She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Chapter 45

045 A 30 Grand Piece

Scarlett's

POV

"So, you are saying that I bought a knockoff, is that it?"

The handsome stranger does not let Lilith go, but looks up at the group of mean girls with a nod. Suddenly all his moves are elegant in my eyes, a pleasure to watch for some reason.

I think Lilith feels the same because she is looking up at him with a smitten slash stunned look from his chest.

"I-"The mean girls all look at the one standing in the middle, Olivia Keen, Ava's best friend. She hems and haws, "I mean..."

Eyes darting to Ava, she's too nervous and she needs instructions from her master.

"I'm sorry, who are we talking to?" Ava clears her throat and steps up, her tone polite and her voice pleasent. It's the voice she uses when she wants to impress. Guess it's universal that the stranger is considered handsome. Or Ava just evaluated the tailed suits on him wel The stranger cocks his eyebrows with an amused look as if pleasantly surprised.

I'm nervous again. If Ava wants to come off as charming, she can. It takes time to see her true color. Or, in Sebastian's case - takes forever.

"Does my name have anything to do with my accused crime?"

never seen that happening to Ava. She likes to

I offended you in any way," Ava's bitter smile is just perfect. A poor little thing that

her if I didn't know

nervous eyes between Ava and the stranger, unconscious of my

"Relax," Granny s

back gently, whispering, "just

Granny seems so confident

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curves her

with the proud face when the answer

question back at Olivia: "I paid 30 grand for this piece, and you thought it smart to humiliate me with a claim of it

are close to six figures, not to

look. But not her minions. They exchange a shocked look

I

of the Times, but that was

laughable!" Olivia picks up her condescending demeanor, sneering at the stranger coldly, "Next time you buy a knockoff, count the zeros right of

shoots a smirk at Ava, and Ava lowers her head modestly. The stranger shoots a glance

looks up with a worried look, also shocked: "You

cold, dangerous look when they burst into laughter, but Lilith's words put an utterly surprised look

up? They said