A Night with Her Cruel Mate

Chapter 54 Be Honest

The next morning, Consuela and Julia stepped out of the elevator at the ground floor and saw Eric not far away from them. Upon seeing them, he walked over and said, "Julia, I have something to tell you."

"I’ll just wait for you in the car." Consuela was clever and perceptive enough. She took Julia’s suitcase and left in a hurry. Julia slightly nodded. After her agent left, she turned to Eric and said, "Eric, I’m just about to look for you. Here’s the car keys."

Handing the car keys to Eric, she continued, "Thank you for helping me. I really don’t know what to do without you."

"I am not here to ask you for the car keys." Eric glare at the keys with such disapproval.

"I know," Julia nodded. "Please, hear me out."

Eric touched his chin and shut his mouth, implying to offer his attentiveness. Seeing that, Julia went on. "Eric, I appreciate your help. I accepted a new TV series recently, so for a few months, I'll be working at the film site. I won’t have the time to thank you properly. When I come back, what about I’ll treat you to a decent dinner?"

"Julia Sweetheart—"

"We’re not kids anymore. I won’t call you Big G again, and please, drop that name-calling too. It’s inappropriate." Struggling to hide the awkwardness she felt, she looked away.

"What should I call you then?" asked Eric flatly.

"Just Julia," she said with a smile. "I really have to go now. I’ll ring you when I come back."

"Well, then fine." Eric came here because he wanted to tell her something. However, in the end, he wasn’t able to state his purpose. "Then, I’ll look forward to your call."

"Sure." She waved goodbye and got in the car.

When she got in, Consuela was comfortably seated and busy scrolling on her phone. She put her phone away and stared straight at Julia. Her eyes were interrogative.

Favorable for Consuela that the filming site for that day was miles away. She had all the time to ask Julia. "Dear, tell me honestly, when did you get to know such a young and capable man?"

"When did you become so gossipy, huh?" Julia glared at her while positioning herself in the car.

"Stop talking nonsense."

With a resigned look, Julia asked, "Anyway, is he handsome? I can’t see it." Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

It was perhaps because Julia had seen Eric in his worst look. Even though he was much handsome now, she still didn’t think that he was good looking enough.

"Come on, don’t change the subject. How did you know each other?" Consuela rolled her eyes at Julia.

Julia replied flatly, "We have known each other since when we were young. We were neighbors. Eric’s house was beside our house, on the left side. And living on the right side of ours was… Terence."

She smiled to mask her uneasiness.

Seeing Julia’s pretending to be fine, Consuela knew that she hadn’t get over him yet. Julia had loved Terence for thirteen years, and that must be the reason that she couldn’t let go of and forget him.

Being sensitive to Julia’s feelings, she changed the subject. "Based on what I remember, you told me that your neighbor was a fat boy, right?"

"Yes, it’s Eric." Julia nodded. "It’s more than ten years. I haven’t seen him since his family moved abroad. He was using a different name when he was a child. It seemed that he had his name changed

after he went abroad."

Beside her, she reached the car’s drink holder and grabbed a bottle of water. After taking a sip, she chuckled while reminiscing a distant memory. "You don’t know how ugly he was when we were young. Seeing him for the first time again after a long time really surprised me. I didn’t recognize him at all. It was amazing, I didn’t expect that he could change that much. Completely a changed person."

"Successful on losing weight?" Consuela acknowledged enviously.

"Exactly." Julia laughed.

"Inspiring. Come on, introduce me to that young man later. Maybe we can get along, and also discuss how to successfully lose weight." For a long time, Consuela had been trying to lose weight, but to no avail.

"No problem. Just leave it to me. I have an appointment with Eric. When I finished shooting this TV series, we’ve planned to have dinner together. You can go with me, and I’ll introduce you."

"Okay." Consuela agreed. A second of silence, the conversation was about to come to an end when she suddenly thought of something. She lifted her head and looked at Julia. "What's his name again?"

"Eric Fang." Scratching her head, she looked at Consuela. "Do you think his name sounds nice too? I used to call him Big G when I was a child. As far as I can remember, his original name used to be Carl, it was terrible anyway."

Consuela didn't care what Julia was talking about. She took out her phone and searched for the name of this person. When she found a photo of him, she nudged Julia and showed it to her. "The same person?"

"Yeah." Julia looked at the photo. "I didn't expect that he would be this good looking."

"You've found a treasure, Julia." Consuela reached out to hold Julia's hand with excitement. No wonder she felt familiar when she first saw Eric.

"What's wrong?" Julia asked, with a confused look on her face. "Why did you make a fuss all of a sudden?"

"Look at this." From the storage box, Consuela took out a magazine. The cover of the magazine was Eric. "No wonder I think he looks familiar."

"Isn't that Eric?" Julia took a look at it. There was a news report about Eric. She didn't know until now that the enterprise of his family had grown into such a big one. Real estate, catering industry, tourism...

Julia remembered when Eric was a child, his father rarely went home. She finally realized why, Fang family's business was so huge. His dad had no time to spend with his family because he had to take care of their corporation.

"I just found out that he's well-known now," said Julia smilingly, throwing the magazine away.

"He is handsome and well-off. He knows how to make money. As long as he manages a company, this company's profit will grow twice as much," Consuela said excitedly.

"Really?" Julia asked, smiling. "I really underestimated him."

"Julia, don't you have anything to say after you read this report?" Consuela reminded Julia.