Marie was standing there looking like she was about to bulldoze her way in.

Luca stood not far away. She hesitated whether or not to enter through this entrance. After all, Marie knew her and the two of them already had a conflict.

It was not that she was afraid of Marie and the people around her. Luca just did not want issues to arise.

Unfortunately, the truth was that even if she did not want to cause trouble, trouble would come knocking on her door.

Marie had already seen Luca when she turned around. She ignored the security guard and roared at Luca, "Stop!"

Luca did not have to turn around to know that she was yelling at her.

She turned around helplessly and saw that Marie was walking toward her. The men behind her also walked over.

The four of them were enough to surround her.

Luca glanced at them and asked with a blank expression, "Yes?"

Marie lowered her gaze and glanced at the bags she was holding in her hands. She recognized that the brands inside were expensive, so she asked, "Are you going to the Rayne family's home?"

"What about it?" Luca asked.

"Just nice. I'm going to the Rayne family's home too. Lead the way." Marie knew that the security guard refused to let her in because Wanda had reminded the property management not to let her in.

Regardless, she was determined to go in.

She asked these men to help her move back into the Rayne family's home. A helpless and soft woman like Wanda would compromise when she saw these men.

Marie had planned everything, but unexpectedly, she was stopped by security.

"The security won't let you in, so how can I bring you in?" Luca felt uncomfortable. Among the men surrounding her, two of them were looking at her with malicious eyes.

She hated being looked at like that.

"It'll be fine as long as you tell them that I'm your friend. Why are you asking so many questions?" Marie asked impatiently.

Luca smiled mockingly and glanced at the three men. "So, I'll bring you in and you'll bring them in?" "These are my friends. Aunt Wanda told me that she's changed her mind and decided to accept me." Marie hurriedly made up a lie.

It was a lie that Luca did not believe.

Luca knew that Marie was not liked by Wanda, so she said, "Aunt Wanda? Ms. Rayne doesn't admit that you're her niece. If you bring these friends of yours into the building, it'll scare the other residents. Ms. Rayne, stop making a fool of yourself. You're not allowed to enter this building."

"What do you know?" Marie stared at her.

One of the men said, "What?! Your aunt doesn't want you? Why did you bring us here, then?!"

Marie glanced at the man. He was there as her support but he was now sabotaging her. She said, "Don't listen to this woman's nonsense."

"Yes, don't listen to my nonsense because I don't know her at all. If you're done, please get out of the way." Luca did not want to get into a row with Marie in front of the building.

Marie blocked her way with her hands. "You're going to the Rayne family's home, right? Then everything you have here is for the Rayne family?"

Luca glanced at the things in her hands. She felt a little helpless because she knew that Marie was now eyeing the things she bought after accepting the fact that she could not step into the building.

"Get out of the way." Luca's tone was cold.

She was disappointed by Marie's greed. She thought that Marie would have reformed in prison but now it seemed that the years she spent inside were all in vain.

If Marie was willing to turn over a new leaf after being released from prison, she would be able to find a good job. Unfortunately...

"I brought these friends over, and I can't leave empty-handed. Since you prepared these for the Rayne family and I'm a member of the family as well, you can give these to me. I won't make a fuss and insist on going in, lest I disturb you from having a blast." Marie acted like riff-raff as she gave her companions a look.

Luca's gifts were all expensive items. Although they could not make use of most of them, they could get some money after they returned the items or resold them.

"If you dare to take these gifts from my hands, I'm afraid that all of you will have to go to the police station," Luca warned them.

The three men laughed and did not care about what Luca said.

Luca smiled indifferently seeing that they were not threatened by her at all.

She knew she did not have to do anything to get rid of this group of people.

The security guard at the security booth noticed that Luca was surrounded by them. This was the person the manager had specially told him about. He heard that she had a relationship with Luke. When he saw this scene, he immediately used the walkie-talkie to tell the other security guards about the situation.

After a while, a few security guards walked up to Luca's side and asked, "Ms. Craw, are these people bothering you?"

Luca gave the men with Marie a cold look and said, "They're not harassing me, but they want to rob me."

"Robbery? Do you need me to call the police?" one of the security guards asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, one of the men on Marie's side knew that something was wrong and said quickly, "This is all a misunderstanding. We saw that this lady was having a hard time carrying these two bags by herself so we wanted to help. Isn't that right?" copyrighted © content.

"Yes, yes." The others quickly agreed.

Marie, who was on the side, glared at Luca viciously. She was jealous that Luca was being protected by these security guards despite not being a resident here.

These security guards were usually snobbish!

She looked at her so-called friends and felt like she had lost her dignity seeing Luca being protected by the security guards.

'They're just security guards who aren't professionally trained. Why are they so afraid? Bunch of good- for-nothings!'

As she continued to glare at Luca, Marie suddenly thought of a person she had always envied— Bianca.

The way Luca was being protected by the security guards at this moment made her seem like an innocent bunny. It reminded her of Bianca...

She thought of how Luca was protected by Luke and approved by those in the Rayne family. Marie shared the same surname but she was forced to live on the street. Her dissatisfaction slowly rose.

Luca listened to the men's words and did not react. She said, "I'll leave this matter to you guys. I'll be heading in now.”

"Okay, have a good day," the security manager said.

Luca left with the two bags still in her hands.

After they watched her walk into the building, the security guards chased Marie away. "Leave! You've been blacklisted by this building. If the Rayne family doesn't give any instructions, you'll not be allowed to enter.”

"I'm friends with the other residents!" Marie did not believe that they would not let her in.

"That won't work either. You're on the blacklist. Even if other residents prove that you're friends with them, you still won't be allowed in. If you cause any trouble again, don't blame us for going to the police for this matter.