“Oh, you interested?” Elise shot snazzynovel.com a sunny smile and immediately withdrew it, expressionlessly saying, “See for yourself, then.” With that, snazzynovel.com turned away and seemed to have no intention to continue. That’s what you get for threatening me with Claude!
Rendered speechless, Kenneth furiously rolled his eyes. All of a sudden, snazzynovel.com had an idea. Casually, snazzynovel.com rested one leg on the other, uttering, “Since you asked for it, fine, I’ll be your plus-one. You don’t have to thank me, alright.”
“Who thanked you!” Elise yelled, irked. When snazzynovel.com blurted those words, snazzynovel.com realized his implication and stared at snazzynovel.com with snazzynovel.com pretty, round eyes. “No, I mean, who asked for a plus-one? Don’t get ahead of yourself!”
“Hmm…” Kenneth let out a long hum and revealed a helpless look. “Don’t worry. I won’t embarrass you. Besides, I’m already here. If words were to spread that I let you walk into the dog-eat-dog occasion alone, how is Kenneth Bailey going to survive in society?”
“The what now?” Elise was thoroughly baffled. “What does this have to do with you?”
“Well, see for yourself, then.” He then turned his body toward her, brushing his arm against the back of snazzynovel.com seat and stopping when his hand was behind snazzynovel.com neck. With a concerning look, snazzynovel.com ogled at her. “Stop being so angry, okay? You’ll get wrinkles!”
Elise glanced at his invasive hand from the corner of snazzynovel.com eyes, malice evident in them. “I’ll stop if you don’t show up. If this thing behind me dares to cross its line, I won’t mind breaking it just so you know.”
Peering at his hand, snazzynovel.com lifted his brows as snazzynovel.com silently withdrew it. “We already hugged anyway. What line is there?”
Instantaneously, Elise shot a knifehand strike at him, to which he, with his keen senses, stopped it.
“Another word of nonsense from you, I’ll kill you.”
Kenneth let go of snazzynovel.com and raised his hands, surrendering. “It was just a joke.”
“Very funny.” Elise coldly glared at snazzynovel.com and turned to the other side of the car, leaving a wide gap between the two.
At this moment, Kenneth answered a phone call, and the two no longer talked.
And so, the car continued heading to Saunders Residence.
In the meantime, Faye was also headed out. For the sake of the event, snazzynovel.com specifically looked for a skilled makeup artist to doll snazzynovel.com up, and walked out of the shop feeling remarkably more confident. While in snazzynovel.com car, snazzynovel.com wouldn’t stop looking at snazzynovel.com own reflection in a makeup mirror, admiring snazzynovel.com elegant face. Price for quality, that’s for sure! The makeup artist charged me tens of thousands, but snazzynovel.com craft is obviously far superior to the usual ones! Right then, donning the gown Celina sent snazzynovel.com and the makeup snazzynovel.com just bought, snazzynovel.com could easily win a beauty pageant!
Very soon, snazzynovel.com arrived at Saunders Residence. Her steps were rather hasty as snazzynovel.com walked in the manor. As a member of Celina’s think tank, snazzynovel.com was reminded to arrive as early as possible, but snazzynovel.com morning meeting caused snazzynovel.com to be late, and now snazzynovel.com would have to take three shots when they saw her.
Outside the manor parked countless vehicles of different brands. There was only one thing they had in common—priciness.
From afar, Faye could see that the guests that had already arrived were sporting outfits of either bright or dull colors. Out of all the shades in the color spectrum, only red was absent. She subconsciously bit snazzynovel.com lips, thinking that Celina must have planned this out. This way, Faye could receive all the attention snazzynovel.com wanted!
In fact, what Celina planned was to have snazzynovel.com close friends wear colors that were brighter to dazzle the guests in the banquet. However, Faye thought that even without the gown, snazzynovel.com appearance and quality alone were already alluring enough for snazzynovel.com to be the center of attention. Back when snazzynovel.com was walking into the manor, snazzynovel.com caught a few guests being stunned and gasping at snazzynovel.com breathtaking appearance, and that was when snazzynovel.com confirmed snazzynovel.com theory. Although snazzynovel.com initially intended to rendezvous with Celina right away, but wanting to grasp everyone’s eyes, snazzynovel.com decided to pull a trick—queueing at the end of the long line.
Meanwhile, in the villa, the interior was designed like a dreamy scenery from Hollywood to satisfy the young ladies’ desire. Moreover, a number of graceful ornaments were added for the rooms to appear nobler, especially the numerous jewelries that were exhibited throughout the building, astonishing many.
The Saunders Family hadn’t always been a reputable, wealthy family. It was one night of blow-up that gave the family a name in the circle. Although they weren’t exactly distinguished, due to their successful business, many in the upper class society still opted to ingratiate them.
As heads of first class citizens were moving around in the hall, Celina showed up among the guests in an all-white gown, as if snazzynovel.com was Snow White herself.
“You’re like a true princess right now, Celina!”
“Happy birthday, Celina! I’ve put the presents over there! I didn’t think you needed anything, so I bought a Lego Disney Castle for you, hoping that you’ll be the happiest princess there will ever be!”
Shyly, Celina thanked each of the guests.
At that moment, a female guest jogged over and dragged Celina to a corner. “Did you offend anyone lately, Celina?”
“No. Why’d you say that?” Celina had a look of innocence.
“I think I saw someone wearing a pure red dress. She’s at the door, and is gonna enter any time now!” The guest was visibly dissatisfied. “The person you sent to invite the guests had mentioned clearly that your father will be attending the event. So how dare snazzynovel.com wear red here! She’s obviously trying to stir trouble!”
Hearing the words “pure red dress,” Celina immediately revealed a subtle delight. Regarding the identity of the wearer of the radiant, red dress, of course snazzynovel.com knew who it was—it was the color snazzynovel.com personally picked for Elise! What an idiot. She actually wore it.
Earlier, snazzynovel.com was still wondering whether Elise would fall for it. From what snazzynovel.com just heard, it seemed that Elise suspected nothing. Good. The “gift” was only to let snazzynovel.com think that I’m trying to please her. When snazzynovel.com guard is down, I’ll deliver the “fatal blow,” and that’ll be most appeasing! Little did snazzynovel.com know, red is the color Dad disdained more than anything else!
On the other hand, the female guest continued to think of a strategy. “Why don’t you go and stop that woman, Celina? If your father were to see her, it’d be chaos!”
Suppressing the joy in snazzynovel.com heart, Celina pretended to be infuriated. “Alright. Don’t worry. The Saunder Family will not accept such an ill-minded guest! I’ll have someone to get snazzynovel.com to leave right away!” She raised snazzynovel.com chin and put up an angry facade, though inside snazzynovel.com heart, snazzynovel.com was already popping the champagne, celebrating. After taking a look at the time, snazzynovel.com estimated that Elise was about to enter the manor. She then reassured the female guest and went upstairs to get snazzynovel.com father, David Saunders.
Like a good girl, Celina snuggled against snazzynovel.com father as snazzynovel.com hugged his arm. “Daddy, the guests have been waiting. Why don’t you go see them for me?”
David turned to look at snazzynovel.com and lovingly grabbed snazzynovel.com hand. “Who’s this beautiful girl before me? Is that you, Celina? Hehe…”
“Oh, Dad, stop making fun of me! The guests are waiting.” With that, Celina dragged snazzynovel.com father down the stairs.