Chapter 17
Jessie sneezed at an inappropriate time.
She awkwardly pulled out a tissue and wiped her nose.
The next second, the whole person was enveloped by a black coat.
“Mr. Foley was really good to his girlfriend. When do you two plan to get married?”
“Not yet-”
“Faster!”
Jessie looked at Alvaro dumbfounded.
Alvaro gently rubbed her hair, and Jessie instinctively moved back, but her body pressed even closer to Alvaro.
From an outsider’s perspective, the two of them appeared to be exceptionally ambiguous.
Claire Howell stood by, laughing uncontrollably, “You two are really a perfect match. I must come to drink at your wedding!”
The Claire in front of me was exactly the person Alvaro had mentioned
to me.
Jessie, seeing the situation, thought that this was also a part of Alvaro’s plan, so she had no choice but to brace herself and respond with a smile.
It was not until the party was coming to an end that Claire reluctantly bid her farewell.
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After seeing off Claire, Jessie finally let out a sigh of relief. She found a place to sit down and rubbed her sore ankles.
She had not worn high heels for a long time, let alone engaged in such intense and chatty conversations with people.
Tonight, she and Claire had almost no idle talk. For several hours, they were both wholeheartedly paving the way for Alvaro.
Just as she was attentively massaging her ankle, a person suddenly squatted in front of her.
Alvaro’s bony hands unabashedly reached out towards Jessie’s ankle.
Jessie subconsciously wanted to retract her foot.
“Don’t move.”
Alvaro carefully rubbed his palm on it a few times.
“The skin got broken later, I went to get a band–aid, you obediently sit here and wait for me.”
Alvaro coaxed her like he was coaxing a child, and Jessie was stunned by his actions. Somehow, she obediently nodded her head.
Not long after Alvaro left, two men came from behind her. They collapsed tiredly on the table and immediately began to complain with sighs and groans.
“Recently, the boss went crazy. He asked me to buy flowers again and to go to the auction to collect collectibles for him. Can you imagine? Today, the banquet hall, inside and out, from top to bottom, was all personally designed by him. He even drew a blueprint and brought it to me for careful preparation.”
“Isn’t this normal? Boss valued the Howell family’s project a lot.”
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“Hey, you never believed it when I called you silly before, but is the Boss working for the Howell family? For that project of the Howell family, besides collaborating with our Boss, who else can they collaborate with? The Boss has long been confident!”
“What is this, Boss?”
“Come here, fool, I’ll tell you quietly!”
Jessie lowered her gaze, and even her breathing became lighter.
“This was for Ms. Shepard, boss!”
From the first day we found out that Ms. Shepard was coming to our place, the Boss took charge of the two floors of the branch building. He personally oversaw the painting and renovation, from the inside out. Every inch of space was precious, and he directly transformed it into an exhibition hall.
“Ms. Shepard agreed to act with him that night. Boss was so excited that he couldn’t sleep, and he spent the whole night telling me about his past with Ms. Shepard. I was so tired that I could barely keep my eyes open. But then, guess what I saw when I looked up?”
Jessie’s heart suddenly froze.
Another person was even more curious.
“What did you see? Come on, tell me, don’t keep me in suspense!”
“Hehe, you wouldn’t believe it even if I told you, but I saw our boss, with tears in his eyes, secretly wiping them away! While wiping, he muttered the name of Ms. Shepard and said that he could finally stand proudly by her side!”
“Oh my! I didn’t expect.it, but our boss used to be a sentimental person!”
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“What are you saying!”
Alvaro suddenly appeared, but his gaze unnaturally glanced at the lowered head of Jessie.
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The two people across from them, upon catching the dangerous gaze he passed to them, only then realized that the person sitting in front of them was none other than Ms. Shepard, as they had mentioned.
Suddenly, he was so scared that his soul flew away, and he turned around and ran far away.
Alvaro was feeling a bit awkward and didn’t know what to say. Jessie remained silent, and he also didn’t know how much of what those two
little rascals said she had overheard.
Did you all hear it, being so close?
But if she heard everything, why was Jessie indifferent?
Alvaro was a little flustered, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
The next second, Jessie, however, gently opened her mouth.
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