Chapter (9): Shopping time

"Are you sure that it is a good idea to go to a mall?" Dan had no mood for shopping.

"Look, Love! Now you have a strong pledge that you can't let it be uprooted. This child's health is our priority."

Dan smiled, walking to the full-length mirror. Mr. Qin had brought everything but her clothes. She was glad that he didn't bring them because she had memories of either meeting with them.

Fixing her collar, her mind was wandering over every word that Bella uttered, she didn't want to be dogmatic but she was not ready for it.

"Alright, we are done. When we returned, I'll help you put your books on the shelves."

Bella snatched her purse from the table.

"I thought you would go home to convince your father."

She dabbed on her shoulder and led Dan outside.

"Yes, I will but I called my mom and promised her to make my brother end his sulk."

She wasn't sure about what she wished, but this could help them both. Hu should stop tormenting their mother. She had never left him, but he was always stubborn and wanted her to be his mother only.

Getting outside of the mansion, they saw Victor who was standing beside a black Mercedes. Dan puffed in the air! How many cars did Mr. Qin have exactly? But she didn't care that much to bother and ask Bella.

"I thought we are going in my car!"

Bella frowned and taunted Victor Liu.

"Lady Bella, Mr. Qin told me that your car is unsafe and he sent it to a garage to be fixed."

The girls' mouths dropped open in disbelief, however, Bella looked irritated. Why did he send her cute baby car to the garage without even disturbing to tell her?

"What? I could fix Baby, why a garage?"

Victor strived to exterminate his smile, for what sake she was even calling that old pink car The Baby! He pulled his sunglasses up his nose bridge.

"You can solve this with your brother, please, get in the car, the sun is already down."

He pointed to the west side, the reddish hues of sun rays were splashing out, and their highlights made a dreamy scenery on the flaming yellow garden.

"Wow!" Dan whispered.

"Huh, how demanding, he has people like him around," Bella mumbled.

Dan was intoxicated by the scenery when the squeeze of Bella's fingers on her arm rubbed her attention.

"Calm down, probably he found an issue."

Dan attempted to ease this freak bull but she was now like a pretty devil, certainly, she was growing nice retribution against her brother.

Getting inside the car, Bella got calm and looked at Victor through the front mirror.

"Victor, why did those guys come to my brother's house unexpectedly? Did something happen?"

Victor peeked at her, he wasn't allowed to speak of his master's twisted situation.

"No, they are close friends, they live in B city. And once a month they come to S just to check on your brother."

Dandan gazed at Bella, a huge question mark was on her face.

"Doesn't Mr.Qin's family live here?"

Bella shook her head, "no, Love! It has been five years since my brother bought a company here and moved. He was living in B."

"Interesting, doesn't his father have any problem with him being away?"

"I don't think so, Hu left the country when he was fifteen, he had studied fashion in a private hostelry institute. Unlike me, he is a genius, he was always away."

"I'm speechless, why didn't you study fashion!"

Bella shrugged, "you know the reason, I love digital arts and my parents believe that seeking for becoming an animation producer is a waste of time."

Dan could feel her, she had seen her argument with Mr. Yang, and she knew how deeply rooted their struggles were.

Victor was carefully listening to their conversation, Miss. Tian sounded curious about Mr. Qin and it was a good sign.

Victor stopped the car in front of the luxury mall in S city. Dan felt discomfort, why did he bring them here?

"Ladies, River company is the first investor in this Mall, you can buy everything you want."

"What?" Even Bella was shocked, she had never paid attention to her brother's job as her parents always nagged at her not to abuse her brother's wealth, not to show off, as she wasn't interested too, so she followed the convenient path.

Getting out of the car, Victor handed the keys to a man by the door. The man in the black suit knew who Victor was, serving him respect, he took the remote and went to the car.

"Bell, it makes me nervous! What if someone sees us here? They will question us and I don't want eyes to be fixed on us."

Not just eyes, but also the mouths that were moving while her name was uttering out of them.

While pondering over her words, Bell smirked, "Dang them all, my brother is generous. And I don't will to reject his hand."

Dan sighed and followed her push to the prominent mall in the city.

Getting inside, the floors were made of black marble, the chandeliers had pleasant lights, and here was more like a castle rather than a Mall. The stores all had a different design and a Gothic one caught her attention.

"The diversity of stores makes me want to buy all of these!"

Bella's eyes were glowing, she loved shopping but she was never greedy like this.

"Follow me please, I think the second floor suits your taste."

The girls nodded and followed Mr. Qin's butler. People on the escalator gazed at them, no, it was something more than that!

"They are staring too much, Victor. Do they know you?"

Victor shook his head, "No, lady Bella, they are wondering about your beauty."

The girls blushed but giggled, his tone was stern and dry that they couldn't take it at all but even mentioning it was cool.

Arriving on the second floor, they just peered around startled.

"Here you can find what you want," Victor stated.

Without wasting the air with some words, they just got inside the stores and tried some dresses and clothing.

Bella was handing all the packages to Victor who was walking behind them, pushing a luxury glassy cart for them to settle their purchases in...

"I think we don't need anything else," Dan suggested, it was around three hours strolling there and she didn't want to pull Victor into the disturbance.

"Why? We didn't buy shoes yet."

"We can do it later," Dan already felt sick as the prices were so high. She didn't want Mr. Qin to speculate her being a vicious girl who wanted to intake all his wealth.

"Is it because of my brother?" Bella murmured beside her.

"Uhum, we shouldn't waste all his money, I don't want him to think bad." Her expression contorted.

Bella sneered, "you are so innocent, sister."

"Wow, look who is here! The cripple and the low born."

Bella was exhaling rage when the voice rang in her head, turning on her heels to kill Anastasia, she was held by Victor...

"Let me kill this whore."

"Sister, calm down, don't lower yourself for some trash."

Dan's head was down, her face tinted in the black aura, she was clenching her fists and peering at Anastasia.

Anastasia was scanning her from tip to toe with an amusing, mocking face that was tugged with a wide sneer. Folding her hands in her chest, she gestured, "what the heck are you doing here? Did you find a sugar Daddy? What a creepy fast wench you are!"

The other two girls with her giggled.

"You are going overboard."

Ouch! Victor groaned.

Bella cried out and smashed Victor's feet, storming to Anastasia like a bull that had just been released from the chain, and what could see was red.