Love Coming From The Least Expected novel Chapter 600

Crystal had a big mouth, and I had to warn her. She was quite capable of dropping snippets of nonsense in my mom’s ears and creating a rift between me and my mom.

“Tsk, Tsk. I won’t dare to think of any crooked ideas. Besides, I rely on Aunt Isabelle to get what I want. Why would I want to offend you, Yvonne Tanner?” Crystal flashed a provocative look through her narrowed eyes.

She called me Yvonne Tanner! People now addressed me as Ms. Goldstein or Yvonne Goldstein. Only Christopher would refer to me as Yvonne Tanner and that’s because he knew that I liked him to do so. But when Crystal said it, it just sounded sarcastic.

“No doubt, you are now Ms. Goldstein, all high and mighty. You have every right to be so. But, you must be thinking, what right do I have to speak to you in such a manner? I’m just a miserable nobody, right?” Crystal gave a strange laugh of delight as if she held some secrets over me, of which I didn’t even know of.

“What are you trying to say? I have no time for such chattering. Please leave if you have no other business. To put it plainly, get lost!” I had no wish to talk to her at all. Her carrying-on with my mom in the afternoon had infuriated me enough.

“You have a guilty conscience because in your heart you are still uneasy about everything.” Crystal laughed loudly. “Yvonne, shall we have another bet? Let us say, whether I can get into the Remington art exhibition, and hang my painting at the space allocated for you.”

Crystal’s words were loaded with meaning. Taking my space meant that she wanted to replace me. I narrowed my eyes. I had great confidence in my painting skills. “Are you sure that your own painting is good enough to replace mine?”

“Perhaps I don’t even have to paint it.” Crystal laughed in an inscrutable manner, but her face exuded every confidence of sure success.

This made me flustered because, in the past, I had always lost my bets with her. Hearing these familiar words and seeing the same old arrogant and dismissive expression on her face made me feel like my pathetic old self.