My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress

"Wait a minute. Did you... Did your memory return?" asked Greg as he realized something.

"No. Just a few fragments of memory showing up in my head. As usual... nothing important to remember. You guys won't tell me either, so what choice do I have?"

Greg sighed sadly. "Not that we didn't want to tell you, but we just don't know what happened."

"Yes, the same answer as my family. I'm not a child, and I know for sure there is something you are hiding from me."

"Vincent..."

"Forget it. I don't care anymore. It's in the past." Vincent said it in a cold tone and walked back into the main room to join his family circle.

"By the way, I heard you already have a lover."

Vincent rolled his eyes at that. Vincent was very familiar with the car that passed yesterday while honking its horn. The car belongs to his brother-in-law. And it was true, as soon as he entered his house, Vanessa had asked him thousands of questions about Cathy.

Vincent just sighed resignedly, realizing that his sister must have spread this news to all his acquaintances. The rumors spread very quickly. Vincent grumbled to himself.

"Not yet. But I plan to make her."

"Hoo?" there was a clear, cheerful tone to Greg's voice. "Little Vincent is all grown up now."

Vincent snorted and ignored his last teasing words.

"Greg, how do you impress a girl?"

"Ah? I thought you already knew. You even taught Pasha to get Sophia."

Well, hid did. Vincent and Frank have to work hard to help the passive Pasha to woo the girl, who finally got married a few weeks ago.

Vincent smiled as he remembered he had to make Sophia fly to Pina the day before their wedding. Pasha was frowning all day and didn't want to work and ignore his call.

"Believe me, the girl I'm pursuing is different. She won't be blown away if I give her flowers. I also can't take her somewhere beautiful or romantic because surely she won't be fascinated by any of it."

"Your girl is so weird. What woman doesn't like flowers unless she's blind."

"...." to be precise, color blind. Vincent kept the answer to himself. "Well, one doesn't have to admire something through the visual alone. It can be through voice o ... things she likes. You have to work even harder to woo her."

"I know it." Vincent's breath was rigid when he answered, and his face turned pale.

"Are you okay?" Greg has a bad feeling seeing Vincent's condition, which looks unwell.

"I don't know. My head... feels dizzy." Vincent's voice turned weaker and hoarse as if he had not to drink for weeks.

Vincent leaned one body against the wall and then fell. He felt Gregorius Alvianc helped him by supporting his limp body and repeatedly called him before losing consciousness.

***

Vincent woke up in a familiar place with a frowning look. Why is he back here again?

"Shh... don't make a sound."

Vincent saw a woman squatting in front of a wardrobe.

Chloe? Isn't that Chloe? She's alive?

"Chloe, who are you talking to?" It was not the question he wanted to ask, but he did not have control over his body.

How weird!

Chloe immediately rose to her feet and closed the cupboard. "Nobody," she replied and rushed past him.

Without his command, his feet marched on towards the wardrobe and opened it. However, there was nothing but neatly arranged clothes inside the closet.

Vincent turned back to get out of the room when he saw a woman covered in blood, lying lifelessly on the bed.

Vincent's face was shocked as he stared at the scene in front of him in horror. The woman raised a hand towards him, and that's when he was startled and woke up from his nightmare.

Vincent opened his eyes and was confused by the surroundings while adjusting his breathless gasps.

This is not his room, no... this was his room. To be precise, he often slept in this room when he stayed at this house. Vincent saw the Alvianc couple looking at him worriedly to his left.

"What happened?"

"There were some chemicals in your body that make you hallucinate." answered a stranger next to him.

"He's a doctor. We're lucky there was a doctor among the guests today."

"Hallucinations? I'm not hallucinating at all. My head... is just dizzy." Vincent had forgotten whatever he saw in his dream and was sure he did not hallucinate.

"It's because only a little bit goes into your body, so the effect is not very intense either. But this type of drug was powerful, so even if you take it on a small scale, you will still be affected. Well, it was nothing to worry about, but I suggest that you stop consuming the drugs."

An eyebrow raised when he heard this. Really, what kind of man he is in the doctor's eyes? When has he ever taken drugs? His parents would beat him up and throw him out of the house if he did.

After the Alvianc couple expressed their thanks, the doctor returned to the event while Alice, Greg, and Vincent seemed to be thinking something very seriously.

"Did you drink something? Or inhaled some gas without you knowing?" asked Alice because she knew Vincent was not the one who took the illegal drug.

"I don't know. But I haven't drunk from this place at all. That means maybe I inhaled something without realizing it."

"You want me to investigate?" this time, it was Greg who asked. Knowing what the man could do, Vincent only smiled. He was sure that the man would immediately get the answer if he mobilized his men.

"No need. Besides, nothing happened to...Hufh!!?" suddenly, Alice squeezed Vincent's cheeks with exasperation making him unable to talk clearly.

"You haven't changed at all. If you're in danger, you don't want to find out the cause. But if someone threatens your family, you started to pull out your fangs and claws. If you keep behaving like this, I won't care about you. Hmph!" annoyed, Alice walked out and returned to the crowd of guests, making Vincent speechless.

"I wonder why you married her." his statement earning a chuckle from the second master Alvianc. "Anyway, my family doesn't know yet, right?"

"Not yet. We know you don't want your family to worry about you."

Hearing this, Vincent breathed a sigh of relief. After making sure that he didn't feel dizzy anymore, Vincent and Greg walked into the main room to join their family.

Vincent realized someone was looking at him with great hatred and anger all day long. That person was Stevanord Paxton or more commonly known as Steve Mango. 

Well, he could do nothing about the man's hatred, so Vincent did not care and joined Felicia and Benjamin.