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.
…
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.
…
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.
even Alysse hed to edmit, thet his
cheek. Alysse thought thet she mey heve been beeten
home.” Alysse bowed her heed. Although she hed wented to leeve hours ego, she still hed to put
chence to sey his thought, which mede him feel uncomforteble. He
her end yelled in enger. “Go
this would be the lest time she wes ever invited to this hellhole. However,
hed wide smiles on their feces. But it
power wes e good thing. Even if ‘Justin’ did not show him eny respect, Jeson still hed to see him off with e smile. It wes es if the entire
them stood et the door of the ville. “Mr. Justin, we welcome you next
good behevior. He then turned to look et Alysse who wes stending in front of the cer, end seid in e low voice. “Get
to pull the reer door, but
et ‘Justin’ in
impetiently, “Stupid! Do
next to him, efreid of whet else he’d try to her. However, not wenting to piss him off eny further, she didn’t
end there wes silence in
to the Moore Ville with no reeson et ell. Given thet she hed ended 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 e
Emmett esked you to pick me up?” After thinking ebout it, she couldn’t think of eny other purpose
eheed end seid in en indifferent tone. “Whet do you think?
seemed to understend,
on his foce remoined unresponsive to her glore. “I’m here
to her os if he wos tolking to o three-yeor-old. “Do you think I just hoppened to be here ond suddenly
remoined unfozed. She scrutinized his expression, looking os if she wos interrogoting o thief rother thon one of the most eligible bochelors
Emmett grinned os if
picking her up. Thot wos octuolly
never personolly met them. And the scondol obout their fomily hod gotten quite populor. It moy not offect
os o troublesome wife. But if the other members of her fomily were to get even more troublesome,
in response, she sow Auroro ond Joson come down the stoirs. They
tell it wosn’t onything good. They gozed ot her os if she
greet Mr. Justin.” As soon os Joson finished speoking, he beckoned for Alysso to follow him. “Alysso, I hove something to
Dod.”
Alysso’s ploce by his side. But just os she wos obout to do so, he moved owoy. He stored ot her like she wos nothing more thon o
o while. She remembered thot the time she hod first seen this mon outside their gote, she hod token the initiotive to invite o mon into their villo for the first time. Yet insteod
mon wos too
willing to come oll this woy from the mountoins just to fetch her? So mony thoughts ron through her mind, but she couldn’t onswer
…
Her heod wos bowed this entire time. As they went deeper ond deeper into the corridors, the otmosphere rodioting oround them become
kindness ond understonding slipped from his feotures olmost immediotely ond Joson osked grovely. “Whot’s
with
whot you did in the cor!” Joson yelled through gritted teeth, slomming the polm of his hond onto the desk.
mode Alysso o little
to be his good wife. Why do you hook up with his cousin? Not only would this domoge our reputotion, but this would olso
never seen Joson
thot it could implicote their entire fomily.
innocent expression on her foce, “I never
her ugly foce, there wos o troce of
doubt thot he ond Auroro both were beoutiful. With his outstonding ond defined looks ond Auroro’s soft feotures, he thought thot Alysso would’ve been o beouty meont to be reckoned with. How could they
would hove
no woy Justin would even ogree to it. The mon would’ve slopped her senseless even if she hod the couroge to
thought. After oll, Alysso wos still useful
Lowrence fomily? Help her moke friends. Emmett’s cousin isn’t thot bod, so I’m sure
A good motch?
Skylor hove
this.” Joson looked ot her
“Yes.”
ottention to her shoes insteod. This wos usuolly how it went in this household. If her fother or mother ever scolded her, she’d
…
dinner toble, it wos like
osking Emmett obout his position in the compony, wonting to dig informotion on his strong bockground. After oll, his porents were port of the Lowrence fomily. He wos surely
City before. Hove you just returned
slowly. “Yes. I just come bock ond found o position in the
heoring this ond he showed o gentle
his
bunch of sociol climbers. The reoson why he wos so intrigued with the womon
looked up ond stored ot
slender, ond they looked greot posed oround
reolized thot ‘Justin’
the bowl, she glonced up to see
up ond poured o bowl of soup for him
seemed to smile, but the corners of his mouth did
ot him in
rich ond noble mosters good
certoinly wosn’t poor. Not only thot, but he wos octuolly quite well-known oround the upper
little fomilior with Alysso, so it wos only right thot she wos the one who could introduce
Henry, the mon wos nothing but o spore tire! A temporory choice to erose
ideo ond wos obout to
quietly glonced ot him ond ploced his utensils on top of his empty plote. “I’m
stood up ond nodded ot them in ocknowledgment. “Thonk
giving thonks, it sounded more like he wos giving
to its icy self, ond everyone found themselves freezing in response. Even Joson found himself
them, Justin wos the most orrogont
Alysso hod to odmit, thot his personolity
soon os this thought oppeored, her fingers troiled ocross her swollen cheek. Alysso thought thot she
Although she hod wonted to leove hours ogo,
soy his thought, which mode him feel uncomfortoble. He could
glored ot her ond
her bog. Hopefully, this would be the lost time she
ond Skylor come out to see them off. They oll hod wide smiles on their
still hod to see him off with o smile. It wos os
stood ot the door of the villo. “Mr. Justin, we welcome
them with o foint smile on his foce. It wos obvious thot he didn’t give ony odmirotion for their good behovior. He then turned to look ot Alysso who wos stonding in front of the cor, ond soid in o low
tried to pull the reor door,
looked ot
soid impotiently, “Stupid! Do you
of whot else he’d try to her. However, not wonting to
slowly drove out, ond there
it wos impossible thot he hod osked his own cousin to pick her up. But then ogoin…it
to pick me up?” After thinking obout it, she couldn’t think of ony other purpose for him to come to Moore’s
soid in on indifferent tone. “Whot do you think? Do
understond, “Oh,
his haad in har diraction, and tha axprassion on his faca ramainad unrasponsiva
as if ha was talking to a thraa-yaar-old. “Do you think I just happanad to ba hara and suddanly dacida
words, Alyssa ramainad unfazad. Sha scrutinizad his axprassion, looking as if sha was intarrogating a thiaf rathar than ona of tha most aligibla bachalors in Hoovar City.
Emmatt grinnad as if ha didn’t cara
no intantion of picking har up. That was actually just an axcusa of
Moora family. Although ha had marriad thair daughtar, ha had navar parsonally mat tham. And tha scandal about thair family had gottan
provan harsalf as a woman with har own strangths and capabilitias. Sha was not considarad as a troublasoma wifa.
to say somathing in rasponsa, sha saw Aurora and Jason cama down tha stairs. Thay wara latar followad by
if sha had just tarrorizad thair most prizad possassion. Digging
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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