Chapter 205 Matthew retracted his paws like a cat and gave an embarrassed smile. “Don’t try to pull the wool over my eyes, what he clearly said was ‘Pretty girl, can you do me a favour and be my translator’?” And then seeing Hailey’s oblique glance, he argued, “Sorry, my Italian, 1 just happen to know that a little bit.” As soon as he finished, Hailey gave him a heavy slap on the shoulder and turned her head to the sommelier and said a few words that the crowd didn’t understand, while Owen and Kyle spontaneously curved up the corners of their mouth. The former was because he understood, and the latter was because …… he knew his sister better. She must have recommended Matthew to the sommelier. Since you also know Italian, then you should go. Matthew pulled a long face. “No, you don’t!”
The sommelier set his eyes on Matthew and sent him a friendly gesture of invitation. “Then I’d like to trouble this gentleman.” Matthew didn’t know what to say. He just wanted to show off in front of Hailey, but he didn’t expect to make a fool of himself instead. Still undeterred, he approached Hailey and said with a grin, “How can I steal your thunder for such a glamorous moment?” Hailey didn’t want to talk to him and slapped him on the back, saying in one simple word. “Go!” “Okay.” Matthew felt like his bones were shattered by her slap, and he gave in in seconds. Once inside the bar, he stopped being timid and thanked Hailey for giving him the opportunity to be in the limelight, and showed off his
fluent Italian, which drew a round of applause. Kyle couldn’t help but laugh and said to Hailey, “This young master of the Holland family is quite interesting.” Hailey whispered, “He was probably a peacock in his previous life, spreading his feathers everywhere.” Kyle was overjoyed. What a sharp remark! As soon as Matthew left, the seat next to Hailey was empty, and Owen was able to get a seat next to her without a moment’s hesitation,
and asked symbolically, “Is there no one here?” Without waiting for Hailey to open her mouth, he added, “Thank you.”
Then what the hell were you asking! Hailey didn’t bother to even look at him, even if she said one more word to him, she would be showing him respect. Kyle, being a rubberneck, as usual, whispered in her ear, “Old love, new love, all together, our Ms. Newman is too charming.” Hailey gave him a light punch, as her brother started to meddle in the mess! With such a handsome man as Matthew translating, business here was much better, and many people came to the originally empty area. All of them were women, so it was clear he was quite a ladies’ man. Hailey genuinely felt that Brook could have Matthew working as a host in The Nomad, because he was sure to be the signature there. Three people were suddenly seated in the seats directly opposite Hailey, making her eyebrows knit lightly. In addition to Eliza, there was a man and a woman. The man looked like he was in his fifties and the woman looked like she was in her forties, and the moment they sat down, their eyes both looked towards her. Their eyes immediately collided. The man looked very familiar to Hailey. Even though she had only seen him once since her marriage to Owen, she instantly recognised him. It was her former father-in-law, Owen’s father, Alan Long. Then, the one sitting beside him, who had a very similar temperament to Eliza, was probably his confidante, Maya Brown. How could they have come to Berny and attended the party too? – Thoughts flashed through her brain like lightning, and Alan nodded at her across the air and smiled gently. Although he was a former father-in-law, Hailey and her former mother-in-law, Polly Moore, were like mother and daughter. But she had little friendship with Alan, not only that, but also she did not have a good feeling towards him because of his affair. She didn’t even bother with her ex-husband, let alone her ex-father-in-law. She just treated him as a stranger and with a light glance, she withdrew her gaze. Alan didn’t care much about her indifference, but slowly shifted his gaze to his son, Owen Moore, and when he saw Owen sitting with Hailey, with his body close to her, Alan had an idea of what was going on. It seemed that despite the divorce, he was still emotionally attached to Hailey,
Maya, however, was very dissatisfied with Hailey’s indifferent attitude and she approached Alan, whispering, “Is Ms. Newman face-blind and has forgotten about you, her father-in-law? Why is she ignoring people?” Even in her forties, Maya’s voice was still pleasant and lovely, and she was known as the “sweet voice” of Universal TV, speaking with a
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