Chapter 129



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Before Alayna answered, Kevin had arrived. Standing at 6’6″ tall. His model body figure brought out the best in the white suit he wore.

“Why are you here?” As expected, the first person Kevin spoke to was Alayna.

“Why are you asking, are you saying I can’t be here because your family owns the place?”

“I don’t mean that.” Kevin smiled awkwardly, “Someone told me that we had come to an end and that we had come to a farewell. Not too long ago…”

“Sorry, I keep meaning what I said last night.” Alayna rolled her eyes. Then suddenly she waved at Kevin’s back in a sweet tone, “Honey, I’m here.”

A blond-haired, blue-eyed man approached them. He was the youngest of tonight’s guests. His broad, muscular western man’s figure made him look a size older than Kevin.

Alayna took his arm affectionately as he arrived. “Let me introduce you to my boyfriend, Spencer.”

After greeting Spencer, Hayden quickly pushed Joseph away from the scene.

Alayna and Kevin would never admit defeat. Their pride was their priority, the way they fought with each other was a norm for the people around them. But this time, Hayden thought Alayna had gone too far. Kevin looked terrible.

After Hayden and Joseph left, Kevin’s expression worsened. He said angrily, “Alayna, if I’m not mistaken, we broke up last night, have you found a new boyfriend yet?”

“Is there a problem?” Alayna glared at him, “After all, I got a new boyfriend after we broke up, but someone likes to find a new girlfriend before they break up.”

“I told you she was a friend’s sister.”

“Your friend must have a lot of sisters then.”

“…”.

On the other side, Hayden was drinking some red wine with a guest while grabbing Joseph’s arm. After a while, his face flushed. Then he leaned on Joseph’s arm.

Music was playing in the lounge and a guest asked Hayden to dance.

Hayden accepted and entered the dance floor.

Hayden was wearing a burgundy red dress. Her dress swirled as she danced and looked stunning under the ballroom lights. It was so striking that people began to stop and watch Hayden dance.

Kevin approached Joseph with a glass of wine in his hand.

They clinked glasses as the music played. As they watched Hayden dance, Kevin insulted, “Aren’t you jealous that men are looking at her?”

“Shouldn’t they be jealous?”. Joseph calmed down and took a sip from the wine glass, “After all, all they can do is watch. She belongs to me.”

“It’s good to be positive. I used to be like that.” Kevin shrugged, “But as I get older, I can’t be so positive anymore.”

Joseph looked at Kevin and corrected him, “You weren’t being positive. You didn’t care about anything in the past.”

Kevin would change girlfriends so fast that sometimes he wouldn’t even remember his ex-girlfriend’s name after a day, that wasn’t being positive. It meant that nothing mattered to him, having girlfriends was just an act of psychological necessity.

“Are you saying I care now?”.

“You care, but you acted like you didn’t care.” Joseph looked at a point from afar, “If you keep pretending you don’t like her, she won’t be yours.”

“What do you mean?” Kevin frowned.

“Take a look.”

Kevin turned and looked over to where Joseph was looking. He saw Alayna and her new boyfriend standing on the other side of the dance floor. They were standing very close to each other. Alayna was holding his arm with one hand and giving him fruit with the other.

Kevin immediately went crazy.

Alayna wanted to find someone new to make him jealous. That’s fine, but this time she went too far.

Kevin gulped down his wine in anger. Then he put down the wine glass and left the scene.

As a song ended, another man approached Hayden to ask her to another dance. Hayden shook her head and turned the man down, saying she had a headache after drinking. She then quickly crossed the dance floor and returned next to Joseph.

“I thought I saw Kevin here a moment ago.” Hayden took a sip of water from a glass Joseph held out to him.

“He just left.”

Hayden nodded and then sighed, “How soon do you think they’ll be back together?”

“Before the party’s over.” Joseph replied in a nonchalant tone.

“What?” Hayden raised her head in surprise, “Why?”.

Joseph looked in a direction across the dance floor. Hayden also looked in the direction Joseph had pointed. He saw Kevin pull Alayna away from her new boyfriend and head for the nearest VIP room. The atmosphere was filled with ambiguity and passion.

“What did I miss?” Hayden’s eyes went wide.

Joseph hugged Hayden and briefly explained, “You missed the show, with a prodigal return.”

The party ended around ten o’clock that night. Other than Alayna and Kevin, all the other guests were staying at the hotel. Therefore, the aftermath of the party was much easier. There wasn’t much to do, so Hayden headed to his room after instructing the staff to clean up the place.

Hayden’s schedule filled up with the itinerary of guests throughout the week.

Joseph was with her the first two days, but disappeared on the third.

“Mr. Beckham had to take care of a few things. The guest will be under your concern from now on, Miss Downey.”

When Hayden asked about Joseph’s whereabouts, Magnus was evasive and suspicious.

“What things?” Hayden asked.

Magnus coughed and answered carefully, “I don’t know everything about Mr. Beckham, it was a private matter.”

Hayden frowned. Joseph didn’t seem like a person who didn’t know how to prioritize. He didn’t usually put important guests aside to attend to his private business, unless it was urgent.

Joseph didn’t return until after midnight.

Hayden was asleep, but woke up when Joseph opened the door. She sat up in bed with puppy-dog eyes and asked Joseph, “Did you just get back? What time is it?”

Joseph sat up in bed and hugged Hayden. “Go back to sleep. It’s only midnight.”

Hayden hugged Joseph around the waist again and rested his head on his chest like a tender kitten.

“Sleep.” Joseph stroked Hayden’s back., his eyes filled with tenderness.

Hayden closed his eyes as he heard the sound of running water in the bathroom. But suddenly, he heard the notification tone of the phone, he took it from the bedside table with half-opened eyes and read the message. “[Don’t forget tomorrow, I’ll meet you at the airport].”

Hayden frowned. He thought it was a message sent by mistake, but realized he had the wrong phone when he saw the sender’s name.

In the sender’s column was Violet’s name.

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