Presiden's wild wife

Chapter 31 Protective

Jeremy didn't listen to her at all and drove the car straight to the South Hotel. Elena's face was grim when they arrived. She got off without even looking at Jeremy and hailed another taxi to leave.

"Elena, you are already here. Don’t be childish."

Jeremy walked to her and grabbed her at her arm. His hand was so strong that Elena couldn’t break free.

She was Childish? Elena could barely contain her sarcasm. Who the hell was being childish now? Didn’t she even have freedom to leave when it was clear that he had forcibly dragged her here?

"Jeremy! Elena!" A delighted voice came out. Elena felt familiar at once and looked around to see Victor, the monitor who had organized this gathering today.

Victor become a civil servant after his graduation, he also did well and had a meteoric rise in the recent years with the ass-kissing skill and the his family’s connections. He seemed to get older and fatter after these years.

"Why didn't you call me since you arrived? If I didn’t happen to come out to make a call, I wouldn't have known when you were here."

Elena took advantage of Jeremy's distraction to shake him off and faked a smile, "Monitor, I'm sorry. I'm a little busy with work and really not available today."

When Victor heard that, he immediately put on a serious face, "No way. You've arrived here and don’t have several minutes to say hello?"

Just several minutes? Elena hesitated.

"Come on. Elena, just a few minutes." Jeremy looked at Elena with indulgence as if she was losing a temper.

Victor took a look and got it immediately. He led them inside, walking and laughing, "I know. You two must have a quarrel, right? So you say you are busy with work and don’t want to show up. but you can't forget these old friends all the years, can you?"

Elena tried to get away but failed, so she had to explain, "We broke up a long time ago, so Monitor, please stop talking like that."

Broke up? Victor stopped and looked at Jeremy suspiciously. When did they break up? How came he never hear about it?

Jeremy said with a look of helplessness, "You know, just being childish. You have to get used to it."

Victor believed Jeremy and said to Elena in a serious tone, "Young people like you tend to break up easily. Sometimes people get closer after quarreling. But remember never go too far."

She was going too far? A surge of depression arose in Elena's heart and she nearly spat blood in anger. With her hands clenched tightly, she glared at Jeremy with hatred, "Jeremy, don't you dare to repeat what you just said again!"

Jeremy's gaze dodged. Victor only thought she was still angry, and pulled the two inside without listening to their explanation, "I don’t want to judge what happened between you. You can solve your problem in private."

...

This was the first time she had wanted to hit someone so badly. She had made it very clear that she wasn’t willing to arrive here. How came Victor kept pulling her inside!

As Victor spoke, he had already brought them into the room. A group of old classmates had already been seated and waiting. There might be dozens of them. Victor returned to his seat and Elena and Jeremy sat beside him.

Just after taking her seat, Elena felt uncomfortable like bugs were biting her all over her body.

Victor lifted his glass, ''It's really not easy for us to have this gathering. Now everyone is here, it's been a few years since we graduated. But today we gathered here and so many emotions just flooded over me. To start, come on, let's all drink!"

Everyone raised their glasses after hearing this. Elena followed with a sip of juice as a toast of sorts.

Victor caught her and said straightly, "Elena, are you still at school? We are all drinking wine now. But you chose juice. That is cheating!"

Victor had worked for a few years and got used to ordering people after his promotion. Elena was holding her glass awkwardly. She didn’t want to drink wine but now everyone was looking at her. Noticing this, Jeremy kindly smiled and raised his wine, “Elena doesn’t drink wine. How about I drink for her?" Then he finished his wine in a gulp.

"Good!" Victor shouted pleased and followed with a toast. He came to Elena while patting her shoulder, "Elena, you just said Jeremy wasn’t nice to you. If so, why will he be so protective of you?"

Jeremy laughed and looked at Elena with a happy look.

Elena felt sick about everything. She didn’t care if Jeremy drank for her. She didn’t like Victor’s jokes. she didn’t want any of this, so she just stood up and was ready to leave, which draw their attention at once.

Victor was startled, "Elena, what are you doing?"

Elena looked at Jeremy who was trying to pull her and shook off his hand at once.

"Elena, don’t be childish before so many people now. We can talk about it later..."

So many people? So now he realized this was so awkward in front of so many people? In that case, why could he pull her here all the way in the first place? Why did he pretend they were still together? And furthermore, did he think he could get her back by doing so?

Or, did he think she would miss him for the sake of old times?

"Sorry, I know this is supposed to be a happy party today. But I remembered I promised to my husband to visit the elder in the family today, so I have to leave. But I hope all of you can have fun and enjoy the party ..."

Elena hurriedly found an excuse. Then she grabbed her bag and left the room in a big hurry without looking back.

They still didn’t know what was going on and looked at each other. Their eyes finally fell on Jeremy in unison.

When Elena and Jeremy were graduating from college, their relationship was made public, and they became the perfect match in classmates’ view. To be honest, nearly all of them envied them of the sweet love. So they saw the two getting in together just now, they naturally assumed they were still together.

But Elena just made it very clear that her husband was not Jeremy!

Victor put down his glass and didn’t know what to do. He asked, "Jeremy, what's going on? Aren’t you two together? How come Elena married?"

Jeremy felt his head exploding with a buzz. The familiar silhouette in his memory vanished without any trace. He couldn’t hear anything now...

Elena left the South hotel and breathed in the fresh air as if she had come to life. For a moment, she was almost suffocating.

She never expect Jeremy to be so shameless. They were not together long time ago. Why was he making this drama!

She wasn’t sure if Jeremy really applied for a leave for her, so she returned to work as usual. Coral and Sophia were a little surprised to see her, "Elena, didn't your friend just say you weren't feeling well enough to come?"

Elena darkened her face and explained, "That man is not my friend. In the future, please don’t take his words seriously. Just ignore him."

"Really? But he came to you before. You remember? That tall handsome one?" Sophia was confused.

Aria happened to hear her description and instantly knew who she was talking about. She threw a sneer, "Of course he isn’t your friend. He is your underground lover!"

...

Sophia was about to retort but Elena stopped her and pushed her back into her seat. She ignored Aria and rushed to apologize to Coral, "I'm sorry, Editor-in-Chief. I promise nothing like this will ever happen again."

Coral was going to reprimand her. But when she noticed Aria waiting to enjoy the show, she changed her mind and said, "It is fine, just don’t do that in the future."Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"Okay. Editor-in-Chief."

That was it? Aria couldn't help but bristle, "You are really good at manipulating. First, Daisy agreed to your interview, and then Logan personally required that you should interview him. And now there's someone calling to ask for a leave for you!"

Compared to what Elena suffered at the party, Aria’s words meant nothing. Elena smiled lightly, "It’s just a mistake today. But apparently, you are paying a lot of attention to me. Why? Are you falling in love with me ?"

“Nonsense!"

"Fine. I should get back to work now. But you don’t seem to be busy at all? Why? Group one are not working recently?"

Aria gave a fierce glance at her after hearing that she was mocking her for successively failing to interview Daisy and Logan.

"You are so arrogant now. But remember, when your underground lover is exposed, sooner or later, you'll have to pack up and get the hell out of Green-light Magazine!"

Elena couldn’t care less, "I don't think any of this is relevant to you."

"You..."

Aria was so angry with her that she couldn't say a word. Finally, after stammering for a while, she could do nothing but to leave. But before leaving, she still didn't forget to glare at her again with a strong sense of jealousy and disgust.