Chapter 5 - Villain

All her senses were on alert. Her heart was beating so hard that she was no longer able to separate the individual blows.

She felt like a helpless animal under his gaze.

Alexander looked at the pale face of the girl. She was frozen. But if she did not move, she was more like a life-size porcelain doll. How she stared innocently across the table with her big blue cat-like eyes.

He leisurely let his greedy gaze wander from her sapphire-blue lakes to her voluptuous lips.

A cloud of chocolate brown curls snuggled around her heart-shaped face and fell softly over her petite shoulders. The delicate, white skin contrasted sharply with the dark curls and her red lips.

It was not for nothing that the fine gentlemen had given her the nickname Snow White.

He did not know a woman who deserved the name more than she did, as if she'd slipped out of Grimm's storybook.

"Lillian de Clermont, I'm glad to finally meet you." He greeted her with a cheeky grin.

Lillian collapsed abruptly. "Who are you?"

"Alexandre de Valois." He could barely hide the pleasure in his voice. "And that is probably the most wanted Adrien de Bourbon." Lily glared at him in panic. She would not let this man snatch Adrien from her without a fight.

Here came the villain. The icy, arrogant CEO of a billion-dollar empire. He was a workaholic, the only thing that counted for Alexandre was business.

After his father had withdrawn completely from the family business five years ago. It was now in the hands of Alexandre to increase the de Valois fortune.

And Elodie.

In the novel he was obsessed with Elodie, she was like his only ray of light in the darkness. But she belonged to his half-brother, which is why he was even more eagered to get her.

But now Elodie was dead.

And....That was not the only mistake in the whole thing.

There was no longer a protagonist who could stop the unscrupulous businessman in his rage.

What did he do here?

Lily froze into a pillar of salt while questions danced tango behind her forehead.

Even her carefully scraped courage, along with her sanity vanished directly into a black hole inside of her.

As if petrified, she stared at him. Motionless.

Everything she knew.

She had a problem.

A huge problem!