Back to Love: A New Beginning
Chapter 62

Chapter 62:

I glanced at Louise and found that she was merely giving Felix an indifferent look, without a hint of emotion.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Felix waved nonchalantly at Derek, “I thought you were so happy in Qinben that you wouldn’t want to come back.”

Derek sat down across from him and lit his own cigarette. “The old man tricked me into going there.”

Soon after, Louise and I sat down.

The two sexy ladies leaned against Felix, rummaging through his clothes.

From what I had known, he hadn’t been such a cad before. But now, he was like a dirty playboy who liked pleasuring himself with women.

I wondered if it was because of what he had said to her that day.

Louise was normally talkative, but today, she was strangely silent.

I could sense the uncomfortable tension, so I suddenly put my arm around her shoulder.

“Lulu, I got a job today – shouldn’t we celebrate?”

Louise looked at me and asked, “What’s the job?”

I hesitated for a moment and mumbled, “I’m going to be a switchboard operator at Wonder Hospital.”

There was an awkward silence, followed by the unkind laughter of the two ladies.

“How nice! That means you won’t be robbing or mugging anyone, nor will you have to rely on your body to earn money. You’ll be able to use your skills to earn a living. You’re right. We should celebrate.”

Having said that, Louise snapped her fingers and ordered two buckets of stout. Hearing her comment, the two ladies were embarrassed.

Once the beer was poured, Louise opened several bottles in one go.

Startled by the spectacle, I commented, “Lulu, I think we should celebrate on a smaller scale.”

However, Felix suddenly interjected, “Eveline, Derek can afford to keep you for a lifetime. He’ll have an easy time keeping you ten, let alone one!”. She already knew her comment was going to provoke friction. Indeed, Louise slammed the bottle in her hand on the table.

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“You’re right, men like to keep women close when they’re rich. That’s why women should learn to trust themselves.”

Felix frowned as he looked at Louise. Luckily, he didn’t say anything else.

Derek hugged me, “Having one is enough for me. When she starts at her new job, she’ll have her own social circle. I have to support her any way I can.”

I stared at his face, a little surprised. What he was saying now was very different from what he had said before.

Suddenly, she turned her head and gave me a look into her eyes.

His gaze was as deep as an abyss. Nervous, I averted my gaze, but soon froze. Louise’s father’s young wife was approaching us with that toy boy. Quickly, I glanced at Louise and realized that she was spinning in the same direction. She looked enraged.

This was the worst time for these adulterers to show themselves. They had the bad luck to appear before Louise while she was in a bad mood.

She feared that Louise would take revenge on them.

It was then that Louise drank an entire bottle of beer in one gulp. Once she put the bottle down, she picked up the glass of wine on the table.

When we arrived, only Felix and his wives were there. I figured the wine glass must have been his.

Under their surprised gaze, Louise got up and walked towards the shameless adulterers with the wine glass.

The next second, she bumped into her stepmother and spilled the contents of the glass on the latter’s neck. “Ouch!” a high-pitched shriek echoed throughout the area. Then her stepmother’s lover shoved Louise away.

“Who the hell are you, why are you causing trouble here?”

Louise was taken aback. Instead of rushing to fight, she fiddled with the wine glass in her hand and glared at her stepmother.

“Ah, Auntie, what a coincidence to see you here!”

Her stepmother was not slow to recognize her. The woman’s face went from anger to disbelief, then to embarrassment.

The young man glanced at Louise and asked, “What did you call her?”

I was very afraid that Louise would make a scene, so I quickly went to pull her away from them. However, she was very stubborn. She shook off my hands, looking the young man up and down.

“Your gigolo is much younger than my father. If you like younger men so much, Linda Farris, why the hell did you pick on my father then?”

Indeed, his stepmother’s name was Linda Farris.

“Is she the bitch who often gets on your nerves?” The young man held Linda in his arms. Perhaps some would say he was rude for saying this, but this man deserved a spanking.

He seemed to know everything about Linda. He must have complained a lot about Louise to him.

It seemed that Linda was troubled, so she pushed her lover away, apparently in a hurry to leave.

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