Thank you.”
Gwen scoffed and toyed with her knife, all while staring at Denise. “I’m warning you: Don’t bully my friend, or I’ll kill you!”
She thought Denise’s face turned pale because Denise was scared of her with the Knife. Thus, she threatened Denise even more.
Denise pursed her lips and wanted to say something when she saw a woman in a red skiing suit take off her helmet from behind Gwen and Yannie walking toward her. “What happened?”
“Miss Hughes, that’s Brettley Morrison’s wife,” the myrmidon reminded Denise gently. “He’s a powerful man. Even in other cities, anyone who sees him has to pay their respects to him. He arrived here yesterday and that woman is his wife… We can’t afford to offend her.”
Denise bit her lip angrily. Those who bullied the weak because of their strong background knew when was the best to leave the fight. She knew she could not afford to engage in a night with Brettley’s wife at this moment.
She sneered and stared at Yannie and Gwen coldly. “Guess Lady Luck is on your side today!”
With that, she left with her entourage.
After just two steps, however, she remembered something and looked back at the knife in Gwen’s hand. “Your knife is a fake. My brother had the same one, and his knife is the authentic one. If you want to act tough, don’t try to fool others with a fake knife.”
Gwen raised her brow. “What nonsense are you talking about? Your brother’s knife is the fake one, not mine.”
“I’m one–hundred–percent sure your knife is a fake one.”
Denise narrowed her eyes as she looked at Gwen. Then, she looked at Bethan, who was approaching them from behind, and smiled sarcastically. “I’m only reminding you now because you are Mrs. Morrison’s friend. If your can be friends with someone like her, don’t bring a fake knife around to embarrass yourself.”
Finally, she did not forget to look at Yannie. “I’m going to let you go today, but remember this: don’t ever show up at my face anymore!”
After that, she left with her entourage.
Yannie stood still as she watched Denise leave, balling her fists tightly as she did.
Gwen rolled her eyes coldly and put away the army knife. She placed her hand on Yannie’s shoulder.
“How did you come across and provoke this type of people?”
Yannie pursed her lip.
“I…”
“What happened?”
Bethan stood beside Gwen and Yannie as she did not know what just happened.
“Who were those people? Why did you take out your knife?”
“Nothing.”
Gwen sneered and glanced in the direction Denise left. “Some ignorant people.”
How dare she say Luke’s knife was a fake?
Luke’s knife was given to him by Luke’s adoptive parents, and it was the only one in this world. Even if there was a fabricated version of this knife, the fabricated one should be the one that the woman’s brother had.
Yannie saw Gwen deliberately helping her to hide the fact that she just got bullied. She curled up her lips into a smile and looked at Bethan while diverting the topic. “Bethan, how’s your progress?”
Bethan paused and could not help and smiled. “I almost got the hang of it!”
Then, she put on her helmet. “I came here to show you girls!”
As she finished talking, she skied several meters away. Yannie was shocked to see it happening before her eyes.
After a while, she smiled embarrassingly with self–abasement. “Bethan is always so amazing.”
All of them started at the same starting line. Neither of them had the basics of skiing and the time they spent learning was about the same, yet Bethan had gotten the hang of it. She, on the other hand, could not even balance herself yet.
What a clumsy person she was. Maybe this was the difference between her and people like Bethan and Thomas. They were all talented people, a far cry from commoners like her. There was nothing special about her birth and talent. Everything about her was classed as normal.
Denise was right. She…was never from the same world as them.
“You’re quite amazing too.”
Gwen read Yannie’s mind when she saw Yannie’s pupils losing light and linked it to what happened.
Gwen sighed and extended her hand out to pat Yannie’s shoulder. “Don’t belittle yourself. If there’s nothing special about you, Bethan won’t be worried about you and came here with Brettley to see you. Thomas won’t also put all those efforts to bring you here. Don’t mind what that woman said.”
Yannie bit her lip and looked at Gwen. After that, she nodded vehemently.
The three of them spent time skiing in the ski resort until it was evening. When they left the ski resort at night, Bethan said she was very hungry. Yannie took the liberty and brought Bethan and Gwen to a specialty restaurant in Saigen City. In fact, she was not familiar with Saigen City at all. Thomas had brought her to that restaurant once.
When they entered the restaurant, Yannie requested to be seated in a private room. They started to place their order when they entered the room. After skiing for the whole afternoon, Bethan and Yannie were famished. As they entered the private room, they leaned on the chair tiringly. Bethan called Brettley while Yannie texted Thomas.
Gwen looked at them, slumped as she shook her head helplessly. “I’m going to the washroom.”
Coming out of the room, Gwen did not actually head to the washroom straight away. Instead, she went to the balcony at the end of the corridor upstairs. As she stood and felt the cold breeze, she took a few photos with her phone and made a social media post.
[I don’t miss you that much anymore today. Is this a good sign?] At the same time, in another private room in the restaurant… The man was eating with Kate Miller and a few other friends when his phone suddenly rang. He chatted with the person next to him while casually picking up the phone to have a look. It was a notification on his social media. It was the woman he followed the night before, and she had posted a few photos and a corny caption.
He ate and chatted while tapping into the woman’s photos. Coincidentally, he saw the words [Black Star] written on the railings behind the balcony.
He narrowed his eyes and looked down at the writing on his plate. It was the same name.
That meant that this woman was in the same Black Star restaurant as him.
From the angle of her photos, she was on the balcony at the end of the corridor upstairs.
The man turned off his screen.
He could not explain this feeling, but he had an inexplicable urge to look for her. He wanted to see who this woman, who posted corny captions online, was in real life. He wanted to get to know her.
However… He turned to look at Kate, who was next to him. If he was single, he would surely look for her without any hesitation, but he had a fiancee. His fiancee had done many things for him to wake from his coma, and he could not possibly let him down.
At the thought of that, the man took a deep breath and shelved his thoughts away. He continued chatting with his friends.
Later, by some prank from someone, the man had red wine spilled all over him. Kate pulled him up, furious yet finding it comical. “Go to the washroom and clean up,” she advised.
He nodded and followed Kate out of the door.
They were by the doors of the washroom, and Kate was about to follow him into the men’s washroom.
“It’s fine. I’ll go by myself.”
He smiled at her. “I’ve been awake for more than a month, and I can still care for myself. You better not go into the men’s washroom.”
Kate pursed her lips and thought for a while before nodding. “Be quick. I’ll wait for you outside.”
He smiled and caressed Kate’s head before turning and entering the washroom. Kate was standing by the door waiting while playing on her phone. At that moment, a woman came out of the women’s washroom, and she subconsciously looked up
Both women were taken aback the moment their eyes met.
After what seemed to be seconds later, Kate looked at the woman in front of her and blurted,”
G–Gwen Larson?”
Gwen was a little surprised, too.
She has previously seen Kate on the news. She knew that Kate was in this city, but she did not expect that Saigen City would be this small. She was there only for the second day, yet she somehow managed to stumble into Kate.
She smiled and looked at Kate. “That’s me, alright.”
“You…”
Kate’s eyes widened in shock. “What are you doing here?”
Was she…
Did Gwen overhear some news and she…
“I’m here on vacation.”
Although Gwen did not like Kate and was even apprehensive of her, she still offered her a genial smile. “Thomas brought Yannie to Saigen City to settle down. Bethan and I are here on vacation, so this is our first stop while also visiting Yannie as well.”
Then, she sized up Kate. “You’re much prettier than before.”
Kate previously had been dressing up as a guy, with short blonde hair, ear studs, nose piercings, and her go–to black outfit. She looked handsome and cool.
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