The Beauty and the Brain by Natalie Jones novel Chapter 61

Chapter 61 

Gavin pursed his lips and said, “Your Ms. Spence is so precious…” 

Dennis said, “The treatment is over, and you can go now.” 

Gavin was speechless. 

Gavin sat on the sofa and almost cried out, “Dennis Whitney! I’ve been your friend for so many years! You drove me away for a woman! No! How old is she? She’s not a woman at all!” 

Now it was Marie’s turn to be speechless. 

Dennis rubbed the corners of his forehead, “What do you want?” 

Gavin immediately said, “Clayton is back. Shall we go out for a drink?” 

Dennis looked at Marie sitting on the sofa and said, “Some other day.” 

Gavin got anxious and said, “What for? We have made an appointment, and Clayton may leave any day. Today it is! Are we going or not?” 

Dennis sat on the sofa and said leisurely, “No.” 

Knowing well what he was thinking, Gavin had to say, “You are afraid that Ms. Spence will be bored. at home alone, aren’t you? Bring her along! Sooner or later, she will be known as your wife!” 

Marie was speechless. 

Dennis turned to look at her and asked, “Do you want to go? Like Gavin, Clayton Philemon is also my friend and has been developing in France.” 

Gavin leaned over and said, “Marie, just come! Clayton is always flying around. It’s not easy for us 

to meet him!” 

“Go ahead then,” said Marie, being persuaded. 

Dennis went to her room to get her a coat and let her put it on. Then, he took a pair of cotton slippers. and put them on her feet. He bent down to pick her up horizontally and said, “Gavin, lock the door and go get the car.” 

Gavin was speechless. 

So why did he have to go with these two? To highlight the fact that he was single? 

Marie struggled and said, “Well, I can walk by myself…” 

Dennis glanced at her and carried her into the elevator, saying, “Be good and don’t move.” 

Marie could only obediently nestle in Dennis’ arms. Although she was 5-foot-6-inch tall, she 

always looked like a small doll beside Dennis. 

Gavin stopped the car in front of the house. Dennis put Marie in the back seat before getting in and 

said, “Let’s go.” 

Gavin sat alone in the driver’s seat and was speechless. So he was a personal driver now, right? 

The car stopped in front of a high-end clubhouse. Dennis got out of the car with Marie in his arms, 

and Gavin threw the car key to the doorman. Then he walked over to Dennis and asked with a smile, 

“Dennis, are you going to carry her upstairs like this?” 

Dennis didn’t look at him and said, “What? Are you jealous?” 

Gavin was speechless. 

Humph! 

As they strode into the clubhouse, Gavin and Dennis attracted the attention of the crowd due to 

their extraordinary presence, which made Marie lower her head even more. How embarrassing… 

Someone came up to greet Gavin, “Mr. Hart, I haven’t seen you for a long time. Where have you. 

been?” 

Gavin was furious after being retorted by Dennis. He waved his hand and said, “Get away. I have an appointment today!” 

Gavin went upstairs and pushed open the door of the room, and Dennis walked in with Marie in his 

arms. 

Someone kidded, “Mr. Whitney even brought a doll out?” 

Gavin sat down next to the man, took a gulp of wine, and said, “You guys can judge for me. I kindly asked him out to welcome Clayton, but he didn’t want to!” 

The man said cheerily, “Then this is big news. Let me see what a gorgeous beauty Mr. Whitney is protecting.” 

The man poked his head over, and Dennis carefully placed Marie on the sofa and said, “Just ignore them. If you don’t want to stay here, we’ll go back.” 

Marie nodded and glanced up at the man who had just spoken. He looked a bit similar to Dennis. 

The man had alluring eyes and said with a smile, “Hello, my name is Andres Robert, Mr. Whitney’s cousin.” 

Marie glanced at Dennis with an is-this-fool-your-cousin look. 

Dennis nodded in acknowledgment. 

Marie nodded with a smile and said, “Hello, my name is Marie Spence.” 

Gavin pursed his lips and said, “Why aren’t you saying anything, Clayton?” 

Only then did Marie see another man sitting in the dark corner. 

Wearing a dark suit, he straightened up with a cold presence. Even Dennis seemed gentler when compared with him. 

Clayton stared straight at Marie, which startled her. She seemed to have seen this person before. 

To be precise, she had seen him when she was Rose. 

Furrowing her brows, Marie tried to recall every mission in the past. Where exactly have I seen Clayton? 

Seeing that she didn’t say anything, Dennis turned his head and asked, “What’s wrong?” 

Marie shook her head and said, “It’s okay. It’s a little stuffy.” 

Dennis found a bottle of fruit wine and poured a glass of it for Marie, then he turned to chat with 

others. 

Marie knocked on her head and saw Clayton picking up the red wine on the table and taking a sip. Suddenly, she remembered that two years ago at the costume party, two men in black suits stood in 

the crowd, aristocratic and imposing. 

Even Marie, who wore a mask to the party for a mission, couldn’t help but take a few more glances 

at them. 

One of the men was Clayton. 

She clearly remembered that Clayton picked up his wine glass, took a sip, and chatted with the man 

next to him. 

And that man… was wearing a black half-face mask… revealing his sexy thin lips… 

With a loud clang, the wine in Marie’s hand fell on the table, making a deafening sound. 

Her memory couldn’t be wrong. The man wearing the mask was Dennis! 

Therefore, two years ago, on that stormy party night in France, she was so close to Dennis that she used her mask to cover her face, raised her glass, and smiled at the two noble men. 

Her tears fell uncontrollably, and she didn’t even dare to think about how she would be able to live with him comfortably in the same house, after she had met Dennis as a killer at that time! 

Marie made so loud a sound that Dennis looked back at her and asked, “What’s wrong, Marie?” 

Marie raised her head abruptly and met Clayton’s scrutinizing gaze. Tears welled up in her eyes, 

and her voice trembled, “My… My feet hurt…” 

Dennis took off her slippers and checked the burn on her feet. 

Andres, who was standing beside him, smiled and said, “Isn’t Mr. Whitney not interested in women? Ms. Spence is quite capable, isn’t she?” 

Gavin chuckled and roasted beside them, but Marie’s ears were buzzing. She could only see Dennis’s perfect side profile, and Clayton’s sharp eyes were in her mind. 

She was wearing a mask, so Clayton probably didn’t recognize her. But why was he staring at her? 

With her head lowered, tears rolled down Marie’s cheeks. She was too scared, being afraid that her identity would be exposed, and that others would know that she was a freak who came back from 

the dead, and… 

She was afraid that Dennis would look at her with a different expression from now… 

Dennis looked up and saw that Marie’s face was already covered with tears. Gavin came over and 

said, “Really? It’s just a burn. It’s nothing serious…” 

Dennis called with a cold face, “Cullen, come pick me up at Night.” 

Gavin was shocked and said, “You’re leaving now?” 

Dennis sat down to help Marie put on her shoes, saying, “Or what? Can’t you see that she’s in pain?” 

Seeing that Marie’s tears were like a flood, Gavin had no idea, and Andres said, “Let Mr. Whitney take Ms. Spence back first. Mr. Philemon is not in a hurry to leave. Let’s go on drinking.” 

Dennis picked Marie up and turned to nod at Clayton, “I’m sorry. I’ll treat you to dinner another 

day.” 

Suddenly, Clayton stood up and walked over to Dennis, saying, “Let’s meet tomorrow. Since Ms. Spence is not feeling well, let’s have a gathering at your house tomorrow. I’ll bring some wine.” 

Gavin smiled and said, “Okay, let’s meet at Dennis’s house tomorrow!” 

Clayton didn’t say anything more and glanced at Marie faintly. The latter buried her head in Dennis’s arms without saying a word. 

Thinking that she was in severe pain, Dennis said, “Okay, I’m leaving.” 

Andres opened the door and Dennis strode out with Marie in his arms. 

Clayton turned to Gavin and asked, “Where did Ms. Spence come from?”