Summer took a few good seconds to digest what Jerome had meant.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” She turned back to Jerome, her expression slightly chilly.
Jerome smiled, and with an innocent look, said, “I also just found out.”
Summer laughed as if she would believe what he said.
She turned her head in the direction of the entrance and did not see Leonardo there.
After taking over the Emerson Corporation, Leonardo would attend many functions and dinners.
Yet, because all of the functions that he would attend were all very high-end ones, Summer never expected him to show up in a reception that Jerome would attend.
On the other hand, the Patels and the Emersons did not have any business dealings and rarely got along.
So she had not thought that Leonardo would appear in this reception.
And now she felt that Jerome did that on purpose.
“Now you are my female companion, and your task tonight is to be with me.” Jerome’s smile deepened, and as he closed his arm, signaling Summer to follow him.
Summer was feeling rather conflicted.
If Leonardo was to come and found out that she had attended this function with Jerome, heavens know how angry would he be.
Summer pondered about it and thought it would better if she “owned up” to it.
After taking two steps forward, Summer held her stomach. “My stomach is aching a little. I need to head to the bathroom.”
Jerome stopped walking and looked at her with a half-smile.
As she said that, even Summer felt that line was a bit familiar.
At the start of the year, she had used the same trick when she dumped Jerome at the airport and went abroad alone.
Summer was a little embarrassed and explained earnestly, “It’s a real stomach ache this time…”
After some thinking, she made up an excuse. “I have a bad stomach, and had not been eating well for the past two days, so I’ve been purging…”
Jerome nodded and said, “I’ll go with you.”
This man is really…
Summer exhaled and just allowed Jerome to accompany her to the washroom.
After entering the female washroom, she immediately hid inside a cubical and called Leonardo.
The call got connected just after two rings.
“Summer.”
Leonardo’s voice was deep, and he would simply call her by her full name. As time passed, she felt that the way he called her was very intimate.
Summer organized her thoughts and asked, “Are you attending a dinner tonight?”
“What? Checking on me now?” Leonardo’s voice had a trace of laughter in it. “Don’t you worry, I have no female companion. I brought Tim along.”
Summer cried inwards as she heard that.
She had no idea how to respond to that latter part.
Noticing that Summer was not responding, Leonardo asked, “What’s wrong?”
“I…” Summer really could not say it, or rather, she dared not tell him that she had accompanied Jerome to this reception dinner.
Leonardo on the other side waited patiently for her to speak.
Summer hesitated for a bit, before saying, “That’s good if you don’t have a female companion.”
The smile in Leonardo’s tone got even more obvious. “I’ll be heading over to the reception site now. I will call you later.”
Summer only answered, “Okay.”
After hanging up, Summer circled around the cubicle.
Leonardo was really going to attend this function, and if she went out, she would definitely run into him.
After thinking for a while, Summer gritted her teeth and just planted herself onto the toilet seat.
She had decided not to go out until this banquet had ended!
She did not believe that Jerome would go into the women’s toilet to look for her!
…
Jerome waited for Summer outside the washroom but she did not emerge from it after a while.
So, he gave her a call.
As Summer did not answer the phone, he thought something had happened to her.
Before the call was automatically hung up, Summer finally answered the call, “Hello.”
Jerome let out a sigh of relief and asked, “Why aren’t you out yet?”
After a moment of silence only did Summer’s faint voice rang out. “I’m still having diarrhea. You head off first, and let me sit here for a bit.”
Jerome was speechless.
He knew that Summer did not want to accompany him to the reception, but he did not expect her to come up with such a lame excuse.
Jerome forked his arm over his waist, and his tone was somewhat helpless. “Summer, have you forgotten our previous agreement. You accompany me to this reception, and I’ll tell you what I know.”
Although Summer wanted to know a little about the Emerson family from Jerome, now that things had come to fore, she found that a furious Leonardo was far scarier than the matter with the Emerson family.
“Well, at most, you just don’t tell me, then. That’s that. Bye.”
*Beep…*
As the tone of a call being hung up rang out, Jerome paused for a moment and stood where he was with an inexplicable expression, and seemingly after he thought of something, only did he left.
At this time, a slender man walked toward him.
Jerome narrowed his eyes as he stood on his spot. As the man got close, he stepped in the way of the man and called out to him, “Young Master Emerson, long time no see.”
Leonardo stopped as he raised his eyebrow before saying casually. “You wanted to see me?”
After Jerome helped Summer escape last time, Leonardo went on a ruthless streak and fixed the Patel family well, but in the end, he still left a lifeline and did not bankrupt the Patel family.
Leonardo had no pity for a man who had coveted his woman.
But he knew very well that if he destroyed the Patel family, Summer would certainly blame herself.
Jerome also remembered the things that Leonardo had done to the Patel family and his face turned cold for a moment before breaking into a smile again. “No, I was just waiting here for Summer to come out from the washroom, never thought that I’d run into you here though.”
Just as Jerome said that, he smiled deeply.
Sure enough, the moment Leonardo heard the words ‘Summer’, his expression changed.
Leonardo narrowed his eyes, and his voice was rumbling. “Who are you talking about?”
“Your ex-wife, Summer.” Jerome spoke word by word and deliberately emphasized the “ex-wife” part.
Jerome saw Leonardo’s expression had turned dark and continued to add fuel to the fire. “She had accompanied me to attend this reception. Both of you were a thing back then, why not say hello after she comes out?”
Leonardo sneered with a somber expression, and after glancing at Jerome, he walked straight into the woman’s washroom.
“What are you doing?!” Jerome watched Leonardo walk into the women’s washroom with a trace of disbelief in his eyes.
The banquet had just begun, and there was barely anyone in the washroom.
Leonardo recalled the phone call that Summer had made to him earlier, and the arc of his mouth was even chillier.
Summer, you sure are something.
He started from the washroom door, and he knocked all the way from the first cubicle onwards.