Reese scolded Gwendolyn eight hundred times in her heart. She did not dare to see the change in Lukas’s
expression now, and looked at James.
Although she was on Lukas’s side, it was impossible for her to let James down in front of so many people.
She took a deep breath and said calmly, “Mr. King, I think you misunderstood. I am not familiar with Mr. King, but I don’t think playing a game with you would belittle me. After all, we played before, didn’t we?”
James’s expression brightened when he heard this.
Lukas’s eyes flashed. Thinking of Reese’s demeanor in the video, his eyes could not help but stay on her
for two seconds.
He did not expect that these two seconds would make Gwendolyn go crazy with jealousy.
She immediately retorted, “It’s just playing billiards. My cousin is giving you face by playing with you. Don’t think too highly of yourself.”
Reese looked at Gwendolyn indifferently: “I’m a human, not things to be compared.”
Gwendolyn was anxious: “You’re insulting me by calling me a thing!”
Reese asked innocently, “Aren’t you a thing?”
Gwendolyn’s rationality was gone: “Of course I’m not a thing”
After speaking, she belatedly realized her words and blushed, hating that she couldn’t tear Reese apart, but because Lukas was by her side, she did not want to act like a shrew.
She glared at Reese and said, “Do you think it’s amazing that you can play billiards? I can too.”
Looking at this farce, Elias couldn’t help but sneer and said sarcastically, “Silly, it’s not difficult to play billiards; it’s rare to be extremely skilled.”
Anyone who had watched the video and the scene of Reese playing pool would naturally understand
what Elias meant.
There were plenty of women who could play billiards, but few could do it with such elegance and end a game with a single shot.
Gwendolyn never thought that Elias, who was standing beside Lukas, would scold her.
Her face turned red but the did not dare to course back
Rease saw the guests who had finished eating and stopped not far away to watch the play. She frowned and said to Cole, “Director Hopkins, I’m a little sleepy. I have to go to work tomorrow. I’m leaving first.”
Cole nodded.
Reese pulled Ava out.
No one took the initiative to stop her.
However, Gwendolyn’s eyes flashed and the held her special pool cue
She didn’t think that if the poked this, someone would do something to her.
As a result, just as her billiard cue was about to hit Reese’s body, a big hand grabbed her.
Before James could react, he saw Lukas grabbed the cue and looked at Gwendolyn gloomily.
Reese’s steps of leaving also stopped.
Lukas grabbed Gwendolyn’s billiard cue, but looked at James sarcastically: “Your King family’s methods are really inferior.”
Gwendolyn did not expect that Lukas would make a move. She was so frightened that she did not dare to
move.
James’s face became ashen when he saw the direction of Gwendolyn’s cue.
For a moment, he felt that he had lost all of his face to Gwendolyn.
Gwendolyn’s eyes widened and she looked at James in fear: “Cousin, I–I didn’t mean to-
As a result, before she could finish her words, James suddenly made a move. Everyone reacted. He had slapped Gwendolyn in the face.
Gwendolyn looked at James in disbelief and covered her face. She never thought that he would treat herself like this for an outsider.
At that moment, she looked at everyone’s ridiculing eyes and wanted to disappear.
After James beat Gwendolyn, he did not look at Lukas, but towards Reese. “Reese, I apologize. My cousin is ill–disciplined. I hope you are not angered.”
James never thought of giving Lukas an answer, but he had to give Reese an answer.
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He didn’t want anyone to do something to Reese.
Reese was still a little shocked. James had still looked for her before to find an explanation for Gwendolyn,
She never thought that James would slap Gwendolyn in public.
She looked a little confused, and finally shook her head helplessly: “No need, I’m not angry, I’ll leave first.”
After she finished, she dragged Ava and quickly left.
Gwendolyn stared fiercely at Reese’s back, her eyes hiding deep resentment.
Victoria raised her eyebrows and looked at Gwendolyn. There was a dark light in her eyes.
Cole looked at James deeply and quickly left with everyone in the design department.
When Lukas saw everyone leave, he snorted coldly and suddenly let go of Gwendolyn’s billiard cue.
Gwendolyn clutched at the cue, but when Lukas let go, she took a step back.
Reese had already walked out of the Moonlight Pavilion.
Lukas walked over to pay the bill. James stared at his back gloomily. His voice was unclear: “Lukas, Reese
is different from Emily. Don’t think of her as a bargaining chip.”
