My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress

Vincent sighed and dropped the hand that had been holding the key upwards. He knew that the girl was quick-witted, but he never expected her to be much smarter than he thought.

He rose to his feet and looked at his portrait on his digital camera. He doesn't like using a digital camera. Still, on this particular day... specifically on the beach, he purposely used the camera so he could take the picture he wanted much faster.

As expected, he was able to steal the girl's picture as she smiled without being caught. The girl only showed a sincere smile when she saw her siblings laughing. No one could make her smile like that before except her three younger siblings.

Vincent stroked the camera screen with his thumb. More precisely, his thumb was caressing the image of Cathy's face, who was smiling broadly from the side position.

"No one would ever know about your flaw if your smile is beautiful like this." he sighed heavily. "Is there no way to make you smile through the beauty of the world?"

Vincent sees another photo stored on his camera. He saw the moment Cathy laughed with his coworkers while playing volleyball; or when Cathy hugged her younger siblings with big laughter; almost all of Cathy's smiles and laughs were only aimed at her younger siblings.

Once again, Vincent sighed heavily, and then there was an image in his mind. He felt that an old buried memory suddenly emerged when he saw the girl's face.

He enlarged the screen showing Cathy's face from a side position, showing reddish hair. As far as he knows, Cathy's hair color was light brown... but why is it turning red on his camera?

Her hair still looked brown, but this brown had turned redder when the sunlight illuminated it. This kind of hair color was the hallmark of a Paxton offspring. Only the Paxton family has this reddish-brown hair color.

When he looked at the girl's face from the side, her face rang a bell in his mind. He felt nostalgic, as if he had ever met the girl.

Who is it? Who is the woman who had a similar face with Cathy?

Vincent closed his eyes while trying to dig into his memory. There is a large house with a towering iron fence and engraving of two large lions that adorn the house's main gate.

Then, he saw the back of a lady with reddish-brown hair standing in a large house yard.

That lady... isn't that...

Kring! Kring!

His room phone suddenly rang, erasing the image in his memory, making his dug memory reburied deep back in his mind.

"Hello... Ah, you don't need to... Okay, then. I'll be there in a minute... My partner? He came home the day after yesterday with the guests... See you later."

After hanging up the room phone, Vincent glanced at the camera he was still carrying.

He wondered if there could be some connection between Catherine and that lady? Could it be that Catherine was the woman's daughter? Impossible. The lady in his mind has never been married in her life.

Or is it possible that Cathy was that woman?

"What nonsense," he answered to his own mind. "Catherine's not that woman. That woman is dead, and Catherine's still twenty-five. Besides, Catherine isn't from the Paxton family." he said confidently before turning off the camera.

Once again, Vincent laid down and returned to his original thoughts. He recalled the first time he saw Cathy in Green Park with her four younger siblings.

Vincent was a person who loves his family. He was warm and gentle, sometimes even mischief only to his family and closest friends. But he will act normal when dealing with strangers. Some approached him with a hidden intention. His attitude would turn cold and see this kind of person as an enemy.

His current personality had been built as he witnesses firsthand how someone heartlessly and cruelly hurt their own biological family.

It was none other than the Paxton family. Because of them, his heart became closed, and he always behaved vigilantly whenever he met strangers.

He would act hostile when someone approached his family suspiciously. It was because of his distrust of other humans; he regarded Cathy as his nemesis when he found out that she was using his best friend to meet V.

Since his heart was closed, he has decided not to open up to strangers and form his own team. His team members were his chosen people whom he fully trusts. With the help of his team, he could protect his loved ones from them... from the greedy, ambitious, and ruthless Paxton.

Since then, it was infrequent for people to touch his closed heart. Nothing worked to make him want to be friends with someone. If he decided that he did not want to be friends with someone, then no one would be able to persuade him to become friends with that person.

So far, he was the one who started his friendship like Frank and his team. If he were attracted to someone's talents, he would approach them and treat them friendly.

At the same time, he would test them whether they could be trusted or not. If they passed his tests, he would offer them to join him.

But if they failed and that person planned to betray him, Vincent would no longer contact him.

That day was the first time. He saw a young girl who looked at her three younger siblings so lovingly it touched his heart. And when he saw with his own eyes, the West sisters showed each other affection with shameless cheek kisses; make him smile sincerely. It's rare for adults to kiss their sisters in public.

Since then, Vincent had never stopped being curious about a girl named Catherine West. His curiosity grew even more when he heard the girl's intelligent actions when solving obstacles.

Without realizing it, he thought that girl was the most beautiful girl he had ever met. Without realizing it, his attitude changed when he met the girl. Without realizing it, his eyes were always looking for and following the girl's back.

Because of that, he always followed Cathy wherever the girl went. He wanted to be with the girl as often as possible and get to know her more further.

But who would have thought... Cathy's weakness that was so perfectly hidden... had been found out by him.

If he had just handed over the grey dolphin, he would never have known that Cathy had a disability.

If he hadn't asked her about her favorite color, he certainly wouldn't have known that girl had a weakness.

Vincent took a deep breath and recalled the girl's broad laugh on the beach earlier.. After thinking about how he felt, he finally made up his mind.