Shall Under Your Charm

Chapter 85

Alice Crandall is a woman who is hard to hate. Petite, hasty in doing things, and easy to smile and like to play dirty, Ryan explained his mother. Alice has a cheerful and charming disposition, and seems to regard the world outside her garden as a strange and surprising place so it must be faced with caution. Alice looks shy in front of the crowd, and exudes warmth and anxiety, unless she is among her close friends. No one could doubt his generosity.

Aunt Okta had told Farah that when she arrived in America in fear, anxiety and sadness due to her lost nephew, Andreas immediately took her to Ryan's grandmother, a scary woman, who was very sad, yang yelled loudly demanding to be told what he had done to his nephew.

All of that becomes a nightmare for Aunt Okta, until Alice comes with Zayn to bring Aunt Okta to live in the main mansion. There, Alice makes Aunt Okta feel welcome as both a guest and a friend, because according to Alice all victims of Ryan's grandmother automatically become her sisters. During months of separation from Farah, Okta is helpless and can only seek out Farah through a convoluted path of diplomacy, Okta always gains the strength of Ryan's mother. It feels good to know that at least one thing is going well. Delightful. But once again - ironically.

Alice's forehead creased as she read a letter. Alice looked up and said, "We have to go to the party." Then, Alice added with an exasperated cry, "I can already guess." Alice placed the letter between her teeth, biting it with a silly irritated expression, and Farah found herself thinking, as she had done so often over the past three days, how Ryan's mother became a noble's wife. Alice's appearance confirms the opinion that a woman may look beautiful charming at the age of forty years although Alice's hair is more often seen sticking out here and there, her fingernails are not flat because of bitterness, and it often looks dirty by the ground, and there is a gap of two straws in the front teeth that Alice usually uses to slip the tip of her tongue, whenever Alice is thinking seriously, she said, like now he's doing. Alice sat next to Farah on the piano chair, tracing her finger over the symbol that was behind the envelope.

"This usually means trouble" Alice sighed. "The symbol of the Crandall family."

The symbol was a unicorn, exactly like the one in Farah's dream.he must have seen the symbol before, in the letter that Ryan's grandmother sent to Aunt Okta years before the mythical animal that lived and survived in Farah's heart. Unicorns. The Ryan family. A smile fell on the corner of Farah's mouth.

"Ryan...." Farah took the envelope from Alice, and walked over like a dazed person..

Alice's hand turned to the piano keys, and played a cheerful melody, making the keys dirty with dirt stains. "Well, maybe it was from Ryan, but now you know Ryan doesn't care about his royal status. His symbol stamp was probably already covered in thick dust because he had never used it. You know, we have a bronze unicorn-shaped statue in the courtyard, which was ordered by Ryan's grandmother directly from Italy for Ryan's birth gift. What an exaggerated gift for a baby."

"Do you know much about unicorns, Farah?" .

"No." Farah did not turn her face towards Alice.

In horror Aunt Okta exclaimed, "Oh, no!"

"How horrible is he?".Ask Farah.

Farah who was used to hanging out with the members of the Dark Devil started to smile.

"She likes to yell," Alice said. "He likes to insult. He likes to throw things. But not with men. I never want to be around him unless there's Ryan or Zayn beside me. Not that I'm a coward" Alice added, misinterpreting Merry's facial expression. "But, if I met him alone, all he did was criticize me for things done by things that were not really my fault. Now, Ryan's a grown man, and I don't want to always follow him."

Alice's hazel eyes turned sad. "Even if I want to, I can't control it either. In fact, when he was a kid he never needed me. He always depends on himself. But now he's changed." Alice gave a big smile. "Love. Oh, come on, don't look so embarrassed. I think for years I've never been this happy. Finally Ryan said this time he came home to settle down, whereas since his fifteenth birthday, he had hardly spent more than four days here. It's hard for Ryan to not have someone for his share, and he doesn't like the entertainment that noble men of his class used to enjoy. Card games bore him, as well as betting on the racetracks and horse races.Stroll in the park to gossip and chat about unimportant matters, he said, and he doesn't want to have a personal servant. Well, you just imagine it yourself."

While walking down her hands in a decoration, Okta said, "But, Alice, the girls of the upper class society still admire her."

"Indeed right. They are hypocrites! It's impossible to make them dislike Ryan." Ryan's mother rubbed her nose with her hands and left a stain mark there. "All because of his title, dan-yah, the others. They treated their father the same way. Whatever my late husband did became a trend. When she married me, two of her heavy admirers actually married the daughter of their respective gardeners even though one of them was twenty-five years older than the groom. And after we bought the mansion, the peasants could barely find any land that was still empty for them to work on that season, as nobles flocked to build houses as well. I was amazed at it! By the way Farah, can you dance?".

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