Can't Win Me Back

As a result of Winston’s grave concern and meddling, Alyssa’s blind dating schedule had been expedited.

She was putting on makeup in the bathroom while listening to Sean reading her schedule on the iPad from the outside.

“Lunch at 11:30 am with Mr. Manning ofHutton Group; tea break at 1:30 pm with the eldest son of Sandhurst Inc.’s Mr. Coppola; attend a privately booked musical at 3:30 pm with the second son of Zoleva Corp’s Mr. Cruz…”

She was taken ab ack upon hearing that because that meant one blind date every two hours. Her schedule was more hectic than the president of a nation!

Soon, she emerged from the bathroom after her makeup session. Sean burst into laughter upon seeing her.”Ms. Alyssa, you went pretty hard.”

She wore a huge curly wig and drew some freckles on her face. A patch of black stuff was underneath her nose, like a mustache. She rested an arm against the doorframe and made a gesture of picking her nose.

“Is this ‘going hard’? I was thinking ofdrawing some scars on my face.”She grinned to reveal the dark paint on her front teeth. Waving at Sean, she joked,”Sir, come on in! I’m sure you’ll have a fun night …”

As her head secretary, Sean always carried himself in a professional manner. However, he lost it and doubled over with laughter. Alyssa was indeed the most cheeky of them all.

Feeling naughty, she took a self ie and sent it to the group chat with her brothers, which caused quite a huge stir.

Jonah wrote,”Um, who is this?”

Alyssa replied, “Darling, try guessing?”

Axel texted,”ROFL!Lyse, you’re awesome! ”

Silas cursed, “Fuck!You scared me witless!I was so close to peein g myself!”

Liam chimed in, “You could have picked a better character to cosplay. Why would you be Weird barbie when you could be a stereotypical Barbie, right?” Content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Axel suggested, “How about cosplaying Bonnie? I can be your Clyde! XOXO”

Axel followed up with a GIF image of two hugging bears. To that, Silas replied with a kicking GIF image. The two brothers, who didn’t have the chance to meet up, were embroiled in a merry online battle.

Alyssa asked,”So, I need the opinion of you straight guys. What’s my blind dating success rate in this costume?”

Silas answered,”o.0000000%!”

Jonah was a little more polite.”Beauty is only skin deep. Those who know you will

be attracted to your inner charm.”

Lia m opined, “I’m not good with faces. I think pretty girls look the same, but an interesting personality is one of a kind. Those bastards will fall for your personality and talent.”

Axel wrote,”Lyse, you know I’m more into legs than face.”

He sent a shrugging emoji followed by the text, saying, “Silas, I expected better of a civil servant. How could you judge a book by its cover?”

Silas fired back, “Fuck you. That’s not for you to say.”

Alyssa scrolled through the conversation history and cackled. Silas was an honest man who always ended up being the brunt of the joke. She texted, “Wish me good luck. On my way to meet the first unlucky dude.”

Jonah replied, “May the Lord bless you and the man you are meeting.”

Silas commented,”Lyse, with that wig on your head, you should consider dating any guy who falls for you. It’s 80% true love.

“It shows that he’s just like us—judgingby inner beauty!”

Alyssa chuckled and wrote, “Haha, whoever falls for me today will receive a free medical card from Taylor Hospital. He needs a checkup for glaucoma or cataracts! 11

At the same time, Sean’s phone was buzzing like crazy. He stole a look when Alyssa wasn’t noticing and saw texts from her four brothers. The content was more or less the same.

“Keep an eye on Lyse. Call us if anythinggoes wrong.”

He replied, “Don’t worry. I will protect Ms. Alyssa from any danger.”

They replied, “We are more worried about the guys she’s meeting, not her!”

Sean smirked at the texts and thought,”That’s siblings for you.”

…

The miserable blind dating started. Alyssa was an efficient woman who decided to get it over with as soon as possible since there was no way out of it.

To her shock, the scions she met with did not flinch at her horrible appearance. Instead, they spinelessly tolerated her presence and chatted away calmly.