Chapter 334

The awards ceremony was in a week.
“When are you two going to announce your relationship?” Shanley asked, a slight curve on his lips. His girl was getting absolutely trashed online, but she wouldn’t let him intervene.
Jimmie didn’t answer, instead looking to his sister for her reaction. He wouldn’t dare make a move without her approval.
“Let’s wait a bit longer,” Juniper said, finishing her milkshake and handing the empty cup to Shanley. She leaned back in her seat, content and relaxed. “Don’t bother with the online comments for now. Just save the evidence. It’ll be useful for the lawsuit later.”
This time, she was going to teach those slanderers a lesson they wouldn’t forget.
Back at Cloudscape Community, Juniper had just stepped out of the shower when her phone vibrated. It was Luella.
“Juniper, you ditching your old friends for your new man?”
Luella’s voice came through the speaker. She was lounging in a bar booth, one leg casually crossed over the other. Beside her, a pretty, innocent-looking girl was nervously pouring a drink, her face blushing.
“Tomorrow,” Juniper replied, toweling her wet hair, her tone relaxed. “After school, at the bar.” “Just you?” Luella chuckled suggestively. “Not bringing that old man of yours for me to check out?”
Juniper’s lips tightened. “Say he’s old one more time. I dare you.”
“Tsk, tsk. You’re not even married and you’re already this protective?” Luella clicked
her tongue and took a sip of the wine, nearly choking.
“When it comes to spotting
scumbags, I’m the expert,” Luella
said, turning to shoot a flirtatious
wink at the girl beside her. With net
slightlymessy hairstyle and
ve
masculine clothes, coupled with deliberately manly’ gestures it was hard to tell ruella’s gender. To an outsider, she simply looked like a very handsome ‘man’. “Gee, thanks,” Juniper said dryly. Hearing footsteps approaching the door, she quickly said, “Gotta go.”
The call ended just as Shanley walked in, happening to catch her abrupt reaction. It seemed like she had hung up suddenly because she heard him coming. Whose call was so urgent that he couldn’t know about it?
“Why is your hair still wet?” Shanley didn’t ask about the call, his focus immediately shifting to her with a slight frown.
“I’ll go get the hairdryer.” Juniper put down her phone and turned toward the bathroom.
Shanley had never felt the urge to snoop through her phone and had no idea who was in her contacts. But in that fleeting moment, his gaze unintentionally fell on the screen, which showed her recent calls. caff from 45 seconds ago was with someone named ‘Luella Langley’.
Luella Langley? The name made Shanley’s nerves instantly tense as certain pieces of information clicked in his mind. If he recalled correctly, this was the person who had swooped in and bought the O Moultlands district for a high price, only to plant cilantro there. Even Juniper’s apartment in Cloudscape Community was purchased by this ‘Luella Langley, More importantly this was a man
who on earth was he that even Cybernetic Shadows couldn’t dig up any information on
him? And why was Juniper talking to
him so late at night?
He recalled the scene just moments ago when he opened the door. The girl had definitely looked a bit flustered. Shanley’s expression darkened, a knot of panic forming in his stomach.
Crap. Was she going to leave him?