Way Back Into Love (Essie)

Chapter 185 Brothers Fought Against Each Other (Part One)

Walt had already devised the perfect plot against his brother. Everything was going according to his

plan, using Valery, Elizabeth and Vinton to accomplish it. The last thing he expected was for the woman

he longed for to appear halfway and involve herself in the deadly whirlpool he had spent so much time

building.

It seemed as though God was not on his side, and always found a way to throw obstacles on his way.

However, even God couldn't stop or hold him back. He wanted to take control of the Rong family, and

he also wanted the girl. There was no way he would let anything slip under his eyes again.

When dinner ended, Essie and Zac drove Eva back to her rented apartment before going back to the

dreaded Rong Mansion.

While waiting for the stop light to turn green, Zac turned his head and looked at Essie and said, "I didn't

expect that you were so capable when it came to golf."

"I was a golf caddy during my four years in college. I was able to learn some tricks and techniques from

the coach in secret," she explained passively, and hoped not to arouse suspicion.

"It seems like you have a very well developed cerebellum. I guess you aren't so dumb after all," he said

jokingly, lifting the corners of his mouth. He glanced at her with an affectionate expression all over his

face.

"I have an IQ over 160, why would you think I was stupid?" She folded her arms across her chest

discontentedly and puffed out her cheeks while glaring at him. Essie was aware that she was a little

disorderly, but there are many geniuses with a high IQ who were chaotic in their own ways.

"You scored over 160 on your IQ test? I just can't see it!" Zac jested in a playful voice pretending to be

in shock and couldn't believe. Teasing and blowing the little idiot's mind had already become one of his

favorite things to do.

"Geniuses don't reveal their inner strength so easily. People with such low intelligence such as yours

would never come close to understanding the minds of the intelligent," she said sarcastically, with a

ferocious pout on her bottom lip. He had a dual master's degree in architecture and business

administration, and was also proficient in eight foreign languages. Essie was well aware that his IQ was

certainly above hers. However, now she was deliberately trying to belittle him to piss him off because

he had spent all this time looking down on her, making her feel like such a fool all the time.

"You are right." He touched his chin lightly and said in a deep, low voice, "From this moment onwards, I

have decided to know more about intelligent people like you. Maybe it's time for me to find out all your

little secrets."

"There are a lot of secrets hidden under my belt. However, you're not allowed to know unless you're

willing to exchange secrets with me too. Otherwise, you will never find out even if you spend the rest of

your life trying." She smirked and quietly thought, 'If one day, he'd find out about my most valuable

secret, I wonder if he would be scared witless?'

"Honey, I swear to you that I will give myself to you completely and without reservation in four months'

time." There was suddenly a stern look on his face, making him appear very serious about his words.

She frowned quietly. The truth about Valery's baby wasn't the only thing he was hiding. Besides that,

she couldn't come close to understanding why he had secretly put photos of her on his office desk.

Essie pondered on what all of this meant.

As soon as she remembered those photos, her heart was suddenly filled with warmth. Soon enough,

the gloomy frown on her face was replaced by a smile full of sunshine.

The next day when Walt arrived back in the Rong Mansion, Mary excitedly ordered the chef to prepare

his favorite dish of roasted pigeons.

When the golden brown pigeons were brought to their dining table, Ivy suddenly teasingly smiled and

said, "Cousin Walt, whenever you come back home, all the pigeons in our house will suffer."

Walt smiled back and said, "However, you seem to be happier about those roasted pigeons more than I

am."

Ivy stuck her tongue out and said, "It seems that auntie is quite unfair towards us. Whenever we asked

for roasted pigeons, she had always responded by saying that they were lovely creatures and it would

be a pity if we just ate them. The moment you come back home, she immediately ordered to throw all

the pigeons to their deaths in the kitchen with no hesitation."

Walt touched her head softly and said, "Have you been praying every day for me to come back home?" Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

"I have been, in fact. Whenever you come back, all of us can have roasted pigeons to eat every day,"

Ivy answered while licking her lips like a greedy cat.

Zac and Essie just arrived in the dining table. They had come down together for brunch as soon as

they woke up.

When Ivy saw the bruises on Essie's neck, she suddenly let out a peculiar laugh and said, "Have you

guys been fighting again until dawn yesterday?"

Zac waved his hand and patted the back of her head and said, "You're just a child. What do you know

about these things?"

Ivy pouted and said, "Well, I just had my 18th birthday so I am officially an adult now."

Essie pulled up the collar of her shirt, feeling a little flustered from the situation. This icy guy was a

ferocious beast and would always trouble her at night. He wouldn't stop until he knew she had his

marks on her body.

Walt sat quietly on the table with eyes filled with burning rage, as if it could burn him into ash. The

bruises on her neck were even more than he could manage, and he could feel his red laced eyes

sizzling from the inferno inside him.

Perhaps he and Zac were born into this world to be rivals. Since they were in their mother's belly, they

had already competed for nutrition and on who would come out of this earth first. As they grew up, they

continued to fight for their status in the family, and for the women they wanted to have. For now, Zac

was the victor, but everything truly belonged to Walt, and he vowed to take them back progressively,

little by little.

Zac's eyes fell on the plate of pigeons in front of him and said, "I knew that the moment my brother

arrived back, there would be tons of pigeons to eat. Mother has always been biased and treated us

unfairly since we were little boys. I often doubt that he came from our mother, but I was only picked up

from the outside." A teasing smirk appeared on Zac's face.

Walt also smiled back, but his eyes remained stoic with animosity that burned like acid.

'If only Zac was the one who was brought in from outside, my whole life would be so much easier,' he

thought quietly.

His mother and father always let Zac do everything by himself and never really paid much attention to

him. However, they raised him seriously and they always were determined to instil certain manners and

coached him patiently. Walt believed that his parents originally intended for him to be the heir of the

family business. After all, he was the eldest son of the family. However, both his grandparents favored

his younger brother too much. They doted on him, spoiled him and treated him like flesh. They even

decidedly got Zac to take over the family business in the future.