A Replacement Bride

Chapter 39

After a short moment of awkward silence, Katherine regained her composure. "Yes, I'm almost done looking," she replied casually.

Hearing her words, Joaquin chuckled. Just as he was about to speak, the elevator door opened and Katherine walked past him. Though before she could leave, he grabbed her and pulled her back, causing her to stagger. Frowning at him, she saw that his jaw was clenched and she couldn’t see his expression clearly as he was wearing a mask.

"What's wrong? Are you dissatisfied that I was only staring at you? Do you want me to do something to you in the elevator?" she asked while raising an eyebrow as she leaned closer to him.

At that moment, Joaquin felt as if his hand that was grabbing her arm was being burned. He quickly released her and took two steps back simultaneously.

Seeing that she had gotten the reaction she wanted, she beamed at him. "Looks like you are quite the innocent one. Well, I’ll be going then. See you next time."

As Joaquin released his grasp on her, she walked out of the elevator and waved at him while grinning. When Joaquin saw her expression, his eyes darkened while looking at her coldly.

Other than Beatrice, she is another person who can come close to me and not make me disgusted, he thought.

Zoning out while staring at Katherine's figure, Joaquin walked out of the elevator after some time. At that moment, Ben's call came. When Joaquin answered the call, he could hear him crying before he could speak. "My order has been canceled! You heard me, canceled! I might be the first person ever on the Red Web to get my order canceled!" he cried.

"Canceled?" Joaquin couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

"Yes! Yesterday, G asked me for the address number and I sent your Soulin Apartment address. Who knew that G would cancel my order and return my money?" Ben was completely in despair.

Not knowing what to say, Joaquin was silent. He felt that this matter was unusual because the Red Web had a rule where the task could not be canceled unless it couldn't be completed or it was more challenging than expected. It was hard for Joaquin not to think about it when Ben told him that he would be able to get the medicine in three days, but his order was canceled earlier in the morning today.

It was even more suspicious as the order was canceled after Ben gave the person his address.

arrived by the front door and went toward Northtride University by

talking to Ben for a while, Joaquin hung up the phone and looked at the road

…

of the top ten universities in Cechirus and almost in the top fifties in the worldwide rank. So, it was

at the entrance of the

catch the attention of others as she was low-profile and

you? You looked terrible today. Did you sleep well

a white dress looked dejected; it was visible that she was low-spirited. Listening to her friend's question, Beatrice managed to raise her head and look at her friend. As she looked at her friend, she saw a figure out of

Is that her?

thought, Beatrice pushed away the girl blocking her view to get a closer look.

Why is she here at Northtride University? Did she actually come back

walked toward the figure and faked an incident by

"Ah!"

was walking by the road and feeling the school's atmosphere when someone bumped into her. Looking at the girl who fell to the ground and scratched her own arm, she couldn't help but frown. After hesitating for a moment, she still decided to reach out and pulled

girl's beautiful

that when she was confused by how familiar Beatrice was, Beatrice was eyeing her

Katherine was the woman from last night as her face was distinguishable;

She swallowed hard and said, "I-I'm fine. I'm sorry that

a sigh of relief when she noticed that Beatrice did not intend to scam her.

the way?" Beatrice lowered her head as if she was shy. "I’m

her as she had never been here before. So,