Raymond took a deep breath and went straight to Valeria’s room. He heard Natalie’s voice from a distance. “What’s going on? Raymond is not such an impolite person, so why did he leave her like that?”
“Maybe he did this on purpose because I was the one who introduced her,” William replied.
“He’s being too much!” Natalie complained.
“It’s not right of him to do this. You have to talk to him about it later!”
“How dare you complain?” Raymond was so angry that he couldn’t think straight anymore. He rushed in and said, “William, you did a good job!”
“You’re back? What’s wrong with you and why did you leave her alone? Do you know how anxious she is? She called Assistant Field countless times to ask about you.” Natalie fired multiple questions at Raymond.
“That’s right. Aren’t you being too unreasonable? If someone else finds out, they’ll definitely say something bad about you.” William chimed in.
“How can you still have the nerve to say that to me? What are you up to? Why did you find such a woman to go on a blind date with me?”
Raymond angrily questioned William, who continued to stay silent. Natalie interrupted him, “Why are you shouting at William? What’s wrong with Ms. Taylor? She’s beautiful, educated, and capable. Why do you dislike her?”
“How is she pretty? Mom, are you sure you’ve seen her before?”
“I’ve never seen her in person, but I’ve seen her photo. Didn’t she look very beautiful in the picture that William showed me just now?”
“Are you sure about that?” Raymond was upset when he thought of Anna’s appearance.
“Raymond, don’t go too far. Are your standards so impossibly high that you don’t think someone like her looks pretty?” Natalie was a little angry.
“Mom, William must’ve lied to you. He’s the best at doing things like this.”
“Did he lie to me? This is Ms. Taylor’s employee photo.” Natalie opened her mobile phone and Anna’s photo to show Raymond.
Anna’s face was well defined in the photo while her skin was fair and beautiful. She was not the same person as the one Raymond saw.
Raymond pointed at the photo. “Are you sure this is Anna?”
William nodded. “Of course! Just tell me f you don’t want to go on a blind date, you don’t have to find such an excuse.”
Raymond was extremely wronged. “How could this be Anna? I met a completely different person just now and I can’t even bring myself to describe her.”
William shook his head and said, “You can just tell me if you don’t want to go for the blind date I arranged. Why are you slandering a girl? Do you know that the saddest thing that could happen to a girl is to be called ugly?” Natalie also said, “Raymond, you’ve let me down. How can you do this? She is a senior executive of William’s company, so how can you belittle her?”
“No… Mom, you can’t listen to William. He’s just making trouble for me because he doesn’t like me and he did it on purpose!”
“William is not that petty. You don’t understand people at all. Since I can’t control you, I’ll tell your grandfather about this and let him deal with you.”
Raymond’s original intention to come here was to cause a scene. He had planned to expose William and complain about it to Natalie and Valeria. However, he had been forced to apologize and he had never thought that he wouldn’t get any benefits at all.
It was obvious that Natalie trusted William completely, so it was useless no matter how hard Raymond tried to explain.
Raymond left dejectedly after that and he didn’t even have dinner yet since the blind date.
There was a high-end western restaurant near the maternity centre. Raymond then went into the restaurant to have dinner after he parked the car.
However, Gavin called him before he even started eating the steak he ordered.
Raymond answered, “Grandpa! I’ll have dinner with you.”
“Brat, what’s wrong with you?” Gavin was very angry. “William was so kind to introduce a manager in his company to you, but how could you leave her behind like that? What kind of logic is this?”
“No, Grandpa. You can’t only listen to William’s one-sided story. He was the one who framed me today and he didn’t have any good intentions at all.”
“Why would introduce such an excellent girl to you if he had bad intentions? You brat, don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking. You wanted to take one of the twins after Valeria gave birth to Santhos and Cade. Let me tell you, the Howard family will let us raise the twins. You must get married and have children. This is your responsibility!”
“Grandpa, I was wronged and the matter isn’t like what they said. I was really tricked by William, please listen to me.”
“Okay, then tell me about it! I’ll teach you a lesson if you can’t explain it clearly.”
Raymond stopped eating and complained through the phone, “Grandpa, do you know what that Anna looks like? She looks like she’s about 6 feet. She’s so burly, round, her facial features are rough, and she has such a thick waist. She speaks arrogantly as if she’s the most powerful person in the world. She looks ordinary and she doesn’t know herself well. I think she’s crazy!”
Gavin did not believe it. “How is that possible? The girl that your parents and I saw didn’t look like this at all. She looked delicate, gentle, and beautiful. She is more than enough to match you.”
“All you’ve seen are photos. Don’t you know that most pictures can be photoshopped? A sixty-year-old woman can be edited to look as young as a maiden. Grandpa, you’ve been fooled by William! He lied to you with a photo of her and he’s deliberately trying to disgust me!”
“Is that really the case? Why did William do this?”
“Of course, it’s true. I said that wanted to bring one of the twins home yesterday, so he wants to take revenge because he holds a grudge against me. Grandpa, if you don’t believe me, you can go to William’s company to see if Anna is as beautiful as he said. I’ll hold a live broadcast and eat shit if what William said is true!”
Raymond even made a vow in order to prove that he had been fooled by William.
Gavin believed that William had really set this up to trick Raymond.
“Okay, I’ll let you go today. I’ll go to William’s company tomorrow to see if what you said was true.”
Raymond breathed a sigh of relief when Gavin believed him. He then put his mobile phone on the table and was about to start eating his steak when he heard a light sneer from the side.
“A live broadcast to eat shit? Well, I didn’t expect that there are people in this world who like to eat shit. It’s so unexpected that someone so good-looking would do something like that.”