation key. You have to separate from Rischa because Miss Chloeny entrusted the key to my mother. And now I return it to its real owner."

Chloe didn't want to put her baby daughter in danger if there was an activation key on her side. Now Cathy understood why she had to separate from Rischa.

"Where is Rischa? Where is your mother? I want to meet her."

Friska shook her head sadly as she answered her question. "The news regarding the first miss's death has shocked her very much. And when she realized my father disappeared without news, her health gets worsened. She ... passed away after falling ill and being hospitalized for two months."

Hearing other unfortunate news made it difficult for Cathy to breathe. Unbeknownst to her, the people who protected her, cared for her since a baby have left this world? All of them left her without letting her showed her gratitude. Even just saying thank you, she couldn't do it. Why is her fate so cruel to her?

Even though Cathy only remembered the two of them vaguely, Cathy still feels a feeling of deep sorrow. The grief at the loss of loved ones. Then what about Friska? The young girl grew up with her parents and accepted the risks of her father's profession.

Today Friska was officially an orphan after hearing the news of her father's death.