CEO's Dumb Bride

Chapter 10 That Gesture Was Francis' Name

Chapter 10 That Gesture Was Francis' Name

With a loud bang, the bottle shattered into pieces. The liquid poured down, mixing with blood, blurring Courtney's vision.

Everything happened too quickly. No one had time to react. No one expected Courtney to be so ruthless towards herself.

"Courtney!" Lester's pupils contracted. He quickly supported falling Courtney and angrily shouted, "What are you doing!" © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

His sister was too stubborn. She would rather smash the bottle on herself than apologize. He really didn't know where she got her stubbornness from!

Courtney leaned against Lester, took a breath, and looked at Francis, asking, "Is that enough? If your mistress is still not satisfied, I can do it again."

As she was about to grab another bottle, Lester stopped her.

Lester also got furious. He looked at Francis with red eyes and questioned, "Francis, we've known each other for almost thirty years. Are you sure you want to make tonight the start of us against each other?"

As Lilian entered this box, she just happened to hear Lester's angry words.

She hurriedly ran to Courtney. Seeing the blood on her forehead, she had guilt and self-blaming in her eyes, and her tears welled up.

Courtney saw Lilian and asked weakly, "Why did you come?"

Francis frowned and asked, "Who told you to come here?"

Michael, in the corner, stuttered and said, "Emm... I... I asked her to come."

Lilian turned her head and glanced at Francis and Julian beside him. They sat together like a pair of amazing couple.

She walked quickly towards Julian.

Julian hugged Francis's arm, not sure if it was out of fear or to assert ownership towards Francis.

Francis frowned, and his gaze followed Lilian.

Lilian stopped in front of Julian, and Julian raised her chin, looking at Lilian with a defiant gaze.

After a few seconds, Lilian bowed to Julian.

Lilian signed to her, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. Ms. Quinn, please forgive me."

Julian turned her head to check Francis's expression secretly. But other than noticing that he was frowning, she couldn't figure out his other emotions.

"What are you gesturing? I don't understand," Julian muttered in a low voice, expressing her dissatisfaction.

She couldn't understand sign language, but she had known Lilian for a long time. So, in fact, she could understand basic sign language expressions. "I'm sorry" was the most commonly used sign by Lilian, and Julian was just pretending not to understand.

Julian wants to escalate the situation even further. It would be best if Francis and Lester turned against each other. If this news spreads, no one in Linkland City would dare to underestimate her.

Lilian bit her lip and turned to look at Francis, and her eyes were filled with pleading.

Francis remained silent, but had a chilling aura surround him.

She walked over to Francis and crouched down beside him, shaking his arm, not in a flirtatious manner, but in a desperate plea.

Courtney tried to intervene, but Lester stopped her. Lester pressed a tissue against her wound, but it quickly soaked through with blood.

Julian held onto Francis' arm tightly, afraid that he might soften towards this dummy.

Lilian looked up, with tears streaming down her face, appearing pitiful.

Using sign language, Lilian pleaded, "Frank, I won't work at the coffee shop anymore. I won't go there ever again. Can you please stop making it difficult for Courtney?"

Francis stared at her slender fingers, and he remembered when Lilian first learned sign language, he had asked her what the sign that she just did again meant.

Lilian used sign language to tell him that the sign meant "brother" in sign language.

Only Lilian knew that the gesture was his name, not calling him "brother".

She never regarded him as her brother.

The atmosphere in the room became terrifyingly quiet, as if time was frozen.

Everyone watched Lilian, witnessing her groveling before Francis and being humiliated in front of her husband's mistress.