Wife is a Lawyer novel Chapter 36

Peter had to leave though his anger was still burning.

Not until he left did Adriana broke away from Alvin’s hug. With her head down, she showed no gut to face him, “Alvin, thank you…”

“Don’t mention it. That’s what I should do.” He touched her head caringly and added, “Remember to tell me if you are in need.”

“Alvin, thank you for what you’ve done. But…you should know that we can’t be together…” Adriana raised her head to look at him with pure eyes, “We are born to live different lives. Though I have no understanding about the Henderson family, I still know that there used to be an engagement between you and one of the girls from that family. All I hope is that you will develop a pleasing relationship with her.”

Though Alvin was a charming gentleman being nice to her, she was aware that she needed to hold her own bottom line—never should she drive a wedge between Alvin and that girl.

“Adriana, what I said to you just now has all come from the bottom of my heart. I have only met her once many years ago. And I didn’t like her. Instead, I love you. Whatever. I don’t care if there is such an engagement. I would like to marry you. Whatever it takes! Besides, I have a brother, who will shoulder the responsibility to lead the family. So I am totally carefree. If my family disagree with my decision, I am willing to leave the family forever.”

Actually, Alvin hated the atmosphere in his family ever since he was kid. That was why he made himself a common professor and moved out of his family.

All he wanted was a simple life away from his family.

He clenched her wrist hard and confessed to his feelings today.

However, from the perspective of Adriana, it felt like a heavy impact.

It was impossible for her to develop a relationship with Alvin.

Not even a try!

“Alvin, you are getting drunk. Why don’t you go home to sleep? We can have a talk tomorrow. I am tired…I wanna rest…” Adriana broke away from his grip, turned around to enter the bedroom and closed the door.

Meanwhile, Peter had just walked out of the community. Distraught, he started smoking by the road while leaning against a streetlight. His face was soon covered with pale smoke.

However, he couldn’t get Adriana’s face out of his mind.

“Damn it!” he sighted and frowned. Agitation overwhelmed his face.

His peaceful life started to surge up with trouble as soon as Adriana showed up.

What was worse, he could do nothing about it.

Though all ladies appeared repellent to him, he found that Adriana was the exception, whom he had been thinking about during the past four years.

Alvin had been an innocent friend of his, who had never refuted him ever since they knew each other. However, today, Alvin actually argued with him for the sake of Adriana.

Actually, Peter didn’t feel like blaming it on Alvin. Instead, he felt guilty for him.

After all, Alvin had never been in love for all these years. Now he finally got his own dream lover. However, Peter was still entangling with her.

So tricky!

“Peter, I know you will linger around.”

Alvin saw him smoking as soon as he walked out of the community. He smiled and continued, “I am sorry for being so aggressive.”

“It’s okay. That’s what a man should do.” Peter smiled to reply. He shook his head and handed over a cigarette, “That little boy finally grows tough.”

“Peter…”

“Come on…” Peter felt a bit awkward when noticing Alvin’s restrained manner. But meanwhile, it meant that Alvin truly cared about Adriana That was why he stayed cautious when facing Peter.

“But Peter...you deserve my respect…”

“Come on, let’s me pay you a drink.” Peter walked over to hug him. Then they walked to the parking lot and drove to a bar.

Meanwhile, Theresa, awake for hours, had been waiting for Peter’s arrival. However, she still got no message from him even though it was 23:00 at this moment. What was worse, no one answered whenever she tried to make a call to him.

While browsing social media on her phone, she suddenly got a message from the snoop she hired.

It was a series of pictures, in which she could see that Adriana entered the building of the Alston Group at noon but she didn’t leave until the night fell.

What was worse, she saw Peter head to an apartment. When he appeared in the picture again, he was smoking alone.

While the apartment was exactly the one where Adriana just moved in.

“Adriana! It’s you again!” driven by madness, she clenched her phone as hard as she could.

It suddenly occurred to her that she happened to hear Peter talking to someone when she returned to take her shoes after a fierce quarrel with him.

She broke in and questioned him who he was talking to. Peter just said he was speaking on the phone. However, he had been standing in front of his closet. Now Theresa seemed to realize that Adriana must be hiding herself in the closet.

No wonder Peter turned her down. It turned out that Adriana hooked up with him.

“Keep your eyes on her!” Theresa texted to reply.

Soon, she made a call to Adriana. Not until quite a while later did she answered.

“Hey, Theresa, it’s so late at night. What are you calling for?”

“Hmmm, nothing serious. I just wanna know where you have been today. Have you seen Peter? He didn’t answer my call for the whole day.”

“You mean Mr. Alston? No, I didn’t see him today.” Adriana replied without hesitation.

After all, Theresa hadn’t known the truth. It would only grow her suspicion if she learned that Peter had met Adriana secretly for so many times.

“Okay…”

“Hey, Theresa, do you wanna hang out with me tomorrow? I got something to tell you.”

“Tomorrow? Okay.”

Adriana stayed up for the whole night. She got up almost at noon. Then she washed herself up and got dressed.

Today she picked a dress with stand-up collar.

However, the hickey on her neck could barely be hidden beneath the collar if she turned her head even a bit.

But she got no choice but to put on some foundation to cover it.

When she reached the café, she noticed that Theresa had arrived.

“Hey, Theresa, sorry to keep you waiting.”

Adriana smiled. But perhaps it was because of what happened between her and Peter yesterday, she somehow noticed that Theresa seemed a bit weird while looking at her.