Loving A STRANGER 11 Chapter 11: It Was Her Husband

She was acting as the mistress, who was to be caught and hit by the lead in a shopping mall.

In fact, it should all have been finished ten minutes ago. But the lead was Khloe's friend and embarra.s.sed Kylie on purpose. She kept feeding Kylie the wrong line or giving her dirty looks, which delayed the process by three hours.

When Kylie was getting her lunch, she saw a familiar figure.

This figure had a handsome look and long legs. The man was about 6.2 feet... Wait! It was her husband, Ethan!

It seemed like he was inspecting the area. People around him were respectfully guiding him.

The media had a live report. They were discussing the new leader of Century Group, that he would take some measures to make Century Group richer.

Kylie looked at the bruise on her arm, caused by Khloe's friend in a scene. She sighed; she was being treated like this, yet he was such a star. How could fate be such a dog?

As she sighed, the phone in her pocket went off.

"Kylie Finch! Come back in half an hour, or you'll see!" Laurence Finch's angry voice came through the phone.

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Alice Davis was so angry that Kylie had gotten the lead role in Tea House.

"Tea House? I invested with Blossom to avoid such conflicts. They were both period dramas. It's obvious that she's gone against me," Laurence explained with a dark look, though he was wrong. "I told Lucas to offer her a role as a dead body or a villain. When did she even attend the audition?"

Khloe gave her mom an orange and said: "I received the call from dear Lucas. She had been refused the role, but she ogled the director and got the role. Dad, you know that man..."

Seeing Laurence's face turn bright red, Khloe smiled. "Actually, giving her this chance is nothing. We are all family, and I wish her the best..."

"And her? Does she wish you the best?" Alice stared at Khloe with anger. "If she treated you like family, she wouldn't cause such trouble at your party! Things would be better if she were stopped! Do you still want to keep your career? Do you want to see the Finches lose face?"

When she referred to the things that had happened yesterday, Khloe's eyes turned red, and she looked down at the floor, about to begin sobbing.

Seeing her daughter cry, Alice touched Laurence on the shoulder. "How can you still put up with Kylie? She is always hurting your baby daughter just because Khloe is kind? Though Khloe calls her sister...Kylie never had a good att.i.tude towards us, even as a child."

Laurence's brows were knit. He placed his cup on the table. "Kylie..."

In fact, Laurence knew what made Kylie so crazy. He had seen her mother's suicide. From that moment on, she had been like an unhappy hedgehog and began to do whatever Laurence disapproved of.

She had argued and fought, smoked and drank, dyed her hair yellow, gone to the bars...She had been a good student and had become a bad apple almost overnight. At last, the school had called her parents more than eight times.

Laurence had once even discovered a pregnancy test in her bag. But she had never admitted it, even when he drew the belt against her.

At last, as he had watched her lying on the ground, gasping for air, he dared not strike her anymore. When he had wanted to bring her to a doctor, for a real pregnancy test, she had jumped from a window.

Laurence's headache the more he thought about what Kylie had done.

At that moment, the servant called from outdoors: "Miss Finch is back!"

Kylie wore a tight t-s.h.i.+rt, a tight leather skirt, and high-heeled shoes.

She walked directly to the sofa and sat down beside Laurence, crossing her legs and asking: "What's up?"

Seeing the bruise on her arm, and the expression on her face, Laurence a.s.sumed she had been fighting with the others again.

He spoke in a loud voice: "You are not allowed to be in the Tea House.

Kylie took out a cigarette, inhaled deeply, and asked: "Why?"

"Khloe is engaged to Aiden, but that doesn't mean you can get on with Lord Ethan! Who do you think the Parker family is? They won't let you get along with him!"

Laurence purposefully dismissed Kylie's acting career, and then wanted to destroy her relations.h.i.+p with Lord Ethan!

Aiden was nothing but a paper tiger: he looked ferocious, but, in fact, he had no power. Once Khloe had become engaged to Aiden, Laurence could get something from it.

But Lord Ethan was different for him. Laurence seemed to be humble, but he had everything planned out. He wanted to get back with the Parkers to take over their business. Right now, he had more power than Matthew Parker.

It was fine if he simply wanted to play around with Kylie, but if he had his heart set on her, things would be terrible: Garcia Entertainment would be shut down.

This reminded Kylie of a secret.

The flames leaped up in her eyes.

Kylie smoked and smiled. "Why didn't we stop them from getting engaged; I can't see what's good about that f.u.c.king a.s.shole."

She had thought her father would stick up for Khloe, but he didn't as immediately as she had expected.

"Dad, please don't be mad. There's some misunderstanding between them." Khloe stepped beside Laurence. "Lord Ethan has just come back from the army, and my sister had never even gone there...How could they know each other?"

She glanced at Kylie with sympathy. "My sister is just so mad at me that she randomly brought this man. Kylie will do something bad regardless of the Finch reputation."

After saying that, she crossed to the other side of the sofa to give Kylie some tea, as though in apology.

"My dear sister, before the party...Aiden told me we were going to dinner for Lord Ethan. And I didn't know he would propose, either...I have no excuse...You can beat me up or do whatever you want...but please calm down..."

Khloe continued in a different tone: "But you did do something wrong. How is Lord Ethan going to think of us, since he's been back? Besides, Aiden was banned because of this..."

The d.a.m.n b.i.t.c.h was an actress, indeed.

She was acting like a kind and perfect girl. Kylie wanted to praise her performance, so she did.

She stretched out her two thumbs, holding the cigarette in her mouth.

Laurence looked away and ate the orange Alice offered him.

"It's true, and you shouldn't have embarra.s.sed our family in that way, even if you were upset. You left the party in such a hurry, and I was embarra.s.sed when my old friends asked about you."

"Dad! No more complaining. Sister knows that she was wrong," Khloe said.

Kylie took a deep breath and smiled. "I don't see what mistake I made. After all, you're the one who took my boyfriend away."