53 53. Lea and ra


    Lea’s mouth could only gape, forming a veryrge O. She really couldn’t answer the woman’s warm and enthusiastic greeting. A greeting that should be answered with the same level of friendliness.


    ‘She is ... ra?’ Lea wondered in her muddled mind.


    Correct! The woman she bumped into was ra, Dave’s fiancée.


    Lea swallowed. She forced a smile, blinked a few times, and said, “ra! Hi! How are you?”


    “Ah, Lea! No need to be so formal!” said ra with an exaggerated chuckle. Her hazel eyes stared intently at Lea. “I still remember that Dave was throwing a tantrum when you left him. Let’s meet him! Don’t worry, he is fine,” ra patted Lea’s shoulder and asked her to go see Dave, half insistently.


    “But, ra! I-”


    “Don’t worry! I told you, he is fine!” ra encouraged her again. She then said goodbye to his friends and put her arm around Lea, inviting her to meet her fiancé.


    Lea’s heart was beating erratically. She wanted to refuse ra’s invitation. However, ra is a real pushy. She didn’t ept a refusal.


    Firmly, ra led Lea out of the crowd. Of course, they ran into a confused William waiting at the edge of the crowd for Lea.


    .....


    “Hi, William! How are you?” said ra in a friendly manner. She didn’t know what had happened before.


    “Fine, thanks,” William replied, returning ra’s smile. “Oh! ra, Lea, do you know each other?” William asked again, in an awkward tone.


    raughed crisply. He looked at William with an amused look. “Of course, I know her well! She used to be Dave’s secretary, my handsome hot fiancé! The yummiest bachelor ever in the business world!”


    William and Lea frowned. The two of them then strengthened their sense of smell and confirmed that they smelled alcohol from ra’s mouth. No wonder she’s so tipsy. She almost spilled everything she thought of her hot fiance.


    “Come on, let’s go see Dave. He’ll be very happy to meet you all,” ra said and then chuckled as if it was a very funny joke. She then put her arm around William and Lea and pulled them over to Dave’s table. He was in the middle of a chat with his colleagues


    “Hi, Davey, babe! Look who I brought with me! Your handsome CEO friend and your pretty secretary-I mean your ex-secretary.”


    Dave, who heard ra’s drunk voice, immediately asked his colleagues to leave for a moment and turned his attention to his fiancée. However, of course, he didn’t know at all that ra woulde with two people he didn’t expect toe.


    “ra? Oh, you are with ... William and-Lea?” Dave asked very nervously. “Good grief! Did you guys get invited too?”


    Dave couldn’t show any expression other than nervousness. He didn’t know how to make up his mind so quickly. At first, he wanted to dy until there was the best solution he could offer. However, on second thought, he felt even more cowardly. He didn’t know how to exin to the innocent ra. ra, who didn’t know anything, must be affected by the mistake he made that night with Lea.


    “Right! You’re happy to meet them, aren’t you? Come on, you said you want Lea back to be your secretary?” ra tightened her grip on Lea’s shoulders and William’s back. When lined up like this, the three of them looked like stairs whose middle was almost broken because it nearly wobbled. “She is here, babe! Say it to her!”


    “ra, you should never touch the alcohol, love! You know that you can’t handle even a shot!” Dave looked around. ra’s alcohol tolerance was very low. It must be her friends’ doing.


    Not long after, a child’s voice called out to William. “Father, it’s Mr. Montgomery!” shrieked the voice that William remembered was n’s.


    William’s attention then turned to n who was running towards him. The sweet little boy gave him greetings and thanks.


    “I’m very happy because you can meet your father,” William said while stroking n’s head. For a moment, he forgot that there was a ticking time bomb nearby.


    “If it weren’t for your help, I’m sure I would still have to sleep with the other kids at the orphanage,” n said with a genuinely sweet smile.


    “n, you can’t run around like that when there are a lot of guests at the party. Not polite. You can also injure yourself and others.” A little girl’s voice made n speechless. The ck-haired beautiful girl was very cute and adorable, it must be the girl n used to like. Unfortunately, it turned out that they were half-siblings.


    “Okay, Louisa. I’m not going to run like that again.” n suddenly changed his attitude. Stand up straight and put on a formal face. He made Williamugh out loud. Surely n’s union with his biological father came at a price with such a drastic change in atmosphere.


    A few minutester, Mark Stevens and an elegant woman dressed in a ssy ck long dress approached William. “You must be Mr. William Montgomery, right?” Mark Stevens greeted. He turned out to be not a very friendly person like William thought he was. Unlike the two-faced Martin either. He’s something else. No wonder his father said that Mark Stevens was a difficult person to approach.


    “I am,” William replied enthusiastically shaking Mark’s outstretched hand. He just wanted to think positively about him. At least Mark was a loving and responsible father.


    “Are you busy?” Mark asked again.


    William looked around. “No,” William answered firmly.


    “Then you wouldn’t mind if I asked you to sit with us over there, would you?” Mark asked again.


    “Of course, with pleasure,” William said confidently. He looked at Lea for a moment and took a deep breath. This business matter was very important, he had to leave Lea alone.


    William then approached Dave. “Be a real man! Treat Lea and ra well and fairly,” William whispered to Dave.


    Hesitantly, William then turned to Lea, “Sorry, I have to go! If there’s anything,e back to my family’s house. Don’t run away again! I promise to help and support you.”