Billionaire's Queen

Twenty-Six

Dara and Chaerin made an entrance to the gala hall. It seems like all the people who were already there stopped to look at her. The men are all gawking at her with lust and the women are giving her dirty looks and some are jealousy. But she didn't care as she roamed her eyes around looking for that special someone. She found him and their eyes locked for a while as they discreetly smile at each other.

Jiyong was listening to a man next to him when the man suddenly stopped in mid-sentence to look at something or someone. He followed his gaze and there he found out who and what made him stopped. He noticed everyone had seemed to stop whatever they have been doing and stare at his gorgeous wife. He waited for her to find him as it seems that is what she's been doing. Their eyes locked and with understanding, they smiled at each other. He saw someone who started to walk towards her and he realized who it was and his anger started to rise. Then the man next to him started saying unpleasant remarks. He wanted to go over to his wife and shield her from all these nasty people but he held himself as he saw her discreetly telling him not to. That she is fine and that she can handle it.

Jaejoong immediately approaches her as soon as he saw her. His eyes are everywhere in her body as he lusts for her. This made Dara uncomfortable but she tolerated it. "Dara thank God you made it," he said as he spread out his arms to hug her and he was about to kiss her on the lips but Dara discreetly turned her head to the side and he ended up kissing her cheek. All these were seen by angry Jiyong.

The MC for the evening started to make an announcement and asked everyone to take their seat. "We're sitting over at table ten, " Jaejoong started to say.

Chaerin immediately said. "But according to their assigned sitting Miss Dara is to be seated in table one."

"What?! That must be a mistake because I have RSVP'd all of our names together." Jaejoong said feeling irritated.

"It's ok Jae, I will just go there. There must be a reason why." Dara calmly said.

Jiyong watched as his wife started to look for her seat while being guided by Chaerin. He saw them going to the front table on the left-hand side and he grinned to himself.

Dara reached the table and was greeted by a short, bald middle-aged man who stood up gawking at her. "Hello! You can have a seat next to mine my lady," he said trying to reach for her hand which Chaerin blocked.

"Sorry, sir but her seat is right over here where it has her assigned name on it. See?" Chaerin firmly said as she lifted the card with Dara's name. Dara gave her a mouthed silent thank you and she smiled at her. The middle-aged man was not happy about it.

"Huh?! Do you think you can stay away from me Miss Park? Well...think again. I am not done with you yet. I will make you mine and you will not be able to get away from me by the end of this night, " the middle-aged man smirked and thought to himself.

Dara sat on her assigned seat and Chaerin left to take her seat all the way in the back of the hall. Dara is seating next to a lady on her left whose aura is very snobbish and was giving her a smeared sigh. Next to her is the pervert middle-aged man who keeps eyeing her full of malicious lust. Next to the pervert is a young good looking man who appears to be very shy but not shy enough to keep staring at her. On her right is an old man who appears to be very polite as he smiled at her. Next to him is probably his daughter who has full-blown plastic surgery on her face that is covered with thick makeup. She dresses slutty and she can't seem to keep her hands to herself. Her eyes widened in surprise when she saw her husband seated next to that slutty girl. Their eyes locked and Dara felt relieved at least she knows that she and her husband are seating at the same table.

Their eyes are the ones that are communicating with each other. She was able to somehow managed to tell him that she is very happy that they are seating at the same table. Jiyong noticed the relief in his wife's face as he assured her not to worry. He is aware that she doesn't like attending this kind of event for the same reason and attention that she's been getting from the people which he completely understands. He doesn't like the fact that all these perverts are undressing her with their minds and thinking malicious lust on his wife. He's been observing everyone in the hall and half of these people are either perverts and jealous people. Just by the way they are looking at his wife. This did not sit well with him, especially seeing how uncomfortable she is.

The event started with thanking everyone for coming and then they have introduced the band who will be playing while dinner, is being served.

"So. I heard that you are still single Mr. Kwon." the flirtatious lady asked Jiyong while she had her fingers doing a little walk on his thigh.

"Do you mind keeping your hands to yourself? I didn't attend this event for you." he firmly said in a deep cold voice. Everyone on the table looked their way and the plastic lady felt furiously embarrassed as her face and eyes turned red. She got up without a word stomping her feet like a little child.

Dara creases her brows in approval of her husband's remarks. She discreetly tightened her lips together as she chuckled and Jiyong smirked.

The lady on the left side of Dara keeps on elbowing her sides for no reason. Dara didn't pay much attention to it at first for she thought it was just an accident. But she had done it three times already and each time it's getting harder. She decided to move her chair a bit away from her so that it won't happen again. Jiyong was just observing the situation quietly but he's getting really irritated at that lady.

After dinner, the servers offered the guests some tea or coffee. The lady on Dara's left side ordered tea. She places the teabag in the cup with hot water and lets it sit. She pretended to lift it but drops her fingers a little so that the cup will slip and the hot water spilled on Dara's thigh.

Dara made an alarming jump in her seat as she felt the hot water. Luckily it wasn't that seemingly hot that could have burned her. But her dress is now wet on her thigh area. The lady pretended to apologize to her but smirking to herself, at the same time. This didn't go unnoticed to Jiyong as he is worried about his wife.

"Omg! I am so sorry. I didn't do it on purpose I swear!" the lady exclaimed loudly.

Dara tried to assure her that she is fine and that she did not get burned. She picked up the table cloth napkin and wipes her thigh and dress.  "It's okay. You didn't do any damage."

"There's a blow dryer in the women's bathroom you can dry it over there if you like." the lady added.

Dara smiled at her and said, "I will do just that. Thank you." She got up and saw Jiyong's anxious face and she smiled at him.

A few minutes after Dara left the middle-aged man discretely got up too to follow her. While Jiyong was called out on the stage to speak about the sponsorship for the fashion week that will be held in the Jaragon Kingdom.

Dara was able to dry up her dress and is about to go back to the hall when she felt someone put a handkerchief on her mouth and nose. It's got something very strong in it that made her feel dizzy and she lost consciousness in a matter of seconds.