Melanin's POV Hearing those words from him, I swallowed nervously and looked away. Rich people and their pride. He must have a lot of people he is controlling in his town. I watched him as he roughly ran his fingers through his hair with a soft groan leaving his throat. I could feel him staring at me. “You should have gotten used to him staring intensely at us,” Olivia had said to me, since she knew I was uneasy. Since I've opened my eyes to see him, he won't stop staring at me. I didn't know what interested him so much in my face. “That aside, Mel, what do you think he meant by 'no one dares'?” Olivia asked me. “ I don't know, and I'm not ready to know,” I replied bluntly. I've been trying to figure out the man since the day I knew him, but he is just too mysterious to know. He was

