CEO's substitute bride (Alyssa)

Alyssa raised her head in surprise, gazing at “Justin” before glancing back at the phone in her hand. “You bought this?”

“Nice try. Cousin bought it for you.” Emmett rolled his eyes and began to eat.

Alyssa sneered at his words. “As if I’d accept it if it was from you.”

Alyssa took the phone out of the small box. A small smile appeared on her lips as she analyzed it carefully.

As Emmett was the one who had bought it for her, she accepted it. After all, they were already married, so there wasn’t anything wrong with giving and receiving gifts.

Alyssa noticed that there was a SIM card next to her phone. It was the number she had used before.

Once she had everything installed, she immediately dialed Hazel’s number.

The phone only rang once before it was answered.

“Alyssa.” Hazel’s worried voice sounded from the other end of the line. There weren’t any background noises from her end, so her words were loud and clear. “Are you okay? You weren’t picking up the phone earlier and I thought…”

“I’m fine. Are you filming already?” Alyssa tilted her head. She remembered Hazel saying that she’d be returning to the production team.

“After everything you’ve been through, you’d think I’d just let go and start filming? I’m heading out right now! We should meet.” There were rustling sounds from the back, making it sound as if she was packing.

Alyssa also wanted to talk to Hazel about last night, so she quickly agreed. “Okay, I’m eating. I’ll go out in a minute…”

“No need. I’ll go there instead. See you.” Hazel interrupted her and hung up the phone.

Once Hazel hung up, Alyssa placed her phone on the table and gazed up at the man eating slowly in front of her.

“Justin” had always acted arrogant and rash, yet, his actions proved to be the complete opposite. In fact, he was very calm and cautious. Even the way he was drinking his porridge was eloquent.

The more she observed him more, the more she spotted how contrasting his actions were to his words.

“About last night…” She paused before saying, “Thank you.”

“Thanks for what?” Emmett looked up at her, his pitch-black eyes flickering with an imperceptible smile. “Thank me for pushing you away at the critical moment?”

Alyssa understood his words and blushed. “Can’t you talk decently for once?”

gratitude she had had

his hands while saying, “You said thanks so casually. Your gratitude

for a while and leaned back against her seat. “How about you let me treat you to

offer, and she slowly

Okay. Let’s go to the clubhouse I brought you to last time.” Emmett said

That place?

she remembered correctly, that was the most exclusive clubhouse in Hoover City. For those in the middle class, it would take them years just to get a reservation in that place, and the prices there… Not to

he doing

head and said straightforwardly. “It won’t do. I can’t afford

in surprise.

Alyssa felt

the next moment, “Niclaus” took out a black card from his pockets and handed it to her. “Cousin gave this to me. You can use it. I’m sure

one glance from the card, and she could already tell that it must’ve had a

said, unable to hide the envy in

mansion. Yet…that didn’t seem to be true, given his frequent travels. He even allowed his cousin to live in

the other hand, she and Skylar acted as if they were

you are willing to try, he might

word

Alyssa flushed.

arrogant

card from his hand, she lowered her head and continued to take

to treat “Justin” to a meal, right? It was like greeting a brother-in-law.

fine with treating him herself at a more low-key area, but since he purposely wanted to give

up the stairs to deal with

already arrived, she was still

strange that

up and told her.

Right now, she could only go downstairs to

foot in the living room, Hazel had already rushed to hug her. She gripped her around the waist

smiled. “I’m fine. How

you’ve seen…” Hazel quickly explained what had happened. The video that the blogger posted had gone viral that

terrified that the video would discredit her, so she immediately asked Hazel to find a couple of group photos and post them on Weibo. “It’s just to prove that I wasn’t in that club during

you, but you wouldn’t answer. That’s when I called Xavier. He’s the one who

Alyssa immediately understood what was going on. It was likely that this wasn’t a coincidence. Someone must’ve known her friendship with Hazel and used that to their advantage,