Love Is a Sweet Addiction

Esther brought Reid to Royal Hotel on time.

She did not get out of the car directly. Instead, she turned around to look at Reid and asked again, “Are you sure you can manage this?”

Reid waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry. Do I look like I can’t handle this?”

Although he sounded confident, Esther reminded him once more, “No matter what they say or do later, don’t be too excited. Remember to control your emotions.”

“I get it. I will try to be a gentleman.”

“That’s true. Bare it in mind.” She believed that a man nurtured in a noble family should be a gentleman. Moreover, although she had rarely seen Terence and had even not met him in person before, she could tell that he was not a short-tempered man.

Reid opened the door of the car and was about to get off when Esther suddenly stopped him, “Wait.”

Reid was speechless. He rolled his eyes and said, “What now, Esther? Can’t you have some confidence in me?”

Esther pulled his face over. After looking at him carefully for a while, she said, “Wait a moment.”

As she spoke, Esther took out a small makeup bag from her bag. She then took out an eyebrow pencil and scrutinized Reid’s face again. Then, she began to draw under his eyes.

“What are you doing? You want to put me on makeup?” asked Reid.

“That’s right. I’ll have to draw some scars on your face to cover up your handsomeness.” Although Reid was not that handsome, in order to satisfy the vanity of those women, she would need to uglify him a little bit.

As Reid rolled his eyes, Esther quickly finished drawing. After a while, she looked at his current face and nodded in satisfaction, “All done.”

As soon as they got out of the car, the ladies who had been waiting at the entrance to see what would happen began to gossip.

The car was Serena’s. It was a luxury car and was very suitable for the Gibson family’s identity. Thus, the ladies were not suspicious of Esther and Reid. On the contrary, Esther could faintly hear them saying jealously, “Terence indeed looks very ordinary. Unlike James, who is both handsome and rich. Terence is way inferior to him.”

Hearing this, Reid was immediately a little annoyed. He lowered his voice and asked, “Miss Esther, just how ugly did you paint me?”

“Don’t worry, it’s not that ugly,” Esther held his arm and smiled, “Stand straight and be confident.”

“I’m telling you. This is the first time in my life that I’ve been called ugly. After that, you have to compensate me for my mental damage. I…”

“Stop! I will. I promise!” Esther pushed Reid’s face back with a smile as if she was acting coquettish towards him.

A woman waiting at the door lowered her voice and said, “Come on, let’s go in and tell Anne that they’re coming.”

From beginning to end, Esther didn’t seem to see the women. She walked straight to the banquet hall on the second floor.

The banquet hall was very big and was well decorated. It looked quite fancy.

The Cusack Group had been losing money ever since Esther and Anne’s father went into a coma and Anne and some relatives took charge. Anne was lavish in spending money. Other than the part used by her family, almost all the company’s profit was used by Anne. She didn’t have any idea of saving money.

Of course, Esther had never asked about the Cusack Group, nor did she think about fighting for anything. Anyway, it wasn’t like she couldn’t earn enough money to support herself.

“Oh, it’s really Esther coming.” Along with a shrill and mocking voice, Anne slowly walked over with her wine cup in hand, surrounded by her good friends.

Everyone was looking at Reid as if admiring a strange object.

Although Reid was used to being sized up in the bar, it was the first time he had been surrounded by such an enchanting group of women who were looking at him as if they were looking at a monkey. He felt slightly uncomfortable.

However, when he thought of Esther’s reminding him to be confident, gentleman, and elegant, he stood straight and smiled at everyone. “Hello, everyone. I’m Terence. It’s nice to meet you.”

After sizing him up, the women began to gabble, “Why is James so handsome, but his uncle looks so ugly? What makes such a big difference?”

“Indeed. Maybe there has been a random genetic mutation?”

“No wonder Esther didn’t dare to bring Terence out. If I were her, I wouldn’t take him out either.”

“That’s right. How do they dare to come?”

Such sarcastic comments went on.

Listening to the women’s mockery and insult, Reid forgot about how he promised Esther and immediately exploded, “Do you live on laughing at others, windbags? What’s wrong with me being ugly? How does that bother you?”

“Hey…” Esther hurriedly tugged at Reid’s sleeve, but Reid angrily slapped her hand off and turned to her, “Esther, why are you caring about such kind of people? What’s the point? Not only they don’t know how to respect others, but also speak so unashamedly. In my opinion, they are not much different from the whores in the bar except that they dressed skimpier and talked cheaper.”

Reid thought that Anne might at most be teasing Esther, like what common sisters might do. He didn’t expect these women to be so direct and arrogant. They spoke so disparagingly of him and even did it in front of him.

A man can be killed, but not humiliated! He couldn’t help it anymore!

In an instant, the women looked bad, and Esther was embarrassed…

Reid was too unreliable. He promised to behave himself on the way here. Yet he messed it all up at the beginning. How could they continue to fake couples?

Although it was pleasant to hear him scold the women, this was not what she had planned for today!

Seeing Anne’s face contorted with rage, Esther felt relieved!Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

The women finally came to their senses and were about to refute Reid’s words when Anne stopped them in time.

Anne, who had just been furious, instantly calmed down. She did not blame Reid. Instead, she blamed her friends, “You think you did nothing wrong? It’s so impolite of you to say someone is ugly in public. No wonder Mr. Terence was angry. How can my birthday party go on with you behaving like this? Come on, apologize to Mr. Terence right now.”

After saying that, Anne took the lead in apologizing to Reid, “I’m sorry, Mr. Terence. My friends like to make jokes. Please forgive them for offending you.”

Her friends snorted coldly. Although they were reluctant, they gave Reid a fake smile at Anne’s request. “Sorry, Mr. Terence, we were just joking.”