Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 159

But Lindey wasn't buying it. She gave him a little swat. "Oh, please. You think you can use Rea to get out of this? Not happening."

""Hey, Lindey." I called out.

At the sound of my voice, Lindey froze. She turned around, her eyes lighting up when she saw me, but the second she realized I had probably caught the whole intimate scene with her and Matthew, her face went bright red.

She quickly dropped Matthew's hand and made her way over to me. "Rea, you're here! Have you eaten? I'll have Isabel-"

"I've already eaten," I lied, even though my stomach was growling. It suddenly hit me that I hadn't asked Hayden if he'd eaten either.

"Why didn't you have your dinner here?" Lindey asked, sounding a little annoyed.

She was acting like Hayden wasn't even there, not a single word or glance his way. But I knew Lindey better than that-this was her very subtle way of showing her disapproval.

Still, Lindey had too much class to be totally rude. After what felt like an eternity of her ignoring him, she finally turned her attention to Hayden, "You must be Rea's friend?"

I squeezed Hayden's arm lightly, giving him the signal to step in. He caught on and greeted her politely. Hi, Mrs. Johnston."

"Since you're Rea's friend, you're not a stranger. Come in, don't just stand

well, and I made my way over, handing him

said with a warm smile, accepting the gift like it was the best thing he'd seen all day.

Hayden greeted,

"Take

gift early doesn't mean you're off the hook for the actual party. Matthew and I still expect you there." She totally read

a smile, I nodded.

clear-if Lindey wanted me at the party, she'd have to accept that Hayden and I came as

split second, but she recovered quickly. "That's great. There'll be plenty of

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Network?

saying, 'Hayden doesn't belong here, and the party's gonna be full of rich, single guys, so

successful Hayden was, he'd always be just another worker-totally

about to step in and save him. I wanted

completely unbothered, as usual. "I'd love to meet some of Seavora's finest. I'm planning to

smirk. He was too good

fail. It was like trying