Always Been Yours (Tessa and Nicholas) novel Chapter 195

Chapter 195
Biting his lip, Kieran put down the wine glass in his hand. “But of course.”
Laughing, they all stood up and went to where Timothy was.
Everybody knew that this group of people were the real young masters of their respective families from the upper echelon, so they all made way upon seeing them walk over.
Aside from Bruce hailing from a family-owned small middle enterprise, the others’ families were all just upstarts in the industry. Compared to Kieran, they were practically nobodies.
Seeing Kieran and his gang walk over made the group all stop dead in their tracks. Not daring to continue bullying Timothy, they all greeted the young masters respectfully.
Timothy, although a bit shocked upon seeing Kieran, still greeted politely, “Master Kieran.”
“Hello.” Kieran nodded.
Hearing Kieran’s reponse, Bruce was shocked and confused. They had just greeted him in the same way, yet he did not even bat an eyelash. So, why did he respond to Timothy now?
Don’t tell me this poor cripple knows the second young master of the Sawyer Family?The other young masters are also eyeing Timothy with interest. It’s as if they came over for him this time… No, that can’t be! Timothy is just some broke kid with a scholarship. How could he know these people from the upper echelon?
Although Bruce was worried about the current situation, he still managed to keep up his current façade.
Switching into a smile, he spoke courteously. “I did not know that the young masters were coming over, so I did not prepare anything. I can arrange for whatever your heart’s wishes.”
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“There’s no need.” Not wanting to play along, Kieran immediately interrupted Bruce’s intention to call the waiter over.
Then, Kieran’s friends also laughed. “Do you think that Master Kieran would want some trash that you’re offering? Do you think that he’s lacking in any way?”
“Apologies, I was too brash,” Bruce said pathetically.
He was counting on sheer luck and wanted to build a rapport with these young masters. However, looking at the circumstances now, it would be close to impossible to do that.
They seemed to have come with not-so-kind intentions.
“Who said that he was a disabled just now? Was it you? Or you?” Those people who were on the receiving end of Kieran’s finger did not even dare to breathe as he questioned them.
The people who were being pointed at were already scared of Kieran. Everybody knew that he
was usually easygoing, but they also knew that if one offended Sawyer’s second young master, death would be waiting.
And now it was obvious that Kieran was not in the best of moods, so they were trembling out of
fear and nobody dared to admit to it.
Laughing awkwardly, Bruce replied, “There’s nothing to it, Master Kieran. Maybe you’ve heard wrongly? We’re schoolmates, after all. We have a close relationship.”
Henry growled in response, “Heard wrongly? Do you think Master Kieran is deaf?! Master Kieran, don’t let him pull the wool over your eyes. It was him that said that just now.”
Henry was not a fool, and he obviously saw that Kieran was here to back them up.
Even though Henry could forgo the fact that Bruce did not want to help them, he could not forgive those people for their insults. Since it has come to this, Henry chose to voice out his complaints instead of holding it in, as he no longer cared about them being schoolmates.
Kieran then nodded in acknowledgement. “Now that everyone knows that it was you who said it, apologize and slap yourself twice. After that, I’ll treat this as something that never took place.”
Bruce turned pale-faced upon hearing this.
He was extremely astonished due to the fact that Kieran really did come for the cripple to back him up.
At that thought, Bruce truly did not really care about how these two knew each other, as cold beads of sweat had already drenched his back.
Trembling, he replied, “Master Kieran, this is all a misunderstanding. We really are schoolmates who were just playing around earlier. I think you also know that close friends often joke around like this, no?”
Chuckling coldly, Kieran only demanded, “Who’s playing around with who now? If I want you to apologize, you apologize. If I want you to slap yourself, you are going to slap yourself.”
Bruce still hesitated upon hearing this.
If he really apologized to such a nobody in front of such a crowd, he could give up the thought of mixing with his current group of friends in the future. On top of that, Kieran even demanded that Bruce slap himself. If word of this got out, the latter would lose all dignity.
Yet, Kieran was not somebody that he could offend.