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 well.

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?”

question a gentle rejection. I have never seen that happening to Ava. She likes to earn

bitter smile is just perfect. A poor little thing that is wronged but remains polite, with a tad of sorrow in her

even believe her if I

Ava and the stranger, unconscious of my nail cutting deep into my

“Relax,” Granny s

back gently,

seems so confident in the situation, “Do

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her lips happily:

why are you so confident?! And what’s with the proud face when the answer

for this piece, and

My heart sinks.

their ordinary designs are close to

celebrity role well, only making a slightly surprised look. But not her minions. They

I

the cover of the Times, but that was it. I sincerely hope that’s not where

laughable!” Olivia picks up her condescending demeanor, sneering at the stranger coldly, “Next time you buy a knockoff, count the zeros right of the original! It’s 300 THOUSAND, my love, and certainly something

Ava, and Ava lowers her head modestly. The

looks up with a worried look, also shocked: “You gave

his eyes nailed on the mean girls with a cold, dangerous look when they burst into laughter, but Lilith’s words put an utterly surprised

up? They

lightly, and he lets her go this time, “I’m really grateful for your help, both times. I’m sorry I got you

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