Chapter 196 Could You Leave Me Alone
Before Calista could respond, that person yelled frantically, for
Are you blind? Do you know how hard it is
me to order this dress? I bet you can’t even pay for the dress if it got dirty.”
She sounded like Charlotte. Calista lifted her head. It was Charlotte indeed. She was wearing a sexy,
black fishtail gown. But her hips weren’t plump enough to accentuate the gown.
So Charlotte ended up looking like–what’s that word that’s been trending on social media–drip. Yes, it
seemed like she had no drip at all.
She looked at Calista in disdain. Her arms were crossed. She posed patronizingly although she was
shorter than Calista.
“Ah, who do we have here? It appears to be Lucian’s ex–wife. How did you get in here? It wouldn’t be
possible for a peasant like you to enter. Did you hook up with some rich man?”
Calista was merely here for Augustus‘ sake. She didn’t want to argue with an idiot like Charlotte.
So Calista snapped back at her, “Lucian doesn’t like women who talk too much. He despises them even
more when they behave like shrews, shouting and yelling in front of the public.”
Charlotte took a glance around uncontrollably. She was relieved when she saw no one was paying
attention to her.
She retorted in a low tone, “Nonsense! If you knew what Lucian’s ideal type is, why did he divorce your
then?”
Calista didn’t bother to talk to Charlotte anymore. She went right past her to get drinks.
Charlotte stared at Calista’s back. She simply couldn’t understand why Lucian married her in the first
place. Calista wasn’t from a dignified family, nor was she rich.
Although her looks were captivating, there were still plenty of women out there with prettier faces.
Charlotte wasn’t dumb. It wasn’t possible to threaten Lucian to marry someone unless he fancied that
person. Then… was it because of Calista’s occupation? Artifact conservator.
Well, it sounded pretty decent. Charlotte took a glass of water.
“Calista…”
Calista was busy picking her drink. She swerved around suddenly when she realized someone was
approaching her. Calista remained vigilant as she did so.
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Charlotte was standing right behind her. Calista knocked into her hand as she turned around. The glass
tipped over. The water spilled directly on Calista’s hand.
“Ouch-
It was hot water. But it had been left on for quite some time. Although the water wasn’t burning hot as it was, Calista still felt a burning sensation on her hand.
“Argh-
It wasn’t Calista. Charlotte was the one shrieking in pain. Charlotte’s wrist was in Lucian’s grip. Her wrist was visibly bruising. The sound of bones breaking could almost be heard vaguely.
Charlotte’s expression was twisted in pain. She shrieked even more so as her wrist wasn’t freed from Lucian’s grip.
“You’re looking for trouble,” said Lucian coldly.
Charlotte was trembling in fear, and pain. “Lu-”
Before she could continue, Lucian pushed her away. Charlotte fell hard on the drinks counter and knocked over a pile of colorful drinks. She was completely drenched.
Everything happened within seconds. Some of the guests hadn’t yet processed what happened. All they saw was Lucian dragging Calista to the washroom.
Cold water came washing down on Calista’s burnt finger. The burning sensation finally toned down. But
the weather was still cold.
Although the burning sensation was gone, coldness took its place instead. Her fingers were paralyzed
from the cold.
Calista curled her finger. She turned off the tap. Half a minute had passed, and the burning sensation came back again once the coldness started to fade away. She turned on the tap again and washed her finger.
Lucian could only stand aside and watch. He was left with this only option after he ordered the server to go buy some burn cream. He called his family doctor.
The doctor’s input didn’t differ much from what they had been doing now. If the injury wasn’t serious, it could only be overcome by constantly washing her finger under running water and applying burn cream.
Otherwise, there wasn’t a better way even if they went to the hospital. Calista would still have to bear with the pain.
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Her head was lowered for the whole time, and her cascading long locks shielded her face. Lucian
couldn’t tell her emotions as he couldn’t even see her face.
The sound of running water filled his ears. At this moment, Lucian suddenly felt a pang of indescribable
panic and bewilderment as Calista remained silent.
“Calista, I-”
He was about to say he would seek justice for her. But Calista interrupted him calmly.
“Can you leave me alone? I pity myself for having to bear with this unjust treatment as your ex–wife, who’s
had nothing to do with you now.”
She took a deep breath to calm down.
“Maybe I’m just being super unlucky this year. I bump into almost every unfortunate matter. If you stay
close to me, I’m afraid that I won’t even make it until the end of this year.”
Lucian stared at Calista with a stoic expression. “Are you blaming this on me as well?”
He didn’t even talk much to Charlotte. He even rejected Gilbert’s proposal to collaborate between the two.
companies once he found out his real intentions.
Calista kept quiet. She wasn’t in the mood to argue with him now. She was already troubled with the
Injury. What’s more, it was her hand which she valued much that was hurt.
“Calista, come on. Are you shifting the blame on me instead of Charlotte when she’s the one who hurt
you? Then shall I just blame it on you instead regarding what Paul and Hector did?”
