Chapter 20 He Likes The Little Surprise
Her voice was loud enough to draw the attention of others around.
Estella walked away with her head lowered to implement Nancy's order.
Edison was sitting there like an emperor in flesh, with a beautiful, delicate-featured, and demure woman in his arms. They made a perfect match together.
It was a large couch but became their exclusive booth because people didn't dare get closer.
Everyone kept a distance purposefully.
As CEO of the Yates Group, Edison Yates, twenty-five years old though, was quite sophisticated in doing business, and infamously cruel. Whoever related with him, no matter what standing they were, had to respect him somewhat.
At the party, all the models and actresses Nancy had invited were a bunch of third-tier or even the last tiers. Such girls all wanted to catch up with Edison if given a chance. Too bad, he brought a date and had a tangled history with Nancy. Even if they desperately wanted to hit on Edison, they didn't have that courage.
"Mr. Yates breaking up with Nancy Shandy through public announcement, the news has been a hit on Twitter these days. Now he brings no gift but a pretty date to the party. Hard to say he's not gonna embarrass Nancy."
"How he's sitting is obviously an offense."
"Who's that woman? Have you seen her before?"
"No."
...
Gwenyth Lovelace was an ordinary woman, an outsider of this social bubble. It was normal that no one knew who she was.
She had to pretend peaceful under all those gazes of enmities.
But such an event made her very uncomfortable.
Good thing was that she needn't do anything but sit next to Edison Yates as a quiet bimbo.
"How long will we stay here?" she asked in whispers.
Since it was Nancy's birthday party, perhaps she shall wait until Nancy cut the birthday cake.
"Getting bored already?"
Edison laid down his eyes on her and pull her closer to him with the arm on her shoulders.
She lost her balance to the pull and buried her face in his chest, where she smelt slight tobacco.
He was a smoker but didn't stink. Instead, she could breathe in hints of peppermint.
She didn't get to choose whether she could leave, for Edison was in charge of this. But with nothing to do, she had to sit through all the measuring eyes over her from head to toe, feeling like a monkey entertaining tourists in a cage.
"I'm bored."
She replied, summoning up her courage.
Edison brought her here just to embarrass Nancy, but Nancy, not even feeling awkward, was enjoying chats with her friends.
Only Edison was sitting here, isolated, lost all the limelight.
"Well, now that you're bored, let's bail."
The man stood up with his arm on Gwenyth's shoulders still and helped her stand up from the couch.
As she stood steady, his hand ran down and pat her on the butt.
This sudden move pushed her a step forward and brought a hot flush to her cheeks.
"..."
She took a look back at him, and he squinted his eyes into a smile, reflecting the shimmering lights like a universe. He seemed in a good mood.
"Your body is quite soft."
Every part was soft and touched well.
He reached out a hand quickly to put around her waist, leading her out.
"Eddie!"
Seeing him leaving, Nancy was too panicked to care about her image. She trotted, with both hands lifting the frills of her dress, her feet in a pair of stilettos, to get in the way of Eddison and Gwenyth.
"You haven't tasted the cake yet."
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