Standing outside the crowd, just like strange spectators, they watched from a distance that Victor were flattered by others, their glasses clattering. Their flattering made Victor nobler.
He was noble, but how about her?
Elinor can only stand aside, watching Darleen cross the crowd, go to him and hold his arm intimately, like his real girlfriend. Others asked about their relationship, and she bowed her shy face.
She acted like his woman.
Elinor laughed silently, then looked at Kaliyah and said gently, "In fact, it's not interesting funny to stay again, is it?"
"It depends on you." Kaliyah held her back and protected her from being seen by Victor. "Do you wanna leave?"
"Yes, a bit."
Elinor said, "Let's leave now. Anyway, Victor won't notice us."
"Then let's go together."
Kaliyah took Elinor's hand. "Let's sneak out and see who will find out that we are gone first, all right?"
Elinor smiled. "Fine."
At this moment, Victor and Darleen were still surrounded by people. He knew she did so to show her intimate relationship with him. But it was a clumsy way to force him in public to declare their relationship.
He looked up and glanced at a back sneaking out of the door slowly.
He swallowed and discovered that person was Elinor.
She has gone?
What is she going to do? Where will she go?
Subconsciously, he wanted to break free from the crowd and chased her. But when he was about to move, he froze.
Is her departure related to him?
It was fine that she left. He hoped she left earlier, for many men stared at her back, whispering, when she wandered in the venue. At least, he wouldn't be annoyed by the remarks of others on her now.
At this thought, he sneered. Others saw this weird smile and misunderstood he was impatient, so they left soon, leaving Darleen alone beside him.
"Victor, are you in a bad mood?"
Darleen asked him.
He looked up at her casually, as if he didn't care about her at all. He spited out slowly, "Miss Harvell, am I stupid in your eyes?"
Darleen paused and then said, with panic on her face, "I... I don't know what you mean."
"Is it good to make people think you are my girlfriend?"
Victor frowned. "Your relationship with her seems to be very good."
Rankin was amused. "Delete 'seems', please. Our relationship has been good since high school."
His confession made Victor dumb. His eyes were more gloomy. "Since high school... Then she went abroad..."
"I often went to visit her." Rankin did not deny it. He thought there was no need to do so. Nothing ambiguous happened to Elinor and him, so he felt calm. "She suffered abroad."
She suffered.
The two men mentioned another woman in front of Darleen, and she was uncomfortable, especially after she saw Victor's subtle change on his face when Rankin told him Elinor's grievances abroad.
Why does Rankin deliberately say this?
Is he speaking for Elinor?
"I thought..." Rankin looked around, "Elly may come to say happy birthday to you. You were surrounded by so many people just now, so I came to see if she was here."
Actually, she was not here.
Victor sneered, "She may come to greet me? She wants me to die. How can she greet me?"
Hearing his ironical tone, Rankin unconsciously spoke for Elinor. "Victor, you can't think so. She pestered you before. But she gave up doing so now. You can't still blame her."
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