The Devil's Secretary

Chapter 71: Extravagant display

Daisy had not brought a lot of their clothes with them and whatever they had, it was left in the hotel in Beijing where they were staying prior to the event. Later, she got a few stuff from a local store when they were on their way to Ryle’s plane. But she had brought things only for a few hours, so still they did not have a lot of option.

With the current weather in LA, she did not want to take any risks of flying there with Angel. In that case, they would be requiring a lots of essentials, ’’Let’s go. I’ll take you shopping and we can have anything you want,’’ she paused for a moment before adding, ’’Including strawberries.’’

The girl’s eyes sparkled, ’’Shopin...’’

’Knock’

A series of consecutive knocks on the door interrupted the moment. Daisy fixed her dress that was mostly crumpled by Angel before she walked up to the door.

The moment the door opened, four women entered the room with two tall clothing racks.

Angel who was initially, lazing around on the couch slowly glided down and approached the rack where she saw clothes similar to her own. Smaller in size.

Daisy initially thought that they had arrived at the wrong place but when she noticed the clothes on the racks, she knew they were not at the wrong place. One rack was full of adult female clothings while the other contained of beautiful outfits for baby girls.

’’Excuse me, these...’’

Daisy’s words were interrupted when more people entered the place with steady footsteps, pushing golden racks inside the room.

Shoes.

Outfits.

More shoes.

More outfits.

Baby shoes.

Baby outfits.

Jewelleries. Accessories. Bags.

And in the never ending cycle, a woman carried a small snow pine tree like structure inside the room. Upon closer inspection, Daisy noticed the hair bands, the beautiful hair clips, baby accessories strewn around it.

Her lips parted slightly. freёweɓnovel.com

’’Butuh...’’ Angel pressed her tiny hands on her cheeks as she squatted on the floor, looking at the display with two sparkling hearts in her eyes, ’’...butuhful..’’

Daisy snapped out of her daze at Angel’s utterance of a new term. Her lips twitched. Did she just say beautiful?

’’I think you are at the wrong place. Please empty the room,’’ Daisy crossed her arms in front of her chest.

’’Miss Chen?’’ All the women looked at each other before looking back at Daisy.

Daisy looked back at them with a straight face.

They looked at each other again before one of the women took to lead to speak, ’’I don’t think we got the wrong person, Miss Chen. We were ordered to deliver everything at your room. And I am the makeup artist as well,’’ she paused for a moment before pointing to the other women, ’’She is the hairstyle, she is responsible for spa, she is good with baby spa and she is good with trending styles...’’

’’I don’t need your services. Please contact the one who has hired you,’’ Daisy stepped to the side, emptying the space towards the door.

’’Even if they do contact me, I have no use for all these services.’’

The voice had Daisy turned on her heels, only to find Ryle leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed in front of her chest, his position mirroring hers.

’’It’s you,’’ she had a hunch that all this was his doing but when she saw the extravagance, she turned the thought down, believing that he would not be so idle.

Ryle smiled and straightened up, motioning at the staff members with a gaze. They politely greeted them before leaving the room.

’’Why would you do all this?" As soon as Daisy asked the question, she let out a soft sigh, ’’I appreciate the intention but please get it cleared. I don’t have a need for this.’’

’’Just how narcissistic can you be?" the man’s brows furrowed as he looked at her as if she was unbelievable.

Daisy blinked. Why were there a lot of first times with this man? He called her expressive last night and now narcissistic.

’’What makes you assume that all of this is for you?"

As he said that, Ryle walked past Daisy, straight up to little Angel who was squatting on the floor and looking at the display with sparkling eyes, ’’Do you like them?" he extended his hand towards her.

Angel placed her the tip of her index finger on his thumb curiously, her big greenish eyes blinking up at him, ’’Like...’’

Ryle smiled and pulled her up in his arms. As he stood up straight, he turned around to look at Daisy with a cheeky grin, ’’The one I prepared it all for seemingly adores it.’’

His smug face had ’see I pleased the head of the room. You ain’t doing anything about my stunt anymore’ look and suddenly, Daisy realized how childish the man was.

"If she likes it, she can keep it. But what about these?" she pointed her chin at more than four racks that were full of different styles of outfits for women. One was full of business suits, the other had more coquettish small dresses and so on.

Daisy patiently waited for the man to explain it.

However, Ryle just shrugged, ’’Up to you. You can throw them away.’’

The corner of her lips twitched but she remained silent, waiting for him to continue speaking. However, when he did not speak after some time, she nodded, ’’Very well then. I’ll ask the staff members to take these out...’’ she had just taken a step when the man spoke up.

’’You can do so but I bet little Angel would want to see her mom being all dolled up,’’ Ryle sighed, ’’She seemed pretty happy and satisfied with all these outfits,’’ he added with a crafty glint in his eyes.

Daisy turned to look at the man. freeweɓnovel.cøm

"She easily steals your limelight. The least you can do is doll yourself up so that this little beauty doesn’t feel bad about it.’’

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Daisy was about to retort to the man when a certain little traitor nuzzled her face in Ryle’s neck and looked at her from the corner of her eyes, muttering, ’’Mommy, butuhful...’’

Daisy felt weirdly cornered, suddenly sympathizing with Diana who always complained that Angel would side with Maxim over her with closed eyes. Apparently, being a handsome man came with perks.

Resigning, Daisy shook her head once, ’’Fine, but why are we dressing up?"