Chapter 12 You Were So Cool


    Riley stared at Euan and Lydia as she smiled bitterly. She quickly changed her expression from sour to


    indifferent before someone else could see it.


    Hendrix took a ss of wine from a waiter’s tray. He observed Riley’s reaction from afar.


    He was shocked and confused to see how indifferent she was even after seeing her husband hugging


    another woman.


    But his confusion onlysted for a few seconds. When he looked up again, he saw Riley storming


    towards Euan!


    Hendrix put one hand on the food rack and held the wine ss with his other. He looked apathetic yet


    elegant.


    He wanted to see what Riley was going to do.


    The wound on Riley’s knee reopened and she could feel a sharp pain throughout her leg. The pain


    then spread towards her body. She felt like strangling Euan and Lydia to relieve her pain!


    Euan and Lydia were surrounded by people and they didn’t notice Riley. The guests didn’t know who


    Riley was, but they let her through as she was emitting killing intent.


    She didn’t want to just expose their adultery and thought of an idea to make the night more interesting.


    Hendrix noticed that Riley turned away and left the crowd!


    What was she nning to do?


    In the midst of the crowd, Riley walked swiftly pass them and disappeared around a corner.


    Euan who was surrounded by the crowd squinted his eyes. He thought he saw someone familiar just


    now. It felt more familiar the more he stared.


    He wanted to look more clearly but he couldn’t see the person anymore.


    Riley walked through the merry crowd and took a deep breath as she stood behind a Roman pir. She


    lifted her skirt and noticed that the blood was seeping through the bandage on her knee. Her wound


    had worsened.


    There were waitresses constantly walking pass the corridors next to her. Riley lowered her head and


    quickly walked towards the stairs. She avoided the surveince camera and walked down one floor.


    If she remembered correctly, this was the ce.


    And she was right. Riley smiled.


    The brightly lit hall suddenly turned pitch ck! All the lights went out!


    Noises of sses being shattered, and tables being overthrown could be heard. The guests were


    yelling, and the female guests were screaming. There was a hugemotion in the hall!


    “Everyone, calm down! It’s just a power failure! Stay where you are and wait for the workers to fix the


    issue!”


    “Don’t panic! Don’t panic!”


    “Stay where you are! It’s just a temporary outage!”


    The workers of the MBK Entertainment Center were yelling on the top of their lungs trying to calm the


    customers down. But the scene was already way too chaotic, there was at least a few hundreds of


    people in the hall and they were all howling at each other uncontrobly!


    Some guests took out their phone and turned on the shlight. The white floor was stained with wine


    and it was a mess. Shattered wine sses were also all over the floor.


    “Euan! Euan!”


    Lydia hugged her arms around Euan’s neck amid the chaos. Euan nced at her in the dark and


    calmly grasped her thin wrist. He then moved her arms away, “I’ll go see what’s up.”


    Lydia didn’t think that Euan would abandon her like that, she was embarrassed and angry at the same


    time, “But Euan, I’m scared…”


    Euan frowned, “Get out of the hall if you’re scared.”


    “I…”


    Just when Lydia was about to talk, Euan turned around and left, walking into the darkness.


    Euan grimaced, he thought about the familiar figure he saw just now. Was that her?


    Hendrix smiled brightly the moment the lights went out. He thought Riley was chickening out just now


    and was going to just take it, but she had a greater n in mind.


    Dr Watson, you were so cool!


    Hendrix left the hall swiftly amid the chaos and went downstairs.


    But Riley wasn’t outside of the control room. The control room was filled with workers trying to get


    things to work again.


    “The wire was cut off, it’s going to be hard to reconnect it.”


    “I don’t care how hard it is, just fix it! The guests today are important people, we cannot afford to offend


    them.”


    “Okay, we’ll try our best.”


    Hendrix smiled contently hearing the electrician’s conversation. Job well done, Riley.


    Euan walked out the main building passing through the revolving ss door. He looked around


    searching for the “criminal”. He was ring so hard, it was as if he could cut people into halves with


    that sharp gaze of his.


    Outside the parking lot.


    Riley stood in front of Euan’s ck Roles-Royce. She crossed her arms and stood in front of the car.


    She then took out a lipstick from her bag and opened the lid slowly. After that, she started drawing in


    full seriousness on the windscreen…


    Euan, you asshole. How dare you brought Lydia the wench to a public banquet?


    Riley couldn’t tell if she was feeling anger or pain. The scene of Lydia lying in Euan’s arm kept


    emerging in her mind. Her heart ached as if something had sliced through her heart.


    It wasn’t just pain that she felt, she also felt helpless.


    She was his wife! His wife!


    Suddenly, she heard pping sounding from yonder. She stopped drawing and looked up. It was


    Hendrix and he was lying against the car door.


    “Riley, that was amazing. I respect you,” said Hendrix as he smirked. The expression on his handsome


    and young face was of amon smug look belonging to a rich young master.


    Riley scoffed, “You’re not bad yourself. You found me here.”


    Hendrix looked at the graffitied windscreen. He read the words out loud, “Asshole, give me back my


    money… Riley, well…What is this?”


    Riley threw the lipstick on the ground and wiped her unsullied hand. She snickered and said, “Why? Is


    this not good enough?”


    Hendrix shook his head, “Nope, it’s not threatening enough. The degree of revenge is not high


    enough.”


    “Oh, are you the expert now?” Riley crossed her arms and looked at himposedly, “What would you


    write then?”


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    Hendrix picked up the lipstick from the ground and held it between his fingers, “Well, I wouldn’t write


    anything, but I’ll draw something on it.”


    Riley stared at Hendrix silently as he drew a skull on the windscreen…


    “This is what you were nning to draw? So childish!”


    Hendrix threw away the lipstick and exined himself, “I’m making it more artistic!”


    Who would care about that?


    Riley turned around and was going to leave. She saw Euan with his hands in his pocket. He stared at


    her and Hendrix coldly from afar.


    The air suddenly turned colder than ice.


    So cold that she could hear ice breaking and falling onto the ground.


    Hendrix turned his head and met his brother’s eyes. He cried out loud in his heart. Shit, he was caught


    red-handed!


    Riley didn’t look remorse and wasn’t afraid at all. She looked at Euan right into his wintry eyes and


    snickered under her breath. He was looking at Lydia so lovingly just now, but he was staring at her so


    coldly. Euan, you sure treated me well.


    “Brother, what a coincidence,” said Hendrix, trying to divert his attention. He could see in his brother’s


    eyes that he was ready to tear Riley apart anytime now.


    Euan red coldly at Hendrix, “Go home!”


    Hendrix was stunned, “Brother…”


    “Go home!”


    Riley whispered to Hendrix, “Go home. Your brother is telling you to go.”


    Hendrix answered in a soft voice, “What will happen to you if I leave? My brother will kill you.”


    Rileyughed, “He would’ve killed me already if he really wanted to.”


    Euan was boiling in anger seeing the two whispering to each other. He pointed his finger at Hendrix


    andmanded, “Hendrix, go home.”


    Euan was getting aggressive and Hendrix didn’t dare to disobey him. He gulped in fear and said, “I’ll…


    I’ll go now.”


    Hendrix gritted his teeth. He wanted to say something for Riley, but being surrounded by two


    timebombs, anything he said would cause an explosion right now.


    Hendrix knew his ce and left them alone.


    Riley slightly lifted her head to observe the expression in Euan’s eyes.


    Anger, coldness, and threatening to kill.


    “You sure are gutsy,” said Euan. There were double meanings behind his words. He said each word


    loud and clearly and they pierced through Riley’s heart like an arrow.


    Riley wasn’t going to cave in, “I’m not as gutsy as you, Mr. George. Showing off your mistress in public,


    you sure have no fear.”


    Her sarcasm was cold and indifferent as if she was just another spectator.


    Euan clenched his fist, he wanted to punch Riley in the face.


    “Are you jealous?”


    Euan squinted at Riley, trying to look for a hint of jealousy on her face, but to no avail. The only


    expressions on Riley’s face were bliss after revenge and her usual mocking face. There wasn’t a third


    emotion.


    “Why should I get jealous, Mr. George?”


    Euan walked closer to her and every step he took made the pressure in the atmosphere go up one bar.


    The air was getting thinner and Riley found it hard to breathe.


    Euan grabbed Riley’s chin with his slender finger and said, “You’re not jealous? Then why go through


    all the trouble to cut the power?”


    The streetlights shone on Riley’s nicely shaped face. He could see the stubbornness and indifferent in


    her eyes, she was emotionless and cold. Rileyughed, “There wasn’t any trouble at all, it was an easy


    operation.”


    Euan was angered to the max!


    “Do you want to die?”


    Riley thought that he was going to punch or p her, and she would faint from it. But to her surprise,


    nothing happened. He was so angry that she could see his veins popping and his face red from being


    furious.


    But even so, he didn’t hit her.


    She was surprised, but also not surprised at the same time.


    Well, why would Euan care to hit someone who was a nobody to him?


    Riley slowly reached out her hand and touched his arm. She knew that Euan hated it when she


    touched him. But tonight, she just wanted to make him mad, “Mr. George, your beautiful mistress is still


    waiting for you inside. Why don’t you go back to her?”


    Beautiful mistress? She had to be talking about Lydia.


    “You dare im that you weren’t jealous?” said Euan as he inched his handsome face closer to her.


    Riley inched backwards as he came closer.


    “Why should I? Oh right, I was ted, looking at the mistress in your arms. I…”


    Before Riley could finish her sarcasm, Euan pressed his hot lips on hers! She couldn’t say another


    word!


    He didn’t want to hear another word from her!


    Riley was driving him crazy!


    “Let…!”


    Riley struggled as she punched and kicked him. But Euan pressed hisrge stature on her and


    forcefully invaded her body!