A Love Trap novel Chapter 20

'This is the most efficient way to make Fiona shut up!' Ashley thought with a victorious smile visible on her lips.

Seeing the way Ashley treated Fiona, Ellie rolled her eyes at her disapprovingly.

However, Ashley just grinned back mischievously. 'Got a problem with that?' she thought.

The trio ran into Rita, and she was looking a lot less confident and much less cocky than she had been yesterday.

Ashley gave her a vague glance, thinking, 'It looks like the tides have turned, after just one day. But it's wrong to gloat over other's misfortune.'

Sensing Ashley's gaze on her, Rita looked at her with a blank expression on her face and then looked away.

'She must hate me very much.

But it's not my fault. She brought it all on herself!' Ashley thought.

The time had passed in the blink of an eye and it was already dusk. The three girls stood in front of the Luo Group's building preparing to bid each other goodbye.

"Ellie, Ashley, see you tomorrow," Fiona said cheerfully, waving to them.

Her house was in the opposite direction to where Ashley and Ellie lived. But since the girls were all good friends, they would always walk out of the company together and then go their separate ways.

"Bye. See you!" Ellie and Ashley replied in unison.

They watched Fiona for a brief moment as she walked down the street and then they too headed to their apartment.

Ashley and Ellie rented an apartment in close proximity to the company. It made it more convenient for them to walk to and from work every day. It would normally only take them around ten minutes to get home at strolling pace.

On the way home, they chatted happily with each other.

All of a sudden, Ellie stopped and asked, "Now, can you tell me how on earth you managed to pull that off?"

She gave her best friend a stern look and an expression that implied, that she wasn't going to give her any other choice but to answer her question.

Ashley knew that look. She had seen it many times before, so she didn't dare try to hide it from her any longer. Ashley heaved a heavy sigh.

"Remember that day when I visited the Star Asylum?" she asked.

"Yes, we agreed to go there together, but then I couldn't go because I had something else that I had to do. And you went there by yourself, I remember," Ellie said nodding.

"That's right. Well, when I came back. I ran into someone- a beggar," Ashley said.

"He had mud all over his clothes and he smelled terrible. But there was something about his eyes, they were so kind and shone so brightly and beautifully. I guessed that he would have been hungry, so I gave him something to eat. And then we exchanged contact information."

"Are you serious? You exchanged contact information with a vagabond?" Ellie raised her voice and stopped on the spot, while she held Ashley by the arm. She gaped at her and then frowned and said, "Have you lost your mind?"

"Could you keep your voice down, Ellie?" Ashley said through clenched teeth as she glanced around embarrassed.

Since it was rush hour, Ellie's loud remark had drawn the attention of the many pedestrians.

Even though Ashley didn't care what other people thought of her, she felt self-conscious about being gawked at by passersby.

Ellie let out a deep breath to compose herself and after a few moments she said, "Okay, I'm ready now. Go ahead."

"Calm down. I only gave him my QQ account. Anyway, a long time has passed since that day that I ran into him and to be honest I even forgot about him. Then recently, he sent me a buddy request and I accepted. It turns out that he isn't a beggar after all.

Apparently, he came to J City to visit his relatives but got mugged. He lost everything and that was why he was in such a bad way. Later on, he managed to contact his relatives and recover some of his things. He thanked me for helping him and we would chat through QQ sometimes.

During one of our chats, he told me that he was really good with computers and offered his skills to me if I ever needed them. And that's pretty much it,"