Chapter 288 – My Accidental Bride Is a Fashion Circle Queen Novel

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Claude.N leaned over and returned to measuring things on the workbench. With his chin, he pointed towards the doorway, “Since this is your decision, you can show yourself out.”

He was a master designer after all, so his temper was a little strange. However, Emma felt her original judgment of Claude.N had been too kind. She had to reevaluate him.

Legs weren’t merely his main concept, they were a fetish!

Claude.N thought Eric would adjust his attitude and ask him to renegotiate. But, Eric did not have that intention at all.

He protected Emma as they turned around to leave. However, at this time, Eustace appeared at Claude.N’s doorway with a model from Star King. The two parties looked at each other as Eustace let out a laugh, “Could it be that our never-failing Mr. Roberts has actually come across a failure?”

Eric looked at Eustace indifferently. It seemed he held no regard for Eustace whatsoever.

“Do you want me to speak a few good words to Claude.N on behalf of Emma? To be honest…over the past two days, we have been quite close,” Eustace said arrogantly as he shook the drops of rain off his body, “It’s raining in Paris and pretty cold outside.”

No one knew better than Eric what Eustace had been getting up to in the past 2 days.

It couldn’t be forgotten that Luke had arrived in France the day before…

“I don’t think you should speak until you win a game of cards against me,” Eric laughed as he placed his arm around Emma’s shoulder and prepared to leave. However, Eustace held them back once again.

“Would this be considered as a loss for Kaleidoscope against Star King? After all…Emma did not secure an advertisement with Claude.N.”

In actual fact, Emma felt Eric was acting a little out of the ordinary. A moment ago, when Claude.N mentioned his conditions, Eric did not even consider negotiating and rejected him straight out.

On the surface, his actions seemed reasonable. But, this was not how the never-failing Eric handled matters.

He would never do something he wasn’t confident about.

“This seems to be Star King’s goal; isn’t winning against me and securing Claude.N your biggest glory?” Eric’s l*ps suddenly curved upwards.

Emma glanced at him and knew he was about to make a move. As expected…

…Eric calmly continued, “To be honest, Claude.N has already been eliminated from our options. Luckily, they gave us a reason to reject them.”

Eustace burst into laughter assuming that Eric was trying to protect his pride. However, Eric pulled out his phone and opened an email, “Fearles was this year’s first place winner at The World Design Awards, whereas, Claude.N came in fifth place. Fearles is owned by Claude.N’s ex-wife and she is a woman with strong morals, unlike ‘someone’ who only knows how to stare at our Emma’s legs.”

“If you are interested in Claude.N, I’ll leave it for you…”

After speaking, Eric led Emma out of Claude.N’s studio, whilst Eustace was left bewildered with a pale exp**ssion.

Emma noticed Eustace’s lifeless face and could help but ask Eric, “What was all that about? How did you manage to do so much behind my back? You obviously never left my side.”

“I do not need to leave the house to discuss a contract. It can easily be done over the computer.”

“Then, what’s the deal with Fearles?”

Eric started the car as he smiled at the curious Emma, “Fletcher got a list of tourist names from New York to Paris. On that list, we found Eustace. So, I instructed Luke to fly to Paris and keep an eye on him. That’s when we discovered he had contacted Claude.N in private.”

“During our visit to Director Coque’s manor, I briefly mentioned that you were a model. But, I never expected he would recommend you to Fearles.”

“So, I received a phone call from Fearles last night. Even though we already had an appointment with Claude.N, she said she was willing to wait.”

“If Claude.N had not been so unreasonable, perhaps, you would have let me work with them, right? But, either way, you always had a backup plan.”

“Yep,” Eric nodded. “I also had to consider Eustace.”

It seemed the slap they had just given Eustace had pierced straight through to his heart.

“I think right now, not only is Eustace furious, but so is Claude.N.”

“From the moment he stared at your legs, I already decided to give up on Claude.N,” Eric said in a cold tone, “And after he stared at you for the tenth time, I was so tempted to rip his eyes out!”

“Manager Roberts, you sure are fierce,” Emma sighed.

Eric did not say anything. Of course, the entire situation also involved luck, but those in the industry without luck never stood a chance at fame, no matter what their background was.

“Let’s go meet with Fearles now!”

Emma never imagined that this trip to France would result in a twist like this. Everything was so surreal! Perhaps, it was a result of Eric handling the entire matter on his own. Emma felt Eric did too much behind the scenes, making her feel like everything wasn’t very realistic.

Eric noticed Emma was suddenly silent, so he asked, “What are you thinking about?”

“I thought I could keep up with your way of thinking, but only now do I realize, I am still far off.”

“If you want to become an honored guest of Fearles’, what you need to do is present an even higher level of professionalism,” Eric explained to Emma seriously. “Quite a lot has happened in the last two days, but I did not intentionally hide it all from you. Everything happened too quickly, so I simply didn’t want to take your emotions on a rollercoaster ride.”

“The higher one stands, the more enemies they will have. If you don’t have time to deal with something, then you will need to learn to let it go.”

Emma closed her eyes feeling a little complex. It’s not that she felt she wasn’t smart enough, it’s just, her husband was much too powerful. What would she do without him?

“You’ve almost doted me to the point where I can’t be independent.”

Emma leaned against Eric’s shoulder as they headed for their appointment with Fearles.

This French woman who had almost made a vow to be a nun before she decided to pursue design was extremely friendly. As soon as she saw Emma, she gave her a hug, “Welcome. I really like the storyline of ‘Stupid’, Coque shared it with me. I hope your husband doesn’t mind.”

Emma looked at Eric confusedly and he responded with a helpless smile.

“Don’t worry, he only shared a small snippet with me because he wanted my help in designing a costume.”

Of course, Eric knew. After all, it was a breach of contract and involved a leak of business confidentiality. However, he had no intention to use the design of a world-class master designer; the budget would be too expensive!

“That’s why I have a brave suggestion: I would like to use your wife as inspiration for the costume of the actress that has a one-night-stand with the athlete. I also want to film a commercial with her so we can achieve a win-win situation.”

“The film will have a higher possibility of entering the Western markets and my design will become known in Asia. What do you think Mr. Roberts?”

Eric presented a poised smiled, looking extremely charming, “Lucky Fearles isn’t in the entertainment industry, or else, I would have another competitor.”

“Mr. Roberts sure knows the right thing to say.”

Like this, Emma and Eric’s work ended up having a direct connection.

After a joyous dinner, the couple returned to the hotel. Eric explained the story of ‘Stupid’ to Emma and, she too, found it exceptionally entertaining, “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a great script from someone in the domestic market…I wonder which screenwriter wrote this.”

“You don’t know him,” Eric replied straightforwardly.

Emma had her assumptions, but she didn’t question him any further…

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