A Love Trap novel Chapter 76

Shivers ran down her spine as Lena felt embarrassed after hearing what Greyson had said. Her ever glamorous face grew scarlet red as it flushed with shame. She couldn't help but give Greyson a sharp look.

At first, Lena, who at the instant set her eyes on Greyson, felt a surge of infatuation rising from deep within her heart. She presumed him to be a clever and charming man, and usually, her presumptions never failed her.

Moreover, when Greyson spoke to Ashley, his voice was too soft and inaudible to be heard by Lena. Therefore, Lena had done her silly trick again this time to make people misunderstand the relationship between Greyson and Ashley. Every time they were together in a crowd such as parties or gatherings, Lena wanted so much that everyone would misunderstand Ashley, and look at her as the villain in the story. She hated Ashley so much up to the extent that she would throw mud at her in front of so many people.

However, nobody would have expected that Greyson would give such a remark and turned things around greatly. Everyone was surprised at what he had done.

Those people shopping in the supermarket heard Greyson's words and believed most of what he said.

When they turned to see the fierce look on Lena's face, they found neither gentleness nor delicacy on that beautiful face anymore.

So they all came to realize that they were fooled by Lena's act. This time, the way they looked at her was no longer kind and sympathetic.

Meanwhile, Raymond was totally astounded after hearing Greyson's words. The idea that Greyson called that man his sister's boyfriend kept playing on his mind. However, he was not aware of the deeper meaning behind Greyson's words.

Letting the words sync in through him, Raymond calmed down and thought about it carefully. He would investigate the matter and find answers to his questions. 'Since when did Ashley have such a brother?' Raymond couldn't help asking himself.

With her eyebrows crossed, Ashley was also a little puzzled by Greyson's words. She thought to herself, 'Boyfriend?

Did the two meet? Then when did he see Andrew? What's more, how could Andrew be my boyfriend?' Despite thinking hard, Ashley found no way to get answers to her questions. As she came to herself from deep thinking and raised her head, she noticed the anger and unwillingness on Lena's face and the ironical amazement on Raymond's face.

Likewise, she found those who had blamed her were all turning their heads to condemn Lena. So Ashley just kept her silence and swallowed back all the words she had intended to say. There were noises rising from the crowd. One voice was heard saying, "See? What did I tell you? That girl is not that kind of person. You were just judging her from the scene. You just didn't believe me, then now here comes the truth."

Another person cut in by saying, "When the two girls met each other, that girl was quite pleased and called the other girl affectionately? However, what she said earlier was all against the girl. She seemed to be acting to mislead us to misunderstand the girl on purpose by saying those words.

If she really takes the girl as her sister, how could she say such words?" Then a voice corresponded, "I agree with you. That seems to be the truth."

People around nodded their heads as they tried to remember what had just happened minutes ago.

Some people began to look at Lena with aversion and contempt. They just hated and dreaded such kind of person who was a hypocrite and vicious. She was so ruthless even to frame other innocent people.

"Miss, Sir, we are so sorry to misunderstand you.

We didn't mean that. We just took what that lady said and assumed they were all true. We are sorry if we have misunderstood your relationship," Somebody walked towards Ashley and Greyson and uttered an apology. Then more and more people were ushered by their conscience for such behavior and one by one they went on to say sorry to Ashley and Greyson. They echoed, "Ma'am, Sir, we're very sorry."

Both Ashley and Greyson were overwhelmed to hear the apologies from those people.

"This is not your fault,"

Greyson said. Then he gave a long sigh before saying, "These things happened from time to time. Misunderstanding such as this is inevitable. Every time, as long as this aunt sees my sister, she tends to tell stories leading people to misunderstand my sister..." Lena clearly heard what Greyson said and her face was all distorted out of anger. Her eyes were focused on Greyson, seeming to burn a hole on his body.

While gnashing her teeth, Lena thought, 'Aunt?

How could he call me aunt? Absurd!

I am two years younger than Ashley. How dare him to call me aunt?

While what did he just call Ashley? Sister? How ridiculous!' With a great gloom in her eyes, Lena turned to glare at Greyson. She had no idea that Ashley had such an annoying brother.

She doubted, 'There must be something strange going on here!' "Oh, auntie, why do you look at me with that kind of awful look?

It makes me really scared. But, I didn't say anything wrong, did I?" asked Greyson with a loud and booming voice. He seemed to have noticed Lena's unfriendly look. As he finished his words, he let out an odd scream as if to be frightened by Lena. Hurriedly, he walked to hide behind Ashley like a child afraid of ghosts. Ashley kept Greyson behind her back and gave Lena a cold stare.

People hearing Greyson's scream could not resist turning their heads to see what Lena had done. Just as they had expected, her distorted face and eyes full of hatred came into their sight.

There were no longer grievance and weakness on her face. She had totally lost all control and showed to the public the real her.

Sensing that everyone's eyes were fixed on her, Lena then became sober and remembered that they were in a supermarket with so many people around. She was rather disturbed when she realized what her facial expressions were and how bad did she look. Within seconds, the expressions on her face vanished totally. The feigned kindness and innocence were soon portrayed in her face. She looked at Ashley with grief and called her sister.

Her expression showed that she had something to say, but she kept her silence for some reason. Seconds later, she seemed to make up her mind and again looked at Ashley before saying, "Sister, we have lived together since we were kids. But I don't know that you have a brother. What happened to us?

And just now he called me aunt! How could that be? How could he be so impolite?" What Lena said happened to remind Raymond that Ashley had no brother at all.

He pondered confusedly, 'So who is the boy next to Ashley? Is it possible that what Lena has said was true?' Raymond found no ways to help himself solve his puzzlement, so he set his sight on Ashley, hoping to find something helpful. People around them all heard Lena's words that she had been living with Ashley since their childhood and she hadn't known that Ashley had a brother.

Also, they figured out why she said that Greyson was impolite. She was implying that Greyson and Ashley were working together to put her into such humiliation.

However, those people had already seen Lena's true colors. No matter what she said, they would not believe in her anymore.

"Sister?

Lived together?" Ashley asked with a sneer. "I am the last person who would want you to be a sister. How could you be a sister to me if all your life what you have been doing is framing me? Treating me bad at any time in any place you want? Is that what a sister supposed to do?" she added with a trembled voice.

"Lena, do you think you know whether I have a brother or not? More than that, you said that we had grown up together. Why is it that I can't remember that we used to grow up together?" Ashley was so infuriated that she couldn't help herself from cussing.

Lena's following words were all stopped by Ashley's response. She stared at Ashley and twisted her hands in her skirt without saying a word.

As people in the crowd had heard Greyson's words and seen Lena's wrongdoings, now what Ashley had said helped them to have a clear picture of how cruel Lena was in their minds.

They got to conclude that Lena must have always spoken ill of Ashley on purpose to make other people judge Ashley as the nasty one. However, they also observed that Ashley was not good at explaining and defending herself so she must have been mistreated not just once but for many times.

After realizing that almost everyone cast sight on Lena with great resentment and disdain. Lena was taken aback. People were showing their anger and discontentment.

Receiving all the negative looks, Lena was extremely infuriated as she nearly couldn't find her breath.

She shouted in her heart, 'All this resentment and disdain should have been received by Ashley! I don't deserve these. This is not what I have expected! It's not fair.'

Greyson desired to stir up the trouble, he was more like a little monster than a man in this condition. He added, "Aunt, please stop looking at me with this kind of look. I might have a nightmare tonight."

"Lena," called Raymond angrily. The expression on Raymond's face was not good either. Now that Lena was his fiancée, she thought she would have someone at her back. However, what she had done also made Raymond lose his face.

"Raymond, I... I didn't..." Lena said in a low voice as if she was about to shed tears the next second. Successfully, she did squeeze out a tear or two, looked at Raymond with grievance and seized the best time to throw herself into Raymond's hug.

Raymond felt sorry for the humiliation his fiancée had to deal. His heart ached when he saw that Lena was crying so heavily. Considering her grief, he didn't say anything and just consoled her by returning her embrace. What he could do was hold Lena's shoulders tightly. Before he led Lena to leave the supermarket, he looked deeply into Ashley's eyes as if to read her mind.

When their figures were out of sight, Greyson turned to the crowd and said with his sweet voice, "I want to thank all of you. Without your help, my sister and I would have been made to be misunderstood again by that malicious aunt. Thank you for your time, we really appreciate it."

The crowd applauded seeing that Greyson was so sweet and clever. They all felt quite pleased with him. Although they were a little shy to be praised by such a gentleman they just waved their hands and dispersed one by one. They were all beaming as they left.