The Dragon General's Vengeful Return

4

Athena is saying thank you with tears in her eyes, but Pumpkin has already gone.

She hurries with the pack of cereal in a paper bag, pressed against her chest. She never thought that a day would come when her cousin would be nice to her…

As she gets to the gate, normally, the security never pay any attention to her, but since she is holding something in her hands (which is unusual) they stop her.

“Athena, what do you have in your hands?”

Athena’s heart pierce with fear. They want to take her precious cereal?

“Nothing! I mean, it's something, but it was given to me by my cousin! I didn't steal anything!”

“We didn't accuse you of stealing, Athena.”

“I know you are, by the way you are looking at me! My mother trained me never to take what's not mine, so you have nothing to fear.”

Her words of assurance did nothing for them, and before she knew it, she had been forcefully turned around, and she was being pushed back to the house.

“Well, if Miss Pumpkin gave it to you, then you don't mind us taking you back?!”

“What?! No!” Athena shrieks. She didn't steal this, but Aunt Finna will take it away from her.

She is screaming, and begging for them to let her go, but they don't listen. They throw her so hard on the floor of the living room so roughly that she falls against a couch and tears her knee open.

The box of cereal falls to the ground and spreads like beads. Her cousin whistles as she sees what's happening.

“What?!” Aunt Finna yells as she stares at the ground. “Did this little thief take my daughter's precious cereals?!”

“No! No, Aunt Finna, I would never steal from you! Pumpkin was the one who gave it to me. She said that she doesn't like them, she said it's okay.”

Aunt Finna’s eyebrows furrow with annoyance as she turns to her daughter.

“I did no such thing!” Pumpkin gasps with fake surprise. “Why would I give this pig something my father got for me from overseas? I merely turned around and she was gone with the box of cereal. I was perplexed too, mum.”

Athena immediately bursts into her hands with tears. Of course this was a trap, why didn't she see it? Her cousin would never give her anything on a silver platter.

“Please, Aunt Finna, you have to believe me! Pumpkin gave it to me, I would never call you a liar!”

One of the security flicks her in the back of her head. “Are you now calling the young Miss Pumpkin a liar?! How dare you come into this house to disrespect your Aunt so much?!”

But the truth is that everyone knows that Pumpkin is lying, even her mother.

She has a bad reputation everywhere she goes, even at school, but they all fail to admit that Pumpkin Kent is a chronic liar.

Now, poor Athena has to pay for it.

Aunt Finna grabs Athena by her chin and digs her fingers so deep into her skin that Athena screams.

“You dare to steal from me and lie against my daughter? I am going to teach you a lesson, you little brat!”

She raises her and as if to slap Athena, who has shut her eyes, bracing herself for the impact, but it never comes.

What comes is the shaking of the house that everyone immediately thinks that there is going to be an earthquake.

The beautiful ceramic figurines crash to the ground very loudly.

Pumpkin's eyes are filled with fear as she grabs her mother. “What's this, mum? What's happening?!”

“Mrs Kent, has Mister Kent finally bought the helicopter that he spoke so much about?!”

“No.” Aunt Finna murmurs. “My husband would have called to tell me if he got it!”

She holds on to her daughter's hand and everyone dashes out of the house.

Over twenty servants are already outside, everyone is wondering what has happened.

They collectively gasp when they see the helicopter hovering around the roof. It's a military helicopter…

“D– Daddy?” Athena shakes.