Penny Brown reached out and yanked him back, brow furrowed, “Lewis Brown, what are you mad about?”
“I made it very clear – this marriage, it won’t happen!”
“Lewis Brown, Olivia Scott already has your child, the invitations are out now, her parents are sitting downstairs, and you say you won’t get married, are you still a man?”
A series of words were thrown over, and I don’t know which one hit Lewis Brown’s heart at once.
With a cold look, he suddenly took a step closer towards Penny Brown, “Penny Brown, what are you so anxious for me to marry Olivia Scott for?”
Penny Brown frowned, “What do you mean?”
Lewis Brown’s eyes are complicated, there is pain and disappointment, “that day at ‘crystal’ dinner, Neal Williams’ mother is not you invited over, Olivia Scott is also you arranged in advance! You just want to put Andrea’s past in front of Christina Sanchez! What did you use to make a deal with Olivia Scott to get her to do your bidding?”
Penny Brown looks at Lewis Brown, who today, is too pushy. And, covered in thorns, like a wounded hedgehog.
Such a him made her feel strange.
“Lewis Brown, what are you trying to say by mentioning this now? You think I have some kind of deal with Olivia Scott?” She questioned in a cold voice.
Having said that, Lewis Brown simply pulled it all out of the bag.
“I’m well aware of your deal! She promised to help you, and you promised to help her convince me to marry her!” Lewis Brown growled low in hurt, his voice dull. There is nothing in the world that hurts more than when the person you have loved for so many years finds a way to push you towards another person you don’t love at all.
“Penny Brown, if it weren’t for you, I might not have actually married her. Let all those so-called responsibilities be to hell with you! But, to my dismay … you could have all but ignored my happiness for those so-called ‘deals’ and pushed Olivia Scott into my arms without you even knowing what kind of person she was! ”
His eyes seeped with cold ice, with heavy disappointment and pain, as if to freeze Penny Brown. “Penny Brown, you disappoint me to the core!”
Penny Brown gave a hard shake.
The look in his eyes, but also let her inexplicably feel the chest blocked, but, also feel aggrieved.
“It’s you who’s disappointing me! What is this now? Raising hell against me for your Andrea Jones?” Penny Brown questioned.
Lewis Brown grunted, “Shouldn’t you? How could you have embarrassed Andrea so much if you hadn’t joined forces with Olivia Scott?”
“AndreaAndrea, is that woman the only thing you see in your eyes? Lewis Brown, don’t forget, I’m your family!” Penny Brown’s eyes were red with aggression.
This is the first time Lewis Brown has spoken to himself like this for an outsider.
And, again, because Andrea Jones …
I don’t know if it was unwillingness or something else, but her eyes instantly turned red and she screamed sadly, “And don’t forget that she not only abandoned you and reneged on your marriage contract, but also seduced my fiancé! To be precise, both of us are victims, and now you turn around and blame me?”
“I don’t love her, I did her wrong in the first place!”
Lewis Brown defended Andrea Jones.
Penny Brown laughed coldly, “Yes, her mistakes are not mistakes, my mistakes are all unforgivable mistakes! Do you think I set you up with Olivia Scott for my own sake, that in your eyes I’m a person so selfish that I wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice your happiness?”
Lewis Brown looked at her mockingly, “Isn’t that so? At least, that’s who you are in my eyes right now!”
Penny Brown just felt a breath of air blocked to the chest. Without thinking, a hand is raised, is a slap down hard.
With wet eyes, tears fell down, “Lewis Brown, you bastard! Since Andrea Jones is so nice, you have the balls to pull her up on stage right now and marry her! I don’t care about you anymore!”
With that, she turned around and left.
Lewis Brown was dumbfounded by the hit.
When he came back to his senses, he only remembered the tears she had dripped down. The heart aches, and without thinking, a step out and pulled her back in.
“You let go!” Penny Brown was furious, struggling with one hand and going to pull the door with the other.
Lewis Brown had one arm wrapped around her and one hand had locked the door tightly behind her.
“I didn’t mean to be mad at you!” He explained.
Her tears made him a little overwhelmed.
In all these years, she has rarely cried in front of herself like this. And every time she cried, it was aboutmeeting Neal Williams.
This time …
But he was angry and cried.
“Yes, you don’t mean to be mad at me, you just hate me!” Unable to struggle away, Penny Brown kicked up in her high heels.
She was really angry, but she didn’t use much force on her feet.
Lewis Brown only hoisted her into a tight circle, “Penny Brown!”
“Lewis Brown, I’m telling you …” Penny Brown looked at her, “the reason I set you up with Olivia Scott was never because of that deal you called. I don’t like Andrea Jones, Andrea Jones doesn’t love you, so I don’t want you to be together, you don’t have to suffer like that, you know? Olivia Scott has your child, and she loves you, and if you can be together, it will be a full and happy family in the future, so what’s wrong with that?”
“Are you … afraid I’ll be aggravated?” Lewis Brown looked at her.
The tip of the heart trembles slightly.
Penny Brown, still angry, didn’t bother to talk to her and just reached out to push him.
Instead, he made a forceful, two-handed sweep and held her whole person firmly in his arms.
The firm, steel-like chest hugged over, causing Penny Brown to freeze.
This is not the first time she has had such an embrace, but …
But it is the first time to hear his violent heartbeat so clearly. It is also the first time to feel … this is a side of a man’s chest, not … only belong to the brother …
“Something seemed off about Lewis Brown…”, which made her subconsciously want to repel, frown, and reach out to push Lewis Brown.
Lewis Brown, however, embraced her tighter.
“Penny Brown, why don’t you ask me why I don’t want to marry Olivia Scott so badly?” asked Lewis Brown suddenly.
Penny Brown’s heart trembled, and suddenly felt that this answer, would make himself panic.
Subconsciously, it got scared.
“Don’t tell me! Lewis Brown, I don’t want to hear it!” Penny Brown shook her head in horror and tried hard to wrestle away from his arms.
Such resistance is all too obvious.
Heart ache.
A bitter smile, reflected in the corners of the lips.
Lewis Brown sighed and choked back what he was going to say, only to spit out the heavy words softly, “Her baby is not mine.”
“…” Penny Brown froze and looked up at Lewis Brown, “Is that why you didn’t marry Olivia Scott?”
She also thought …
“What else? What did you expect?” Lewis Brown wanted to laugh a little easier, but, looking at her relieved look, he couldn’t disguise it.
Penny Brown realized something suddenly and stared at him in shock, “What are you saying? Olivia Scott’s baby isn’t yours?!”
Lewis Brown didn’t say anything, Penny Brown jawed, “Are you sure? Could it be that you’re mistaken?”
“I was drunk that night and vaguely remember that I didn’t touch her at all, but, because I don’t remember it clearly, I’m not sure.” Lewis Brown let go of Penny Brown and took a list out of nowhere, “Olivia Scott lied to you, her child is still less than four months old. If I hadn’t secretly checked this, we would have been kept in the dark by her.”
Penny Brown pinched the survey results and read them from beginning to end.
“That’s outrageous!” Angrily slamming the sheet on the floor, she turned around and left, “Who does she think she is, how dare she fool us with someone else’s child!”
Lewis Brown didn’t stop her again, he just stood in the doorway and watched her fading back.
She never knew … and will never know, there is someone, from the beginning to the most secret position in her heart, deeply loved, but also bitterly repressed …
…
When Penny Brown re-entered the banquet hall, the emcee was already on stage getting ready, and even the bride was already standing on stage in her wedding dress.
There, Viona Hall and Steve Brown were surrounded by the relatives of the children’s family, all of them were concerned about the whereabouts of the groom – at the moment the bride was standing up there, though she was smiling, but her heart was already anxious. The wedding ceremony is about to begin, but the groom has disappeared.
Viona Hall caught a glimpse of Penny Brown and bustled out of the crowd, “Penny, have you seen your brother?”
“Yeah, where’s Lewis Brown? Why is he missing at a time like this, nothing happened, right?” The children’s family asked hurriedly.
Penny Brown was furious that her own family was being played with in this way, and did not even look at the Tong family, but only said to Viona Hall with a sullen face, “Mom, you inform the family’s driver and have the driver send them back to the Tong family.”
“What kind of talk is this? My daughter is getting married and the wedding hasn’t even been held yet, and you guys are sending us back. Even if you have money, you can’t treat us like this.” The child’s family was immediately dissatisfied.
Viona Hall was busy explaining, “You have misunderstood, that’s not what my daughter meant.”
“Mom, that’s what I mean!”
“What are you talking about!” Seeing everyone’s faces getting worse and worse, Viona Hall pulled her.
Olivia Scott, including everyone else, looked at her in amazement and confusion.
“Sister …,” Olivia Scott looked at her.
She had come over to Olivia Scott and did not wait for her to speak again, she raised her hand and slapped her in the face in an overbearing manner.
”Pop–” a sound that was especially piercing in the banquet hall.
Almost immediately, everyone’s eyes were looking this way. The whole room, into silence.
The Ruan family and the Tong family froze, unable to return to their senses.
Olivia Scott was dazed and covered her face for a long time before she came back to her senses.
Lifting her head, she looked at Penny Brown with tears already in her eyes, “Sis, why? Why did you hit me?”
“Don’t call me sister, you don’t deserve it!” Penny Brown was furious, grabbed the microphone in the emcee’s hand and spoke, “I appreciate everyone taking time out of their busy schedules to be here, but unfortunately, today’s wedding will not be possible. I apologize on behalf of my brother Lewis Brown, and I hope you can understand.”
Olivia Scott had a shock.
Lifting the veil over, she took a few steps over and grabbed the microphone, “Sister, what do you mean by that? Marriage or not is a matter for me and Lewis Brown, why do you …”
“Please call me Miss Brown!” Penny Brown looked at her coldly and cut her off unceremoniously, “Olivia Scott, if I were you, I’d get the hell out of here with this wild bastard from nowhere before it’s torn apart! Here!”
“How do you … you …”
“How would I know?” Penny Brown grunted and faced the bewildered guests on stage, “Sorry everyone! Is it not a joke that this Miss Tong, who is determined to marry into a rich family and is pregnant with the child of this unknown man, wants to blame us Lewis Brown? All of you should open your eyes and see clearly, don’t be fooled by these poor people’s families!”
“So that’s what happened.”
“Not surprisingly, nowadays, girls want to live a good life and do not compromise much.”
…
The meeting room, an uproar.