Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Raymond Bowman’s expression remained unchanged as if he was only casually listening to their conversation.
However, what Valda Theller said next made Raymond Bowman’s expression change.
“I have a boyfriend.”
“What? You have a boyfriend?” Keith Sharp was shocked, but Camille Strickland hesitated slightly before saying somewhat ostentatiously, “Yes, Valda’s taken!”
Camille Strickland’s words were directed at Raymond Bowman. After all, Raymond Bowman had embarrassed her best friend and made her the laughing stock at school back then. Now, it felt like they had gained an advantage.
“But didn’t we agree on bringing a friend who doesn’t have a boyfriend…” Keith Sharp cast an uneasy glance at Raymond Bowman.
After all, it seemed to him that Raymond Bowman had deliberately set this up today to meet Valda Theller.
Before Camille Strickland could answer, Valda Theller said, “Sorry, Mr. Sharp. I took the initiative to ask Camille to bring me here because I wanted to see what kind of person her blind date was.”
Keith Sharp gave a wry smile. It did not matter to him, but CEO Raymond Bowman…
“You have a boyfriend?” Raymond Bowman asked Valda Theller as he stared at her.
Valda Theller met his eyes and said, “Yes, I have a boyfriend.”
“Impossible!” his thin lips said.
Camille Strickland was unhappy with that statement. “How could it be impossible? Valda has many pursuers. Raymond Bowman, you wouldn’t think that Valda has no pursuers, would you?”
Raymond Bowman suddenly got up, leaned over, and grabbed Valda Theller’s wrist. “Do you really have a boyfriend?”
The burning gaze was suffocatingly pressuring.
Valda Theller frowned. “Raymond Bowman, let go!”
“Tell me. Do you really have a boyfriend?” He clung to the question.
“I…” Valda Theller had just opened her mouth when a voice suddenly rang out.
“Are you in trouble?” The elegant voice sounded estranged, but it stunned Valda Theller. She looked up instantly and caught sight of a cold, delicate face. He had a straight nose bridge, sexy thin lips, and was dressed in a light gray suit. He looked just like an elegant gentleman, and those deep phoenix eyes were staring at her.
It was… the man she had only met twice!
Gifts Valda Theller thought she would never meet him again. After all, Emerald City was a big city. Imagine the odds of running into a stranger again in this city.
She never expected to meet him here again.
“What… are you doing here?” Valda Theller asked in surprise.
“I just finished talking to the owner here and saw you. Do you need my help?” he said pointedly.
“You’re already helping by coming over.” Valda Theller took a deep breath and looked at Raymond Bowman. “He’s my boyfriend.”
Raymond Bowman frowned and looked back and forth between Valda Theller and Brian. “He’s your boyfriend?”
“Yes, I’m Valda’s boyfriend. Is there a problem?” Brian said indifferently and raised his hand toward Raymond Bowman’s hand, which was grabbing Valda Theller’s wrist.
Raymond Bowman instantly felt a sudden pressure on his hand, which gave him a fit of pain.
“I don’t like people holding my girlfriend’s hand like this. You’d better let go now or…” Brian did not finish his speech, but it was enough to let people know what he meant. Raymond Bowman pressed his thin lips into a line. His instincts.
told him that he was no ordinary man.
After a moment’s silence, Raymond Bowman let go.
Brian also withdrew his hand.
Brian looked at Valda Theller and said, “Do you want to go now?”
“Huh? What?” She was still in a trance.
“I’ll get you out of here if you want, or I’ll pick you up when it’s over if you want to stay,” he said.
Valda Theller thought about it and turned around to say to Camille Strickland and Keith Sharp, “Excuse me. I think I’d better leave first today.”
“It’s… fine.” Keith Sharp with after a dry chuckle. He could not help glancing at Raymond Bowman out of the corners of his eyes.
Raymond Bowman was currently staring at Brian with a look of hostility.
‘Hostility?’ Keith Sharp froze. However, he noticed that the hostility on Raymond Bowman’s face had disappeared, and Raymond Bowman’s expression had returned to normal when he wanted to get a closer look.
Camille Strickland’s eyes widened. She was still in disbelief.
‘Gosh, is this the boyfriend Valda talked about?
‘Are fraudsters this classy now?
‘I would be fooled too if it were me!’
After Valda Theller left with him, Camille Strickland suddenly came to her senses and realized that she… she had let Valda leave with that fraudster!
‘Gosh! Is she going to be okay?’
Valda Theller got into Brian’s car and was still in a trance. “What a coincidence… Fancy meeting you here again. I was thinking we might never see each other again since we didn’t give each other our contact information.”
“I know your contact information,” he said and reported her phone number and address.
Valda Theller looked at him with surprise on her face. “How do you know?” “Your name is Valda Theller. You’re a professional comic artist with your own studio. Your parents died young…” The shock in her expression increased with every word he said.
B Gifts “You…”
“I’m sorry, I did some basic research on you. After all, there are some basic facts about you that I need to be aware of if we’re really going to date,” said Brian.
Valda Theller was silent. ‘So, he knows all my basic information? Is that why he could call out my name in front of Raymond Bowman?’
“Who the hell are you?” Valda Theller asked.
She recognized the logo of the car they were in. It was a Cayenne, which was not cheap. It was not something ordinary working-class people could afford.
He managed to find out all her basic information in only one day after she agreed to be his girlfriend.
She could tell he was no ordinary man.
“Brian,” he said.
“How do I spell that?”
“G-U-L-I-C-H-E-N,” he said.
“Sounds like a nice name,” she muttered.
Brian glanced at the person next to him. Judging from her expression, she must have never heard of the name.
“You know what? The surname Hart is one of the top ten surnames for male protagonists in romance novels,” she thought of a post she had seen before and said.
“Surnames for male protagonists?” He was slightly surprised.
“Yes, many writers like to give their male protagonists the surname Hart,” she said.
There was a little twinkle in his eye. ‘Male protagonists’ surname? But I’ll only be a supporting role in Grace’s story!
There was a sudden silence in the car, and a depressing atmosphere spread.
“Did I… say the wrong thing?” Valda Theller asked.
“No.” He gave a faint smile.