"Hey there miss, what a coincidence. We meet again." It was the hooligan who harassed Silvia on the bus. He brought along some people with him this time. It seemed that he had been following Silvia.
"Yeah, what a coincidence!" Silvia smiled and answered calmly. She masked her fear really well.
"It's late. It's dangerous to go home alone. Let us take you home." The hooligan approached Silvia slowly and gave his accomplice a look. He was signalling for the others to surround Silvia.
Silvia smiled and said sweetly, "Well, I was just getting worried that I won't be able to get home in this storm. I guess I'll have to ask for some favours."
Silvia agreed quickly, and her expression was calm. She didn't show any panic at all, which made the people around her a little worried.
Hooligans like them just wandered around the city every day. When they saw young and beautiful girls, they would either cheat or steal from them. If not, they might even kidnap the girls and traffic them elsewhere.
They were committing a crime, but they tried to do it in the dark. They were not bold enough, especially when they were afraid of provoking someone they couldn't afford to offend.
The hooligan asked, "Are you really alone?"
"Yes, I'm alone, there's no one else. Hey, are you all sending me home together?" Silvia pointed to a direction casually. "My house is over there. It's not far away. We can walk back together."
"Little girl, what's your last name?" One of the thugs seemed to have met her somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where exactly.
Silvia answered calmly, "Don't you want to send me home? I'll tell you what my last name is when I get home. Oh no... I'll ask my dad to tell you. He likes to make new friends."
The thug who asked the question earlier suddenly leaned into the hooligan's ear and said, "Brother Billy, isn't this girl from Rovio?"
"How is it possible?" Hearing the word "Rovio", the hooligan became very shocked. D*mn it, if they provoked someone from Rovio, they would die an ugly death.
The man looked back at Silvia, and then he whispered in the hooligan's ear, "The news of the wedding of the daughter of Rovio has been going around these days. I saw a photo that day, but it was deleted before I could save it. I vaguely remember that the daughter of Rovio looked like her."
The hooligan had some doubts. "It's raining cats and dogs out here. How could the precious daughter of Rovio hang out alone in the streets in the middle of the night?"
"She must have argued with her family. Brother Billy, the direction she is pointing at..." The man gestured for the hooligan to take a look. In that direction, there was Secret Garden, the place where the ultra-rich families of Chatterton Town lived. "Brother Billy, there are pretty girls everywhere. I think we'd better not take this risk."
Although there were pretty girls everywhere, it was the first time the hooligan saw such a mesmerizing and beautiful girl like Silvia.
The hooligan had been cheating people for a long time. After all these years, it was rare for him to meet such a precious-looking girl. He knew that he could definitely sell her for a good price. Therefore, he was reluctant to let her go easily.
"Brother Billy, think about it. Is money more important than your life?" The man tried to persuade him softly, as he was worried that he would suffer as well.
"Little girl, what's your last name?" The hooligan did not want to give up easily. He wanted a clear answer. If she said some other name, he would take her immediately.
At that time, even if he caught the wrong person and someone from the Kyle family came looking for her, it was not his fault. She did not say that she was a member of the Kyle family.
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