My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress

It's been two days since Catherine was discharged from the hospital, and during that time, she had been idle at home... by force.

The twins, who were usually difficult to wake up, actually wake up first before being awakened. Not only that, usually Cathy, who helped the twins prepared their textbooks, was already sorted out the night before.

When she offered to lend a hand in the kitchen, Anna pushed her and even kicked her out of the cooking area. Cathy tried to clean the warehouse or rearrange the furniture in her room, yet Aunt Len quickly stopped her and took her place to do what she wished.

Cathy knew her doctor told her not to be too tired and get plenty of rest. But this... Isn't it too much? Catherine was not someone who could sit still without doing something. She would go in a frenzy state if she just laid down, idling around while staring at the gray ceiling.

Usually, when she was unemployed at home, Cathy would unload the cardboard box in the warehouse and picked up something she thought she needed. Or she would tidy up her sister's wardrobe, which was messy almost every day. Her younger sisters did not have the patience to pick up clothes, thus just pulled everything out without returning its former place.

As a result, the neatly folded clothes spread all over and became wrinkled. Then they just throw the fallen clothes into the cupboard at random before closing the cabinet.

But every time she wanted to clean or tidy up a cupboard, Aunt Len again forbade her and insisted on replacing her activities.

Cathy felt that all residents in this house forbade her to do activities.

"I'm going crazy if I don't do something." Cathy protested to Aunt Len.

"Miss, please, you can relax watching movies while eating snacks. How is it?" Aunt Len even suggested this, which annoyed her.

But finally, Cathy complied and stepped into the family room. Strangely, she could see an image of her three sisters playing and teasing around with each other, followed by the laughter of her uncle's funny joke.

A second later, the images on their faces all vanished into thin air.

Cathy missed those times when her uncle would frequently come home and eat with her siblings. She was quite down to think that her uncle didn't care about her nieces again. However, she was apparently wrong.

Without her knowledge, Benjamin often asked about her condition when she was admitted to the hospital through Anna. Even Aunt Len and Anna concurred that Benjamin was concerned about her and almost called Aunt Len practically every hour.

Cathy wondered if Benjamin did care about her. If the man was anxious about her state, why did her uncle never visit her at the hospital?

She sighed in surrender, not wanting to bother looking for answers.

Cathy refocused her attention on the movie she chose while eating some light snacks. Alas, not even ten minutes after watching the movie, Cathy felt bored to death. What's the point of watching a film if she's alone? 

She couldn't seek her sisters' companion as they were at school by right now. In the end, she just grabbed her phone and browsed through one of her social media apps.

Not long after that, a chat from the application appeared, indicating someone texting her. Cathy opened her chat room and read the message she just received.

"Hi, how are you doing now?"

For the first time, she felt annoyed with a chat from a man named Vincent. And who knows since when she acted like a spoiled-grumpy girl when she saw that man. Anyway, this behavior was not like her at all.

She felt like she became a different person in front of the man.

'Bored to death!' was her reply to the chat.

A few seconds later, she got a reply.

'Get dress. I'll pick you up in half an hour.'

Cathy beamed at the message and got up to dress up. Finally... finally she could get out of the cage house.

Funny. Cathy was not someone who obeyed others once she wanted to do something. However, she couldn't retort the man nor Aunt Len that disallowed her to do anything, and yet, she did not dislike it.

And now, Vincent asked her out and dressed up. She was so excited as if she would be going to the school on the first day.

The problem is... how could she dress up beautifully? After seeing the closet contents, she chose a simple yet elegant casual knee-length dress that Anna had previously selected for her. She put on the soft natural makeup as usual. To confirm her appearance, she went out looking for Aunt Len.

"Aunt Len, how do I look?"

"Young miss, you look lovely."

"I am?"

"Yes. I'm sure your date will agree with me."

Cathy's cheeks reddened hearing the teasing tone from the kind older woman. "He's not a date. He's just a friend," explained Cathy in a shy-soft voice, earning an amused smile from Aunt Len.

A house bell was heard indicating a guest's arrival at Red Rosemary. Aunt Len could see the beaming light on the girl's face.

Ah, miss. He is your date, after all, to make your face sparkling like this. Of course, Aunt Len could only keep her words in her heart.

Cathy said goodbye to Aunt Len and walked out to open the gate of her house. Vincent was casually leaning against the door of a black luxury car.

Car?? Whose car? She was sure she never saw the car at her house. Cathy did not realize that her appearance at the moment stole a certain's breath away.

Vincent snapped out of his awestruck mind to greet the confused girl.

"Good afternoon, young lady. Have I ever told you that you are lovely today?"

Cathy tightened her lips to hold herself to smile upon the man's compliment. She just hoped her cheeks wouldn't be as red as a tomato at the moment.

She cleared her throat while trying to calm her rapid beating heart. Cathy was more curious about the owner of the car.

"Do I have a guest?"

Vincent's smile widened with a mischievous look. "That's right. You have a charming and handsome guest. Now, please come in, my lady."

What? Where?

[Vincent: Here *pointing himself*]

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