Trapped in Chain Love
Fiancee pretended

...Elise is not that stupid. She had felt in love before, even had a lover. He knows his current feelings can develop into love, so Elise tries to hold him back and thinks all the sweet words from Lucas are just a joke....

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Elise rubbed her eyes. The sunlight peeking through the curtains woke her who had just fallen asleep for a few hours because she brought the rest of her work home and eventually even reduced her sleep.

The clock shows at eight in the morning. He should still be able to sleep because today is the weekend, but the sound of knocking on the door that has since been heard requires him to get up and open the door.

'Who came here early in the morning?'

It was rare for someone to come to Elise's room. Only a few housemaids and Noise were there. So Elise was quite surprised when she saw the figure knocking on her door.

"Weekend is the right time to be lazy?"

The short and piercing apron came out from the mouth of the middle-aged woman who was staring at Elise indifferently. He is madam Julia, an unexpected figure who has no business what he came to see Elise directly like this.

"Ah—madam Julia's. I'm sorry I just opened the door,"

Elise was embarrassed. The image of himself in the eyes of madam Julia has been ugly since the beginning, plus today's incident is certainly the image is getting ugly.

"That's it, you don't have to feel sorry for that"

Not as usual, madam Julia let the irreverent attitude of Elise just like—what was she wrong to eat? Elise even thought strangely seeing the nature of Julia's madam is rather soft like this.

"Today my friends will come to visit, they are businessmen and wives of the owners of large companies, so don't embarrass me" she paused her remarks for a moment. "Don't misunderstand me. I'm not like this because I've admitted you. Fiona can't come because she's on vacation with Julian, I'll introduce you as Lucas' future fiancee. Be useful for today."

"Okay, madam Julia."

Answer irent. Madam Julia immediately left without looking at Elise again, letting the reddish-haired woman stand on the doorstep.

'It turns out he's still the same.'

There was still no gentleness in her speech, nor was her indifferent and annoyed gaze still the same as when Elise came first. Madam Julia had not changed at all, she still treated Elise like a thorn in the flesh.

After that Elise went to prepare. He wears the best clothes that would not embarrass Julia's madam when she played the role of a future daughter-in-law.

For a moment Elise was silent. His face was embarrassed as he realized his role today.

"I'm Lucas' fiancee!?"

He was late to realize that. Although only pretending but still Elise feels wrong with her own behavior—she prefers this temporary role rather than her status as Julian's fiance.

At least Lucas wouldn't treat Elise like Julian.

"So we're gonna be fiancee for one day, what do you think Elise is? Are you ready to be my temporary fiancee?"

Lucas spoke with a mischievous smile to make Elise ashamed of herself.

"Even though this is just pretend but I will try not to mess up, brother Lucas"

Lucas closed his mouth with a laugh. Another ignorant thought to play with the feeling of Elise was seethed in his mind, he could not help but tease his future sister-in-law.

"Kok you're disappointed because this is pretending to doang, do you want to be my real fiancee?"

For Elise it sounds like a deadly temptation because Lucas speaks while smiling sweetly—amat is very sweet even beat the honey from the nest.

Due to their respective busyness, the two of them rarely met. And when the meeting happens, it will only be filled by the temptation and mischievous nature of Lucas on Elise who treats him as a favorite sister. Elise did not hate him, only if for half a day he had to serve Lucas's behavior like this was not good for his heart and heart.

'Please calm down! If brother Lucas hears it I'm ashamed!'

Elise is not that stupid. She had felt in love before, even had a lover. He knows his current feelings can develop into love, so Elise tries to hold him back and thinks all the sweet words from Lucas are just a joke.

"Don't keep teasing me, Lucas. We can be late!"

Actually Lucas is holding Elise to not rush to the living room, he wants to chat with Elise after a few weeks did not meet—but it seems he can not do that now.

Lucas chuckled slightly, his hand pinched Elise's cheek briefly, and he walked a step forward.

"alright. Then come on, my fiancee"

Elise tried not to be touched by the sweet greeting from the thirty-one-year-old man. He walked along with Lucas to the central room, where the association of Julia madam relations.

Said one of Julia's madam friends, she praised Elise after chatting for a while with her. Meanwhile, Elise was just smiling knots. The praise from Julia's madam friend somehow weighed her down.

"Still candidates. He is not yet officially our family, I hope you do not expect too high on Elise ya mothers"

The atmosphere that was initially friendly suddenly became awkward because of Julia's madam's speech earlier. Julia's madam friend who praised Elise fell silent, she thought giving her daughter-in-law a compliment would make Julia happy, but it seemed that it was the wrong thought.

"Sorry, it's a bit long but I hope you guys like it"

Lucas appears with a trolley containing dessert. He was not there because cooking something—requests one of Julia's madam friends is eating the food that Lucas cooked himself, because apparently Lucas' popularity as a chef is already known by them.

Cheesecake is a dessert that Lucas created. Cake is white from milk and cheese, on top of which is decorated with blueberries that have a fresh sour taste so as to create a blend of good taste on the tongue.

"It's so good."

"Rubber. Luckily I was able to taste the food made by chef Lucas right away"

Lucas received praise from his mother's friends. He smiled and thanked them.

The gaze turned to look at Elise who was eating her homemade cheesecake. Elise enjoyed the dessert so much, seen from her radiant face as she chewed on the piece of cake on her fork.

Because he enjoyed too much, he did not realize there was a cream stain near his lips that were busy chewing.

Lucas chuckles. His hands stretched out to clean the cream stains using his fingers, spontaneously his behavior invited the attention of the people who were there.

"You're so focused on eating dessert that it's like this, Elise." Said brief. End the thin smile.

"Why don't you just tell me?" Elise whispered in embarrassment for receiving the sweet treatment in front of Julia's madam friends, let alone Julia's madam gaze also felt piercing to her.

"don't want. It's better to clean it yourself."

Though the weather outside was a bit cold, but Elise instead felt hot all over her face after hearing Lucas' blunt remarks. He was sure that by this time his face was already flushed red like a boiled crab.

"Hohoho, young couple huh. I love showing affection in public"

The words made Elise even more embarrassed. It felt like he just wanted to get out of there and shut himself in the room.

Unlike the response of his friends, Madam Julia actually looks unhappy when Lucas acts like a fiancee with Elise.

He put a fork, deliberately to make a sound that captured the attention of people there. Elise was instantly silent, she knew Madam Julia would definitely talk to her.

"Elise, please get me another drink in the kitchen. You want to, right?"

No more drinks in the kitchen. That means Madame Julia wants him out of there now. While looking at her with a fake smile, Elise nodded in agreement to the request from Madam Julia.

Elise left without anyone holding her back, meanwhile, Lucas looked at Elise grimly then stood up.

"I'll help him"

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Lucas and Elise are very sweet, so want to stop them hmmm♡(。)

Btw, even though I was in New York City, I didn't use all the habits of the New Yorkers or the Americans. Why that? Because I do not know about their culture, so please be understood if there are still words or activities that are 'local' (｡_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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