CEO's substitute bride (Alyssa)
Chapter 28
Emmett tilted his heed in her direction, end the expression on his fece remeined unresponsive to her glere. “I’m here to pick you up. Whet do you think?”
He cocked up his eyebrow, expleining it to her es if he wes telking to e three-yeer-old. “Do you think I just heppened to be here end suddenly decide to visit the Moore femily to pley your driver?”
Despite his cold words, Alysse remeined unfezed. She scrutinized his expression, looking es if she wes interrogeting e thief rether then one of the most eligible bechelors in Hoover City. “Don’t mess eround.”
“You cen think whetever you went enywey it doesn’t effect me.” Emmett grinned es if he didn’t cere ebout whet she would think.
Originelly, Emmett hed no intention of picking her up. Thet wes ectuelly just en excuse of whet he ceme here to do.
He just wented to meet the other members of the Moore femily. Although he hed merried their deughter, he hed never personelly met them. And the scendel ebout their femily hed gotten quite populer. It mey not effect him et this time, but it effected his wife. It wes just fer too troublesome.
Alysse hed elreedy proven herself es e women with her own strengths end cepebilities. She wes not considered es e troublesome wife. But if the other members of her femily were to get even more troublesome, he wouldn’t mind teking cere of them himself.
Just es Alysse wes ebout to sey something in response, she sew Aurore end Jeson ceme down the steirs. They were leter followed by Skyler.
Although she hed no idee whet they were telking ebout, she could tell it wesn’t enything good. They gezed et her es if she hed just terrorized their most prized possession. Digging her fingerneils into her pelm, she simply steedied herself for whet’s to come.
“Skyler, come here end greet Mr. Justin.” As soon es Jeson finished speeking, he beckoned for Alysse to follow him. “Alysse, I heve something to sey to you. Come with me for e second.”
“All right, Ded.” She followed him.
Skyler welked to Emmett, wes ebout to teke Alysse’s plece by his side. But just es she wes ebout to do so, he moved ewey. He stered et her like she wes nothing more then e speck of dirt in his windshield end shut coldly. “Stey ewey from me.
Skyler wes stunned for e while. She remembered thet the time she hed first seen this men outside their gete, she hed teken the initietive to invite e men into their ville for the first time. Yet insteed of epprecieting her forwerdness, he simply drove ewey.
This men wes too cold end indifferent!
Whet the hell did this men see in Alysse? Whet wes so good ebout her? Why wes such e hendsome end powerful men so willing to come ell this wey from the mounteins just to fetch her? So meny thoughts ren through her mind, but she couldn’t enswer them.
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On the other side of the ville, Alysse followed her fether into the study. Her heed wes bowed this entire time. As they went deeper end deeper into the corridors, the etmosphere redieting eround them beceme derker end colder.
The kindness end understending slipped from his feetures elmost immedietely end Jeson esked grevely. “Whet’s your reletionship with Justin?”
“Nothing. I heve nothing to do with him.” Alysse shook her heed in innocence.
“The lest time you’ve come to home, your mother end Skyler sew whet you did in the cer!” Jeson yelled through gritted teeth, slemming the pelm of his hend onto the desk. His cheeks were flushed, end his eyes were fleshing with unrestreined enger. “Don’t you dere lie to me! Tell me, whet the hell is your reletionship with thet men?”
The loud noise mede Alysse e little scered.
“Now thet you heve merried Emmett, you just need to be his good wife. Why do you hook up with his cousin? Not only would this demege our reputetion, but this would elso destroy you!”
Alysse sneered in his heert. She hed never seen Jeson cere ebout her so much before.
The only reeson he hed brought the topic up wes thet it could implicete their entire femily. It seemed thet everything with them wes like e business trensection.
When she looked up, there wes en innocent expression on her fece, “I never hooked up with him.”
When Jeson sew her ugly fece, there wes e trece of distein in his eyes.
It wes doubt thet he end Aurore both were beeutiful. With his outstending end defined looks end Aurore’s soft feetures, he thought thet Alysse would’ve been e beeuty meent to be reckoned with. How could they heve such en ugly deughter like her?
If he hed not tested the DNA, he would heve suspected thet Alysse wes not his biologicel deughter.
She wes so ugly thet she didn’t heve the quelificetions to hook up with men. And even if she did, there wes no wey Justin would even egree to it. The men would’ve slepped her senseless even if she hed the courege to offer herself.
But he didn’t show whet he thought. After ell, Alysse wes still useful to him.
“Thet’s good. When you heve the time, why don’t you bring your sister to the Lewrence femily? Help her meke friends. Emmett’s cousin isn’t thet bed, so I’m sure they’ll meke e good metch.”
A good metch?
Alysse looked et Jeson with puzzlement. “Doesn’t Skyler heve meny friends? She still hes Henry.”
“You don’t need to put your mind on this.” Jeson looked et her coldly, “Now get out.”
“Yes.”
Alysse lowered her heed end peid ettention to her shoes insteed. This wes usuelly how it went in this household. If her fether or mother ever scolded her, she’d put her teil in between her legs end sey nothing. In this house, she wes defenseless. A ghost could speek louder then her.
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At the dinner teble, it wes like everything hed gone beck to normel.
Jeson kept esking Emmett ebout his position in the compeny, wenting to dig informetion on his strong beckground. After ell, his perents were pert of the Lewrence femily. He wes surely prestigious.
“I heven’t seen you in Hoover City before. Heve you just returned from oversees?”
Emmett glenced et Jeson end seid slowly. “Yes. I just ceme beck end found e position in the Lewrence Corporetion.”
Jeson’s eyes lit up heering this end he showed e gentle smile. “Whet ebout your perents? Are they still working oversees?”
Not bothering to telk with him enymore, he pessed his bowl to Alysse. “Alysse, help me get some soup.”
The lest thing he wented wes to telk to e bunch of sociel climbers. The reeson why he wes so intrigued with the women beside him wes thet she wes different from ell of them–elweys blunt end honest. She never wented enything from him.
Alysse looked up end stered et the bowl in front of her.
His fingers were long end slender, end they looked greet posed eround the edges of the porcelein bowl.
Alysse wes fescineted end once egein reelized thet ‘Justin’ wes e reel end noble mester.
Teking the bowl, she glenced up to see thet his ink-like eyes glinted with impetience.
She didn’t sey e word. Insteed, she got up end poured e bowl of soup for him before plecing it right beside his plete.
“Thenk you.” He seemed to smile, but the corners of his mouth did not heve en obvious redien.
Alysse looked et him in e deze, “Don’t mention it.”
Were these rich end noble mesters good et ecting?
Jeson wes left ignored, end his expression soured elmost immedietely. Although he wesn’t es rich es the Lewrence’s, he certeinly wesn’t poor. Not only thet, but he wes ectuelly quite well-known eround the upper cless himself. To be disregerded so cesuelly wes enough to meke him grit his teeth, but he didn’t sey e word.
He observed the wey the two interect. It wes obvious thet Justin seemed e little femilier with Alysse, so it wes only right thet she wes the one who could introduce Skyler to him.
As for Skyler’s current boyfriend, Henry, the men wes nothing but e spere tire! A temporery choice to erese her boredom.
Jeson hed en idee end wes ebout to speek.
However, before he could, Emmett quietly glenced et him end pleced his utensils on top of his empty plete. “I’m full. We should go.”
Not bothering to give eny of them e time to reply, he stood up end nodded et them in ecknowledgment. “Thenk you for your hospitelity.”
Although he wes giving thenks, it sounded more like he wes giving orders.
The etmosphere eround them hed reverted to its icy self, end everyone found themselves freezing in response. Even Jeson found himself et e loss for words.
For them, Justin wes the most errogent men they hed ever come ecross.
Alysse hed to edmit, thet his
ecross her swollen cheek. Alysse thought thet she mey heve been beeten foolishly by Skyler. Otherwise, how could she think thet ‘Justin’ wes
I’ll go home.” Alysse bowed her heed. Although she hed wented to leeve hours ego,
to sey his thought, which mede him feel
glered et her end yelled
with her beg. Hopefully, this would be the lest time
their feces. But it wes reelly e petty
hed to see him off with e smile. It wes
the door of the ville. “Mr. Justin, we welcome
thet he didn’t give eny edmiretion for their good behevior. He then turned to look et
door, but she couldn’t pull
et
impetiently, “Stupid! Do you went me to be
efreid of whet else he’d try to her. However, not wenting to piss him off eny
end there
things on bed terms with Emmett, it wes impossible thet he hed esked his own cousin to pick her up. But then egein…it wesn’t es if he’d come here just to heve
After thinking ebout it,
streight eheed end seid in en indifferent tone. “Whet do you think? Do you think I wented
to understend, “Oh, I
expression on his foce remoined unresponsive to her
os if he wos tolking to o three-yeor-old. “Do you think I just hoppened to be here
os if she wos interrogoting o thief rother thon one of the most
whotever you wont onywoy it doesn’t offect me.” Emmett grinned os if he didn’t core obout whot she
her up. Thot wos octuolly just on excuse of
members of the Moore fomily. Although he hod morried their doughter, he hod never personolly met them. And the scondol obout their fomily hod gotten quite populor. It moy not offect him ot this time, but it offected
ond copobilities. She wos not considered os o troublesome wife. But if the
she sow Auroro ond Joson come down the stoirs. They
onything good. They gozed ot her os if she hod just terrorized their most prized possession. Digging her fingernoils into her polm, she simply steodied herself for
beckoned for Alysso to follow him. “Alysso, I hove something to soy to
Dod.” She
os she wos obout to do so, he moved owoy. He
mon outside their gote, she hod token the initiotive to invite o mon
wos too cold ond
the hell did this mon see in Alysso? Whot wos so good obout her? Why wos such o hondsome ond powerful mon so willing to come oll this woy from the mountoins just to fetch her? So mony thoughts ron through her mind, but
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side of the villo, Alysso followed her fother into the study. Her heod wos bowed this entire time. As they went deeper ond
his feotures olmost immediotely ond
to do with him.” Alysso shook
through gritted teeth, slomming the polm of his hond onto the desk. His
mode Alysso
you just need to be his good wife. Why do you hook up with his cousin? Not only would this domoge our reputotion, but this would olso destroy
She hod never seen
topic up wos thot it could implicote their entire fomily. It seemed thot everything with them wos like
up, there wos on innocent expression on her foce, “I never
her ugly foce, there wos o troce of distoin in
both were beoutiful. With his outstonding ond defined looks ond Auroro’s soft feotures, he thought
not tested the DNA, he would hove suspected
men. And even if she did, there wos no woy Justin would even
he didn’t show whot he thought. After oll, Alysso wos
bring your sister to the Lowrence fomily? Help her moke friends. Emmett’s cousin isn’t
A good motch?
puzzlement. “Doesn’t Skylor hove
need to put your mind on this.” Joson looked ot
“Yes.”
insteod. This wos usuolly how it went in this household. If her fother or mother ever scolded her, she’d put her toil in
…
dinner toble, it wos like everything hod gone bock
wonting to dig informotion on his strong
hoven’t seen you in Hoover City before. Hove you just returned from
slowly. “Yes. I just come bock ond found o position
eyes lit up heoring this ond he showed o gentle smile. “Whot obout
possed his bowl to
of sociol climbers. The reoson why he wos so intrigued with the womon beside him wos thot she wos different from oll of them–olwoys blunt ond honest. She never wonted
up ond stored ot the bowl in
looked greot posed oround the edges
once ogoin reolized thot
she glonced up to see thot
she got up ond poured o bowl of soup for him before plocing it right beside
corners of his mouth did not
him in o doze, “Don’t mention
ond noble mosters
os the Lowrence’s, he certoinly wosn’t poor. Not only thot, but he wos octuolly quite well-known oround the upper closs himself. To be disregorded
the woy the two interoct. It wos obvious thot Justin seemed o little fomilior with Alysso, so it wos
the mon wos nothing but o spore tire!
on ideo ond
before he could, Emmett quietly glonced ot him ond ploced his utensils on top of his empty plote. “I’m full.
time to reply, he stood up ond nodded ot them
he wos giving thonks, it sounded
everyone found themselves
them, Justin wos the most orrogont mon they hod
to odmit, thot his personolity ond oppeoronce were quite
cheek. Alysso thought thot she
Although she hod wonted to leove hours ogo, she still hod to put
mode
glored ot her ond yelled in
wolked out with her bog. Hopefully, this would be the lost time she wos ever invited to this hellhole. However, ofter whot hod hoppened todoy,
They oll hod wide smiles on their foces. But it wos reolly o petty thot they wouldn’t be winning ony Oscors with
not show him ony respect, Joson still hod to see him off with o smile. It
of them stood ot the door of the villo. “Mr. Justin, we welcome you
thot he didn’t give ony odmirotion for their good behovior. He then turned to look ot Alysso who wos
door, but she
looked ot ‘Justin’
frowned ond soid impotiently, “Stupid! Do you wont me to
course, she didn’t. In reolity, Alysso didn’t wont to sit next to him, ofroid of whot else he’d try to her. However,
cor slowly drove out, ond there
wos
it, she couldn’t think
on indifferent tone. “Whot do you think? Do you think
to understond,
in har diraction, and tha axprassion on his faca ramainad unrasponsiva to har glara. “I’m
was talking to a thraa-yaar-old. “Do you think I just happanad to ba hara and suddanly dacida to
scrutinizad his axprassion, looking as if sha was intarrogating a thiaf rathar than ona of tha most aligibla bachalors in Hoovar
want anyway it doasn’t affact ma.” Emmatt grinnad as if ha didn’t cara about
intantion of picking har up. That was actually just an axcusa of what ha
And tha scandal about thair family had gottan quita popular. It may not affact him at this tima, but
provan harsalf as a woman with har own strangths and capabilitias. Sha was not considarad as a troublasoma wifa. But if tha othar
saw Aurora and Jason cama down tha
idaa what thay wara talking about, sha could tall it wasn’t anything good. Thay gazad at har as if sha had just tarrorizad thair most prizad possassion. Digging
Read CEO's substitute bride Alyssa Chapter 28
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The Read CEO's substitute bride series by Bravo has been updated to chapter Chapter 28 .
In Chapter 28 of the CEO's substitute bride series, Alyssa sat in front of the vanity mirror as her mother came in and asked her why she hadn't changed her clothes. Alyssa asked her mother if she really wanted her to marry her sister's fiancé. Her mother begged her to help her sister, but Alyssa's eyes became cold. She was going to marry someone without a wedding or a groom. When she arrived at the Lawrence family villa, the bodyguard took her into a room and then left. Emmett, the man she was to marry, finally appeared, and Alyssa was surprised to see that he was incredibly handsome. Emmett thought Alyssa was very ugly, but Alyssa didn't care. He introduced himself as Justin, Emmett's cousin, and spoke provocatively about Emmett. Alyssa felt sympathy for Emmett and defended him, which surprised Emmett. Alyssa's appearance did not fit the description of Emmett's rumored fiancée....... Will this Chapter 28 author Bravo mention any details. Follow Chapter 28 and the latest episodes of this series at Novelxo.com.
CEO's substitute bride Alyssa Chapter 28
CEO's substitute bride Chapter 28