Dearest brother?

He let out a dry chuckle "You're threatening me?"

"No. How can I threaten the great Devon Montero?. I'm merely making a preposition that would save both of us a lot of stress"

He dropped the pretense and grabbed unto her chin. "I would not say it again Gisele. Return home!"

Gisele also dropped the smile, she glanced at him blankly, still a hint of ice was in her gaze. She slapped the finger holding her chin away and drank her wine in one gulp. "You've made your choice, now I'll make mine." She turned to walk away but paused second later "Ahh one simple notice,, Mr Devon, you might want to avoid me for the rest of the night, lest you get people digging into our affairs. I would not be held accountable when people find out we are married like this"

With that she turned and began walking away, just in time to bump into Alan who was returning back to meet her.

"Hey Sweetheart, you're leaving already" Alan asked trying to stop her from walking away.

"Nope just taking a break. You have fun" she passed her empty glass cup to him and walked away without looking back. Alan didn't chase after her cause he could see Devon's thundering face, he did not need a soothsayer to know, his brother had a few things to say to him. He also had some things to say to him too. He had cut a glimpse of Gisele and him talking and he was curious to know what Devon had said to her.

"What did you say to her?" He went straight to the point.

Devon sneered and walked closer "You really don't listen do you? I told you already, stay away from what belongs to me"

"And that is? Would I get blamed for doing complete nothing now? Or don't tell me my dearest brother wouldn't even let me fall in love with a girl anymore?" Alan questioned uncertainly. He had no idea what Devon was talking about. Nevertheless, his mindless choice of falling in love with Gisele only further enraged Devon. He stepped forward and clasped the collar of Alan's shirt.

"Stay away from my wife!" He yelled in hushed tones.

Alan found this funny to listen to. Infact he let out a humorous laugh. He gets Devon paranoia of ordering him to stay away from his wife when he visited but suddenly reminding of that now was uncalled for.

"Seriously brother, are you really that weary of me that seeing me with a girl sends you in a panic spree? Or perhaps do you have a problem with seeing me in a romance?" Alan asked while still chuckling.

Devon frowned unpleasantly "I couldn't care less but find a your own girl"

"i have" Alan refuted "so why are you hell-bent on stopping me?"

His provocative tone suddenly made Devon lose all sense of rationality, he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed unto Alan's collar. His eyes spitting fire hotter than volcanic magma.

"SHE. IS. MINE! MY WIFE!" he spat out, enunciating each words while pointing at Gisele's leaving figure. Sounds of gasps echoed from the crowd, shock and flashing surprise took over everyone's expressions.

Right before their eyes the ever cool Taoist_ yet Demonic CEO Devon lost his temperament and appeared to be in an angered state because of a woman. No one could hear what the two of them had discussed but their minds were enough to fill in the gaps, especially when Devon was suddenly pointing in the direction the lady had left.

Alan equally had the same expression on his face. He did not misunderstand, Devon was really talking about the girl that just left but he was also wrong, he wasn't talking about her because of her but because of her!

Gisele was his wife, his wife was Gisele! She was the same girl!

The knowledge and realisation settled in quite abruptly, leaving the poor actor speechless and in a daze. The girl he had coincidentally been involved with and was trying from his left and right to get her infatuated with him was actually her! His long lost sister and now sister-in-law!

What a bogus coincidence!

"What is going on here?" A steady voice interrupted their public charade. The two boys turned and standing there was another female they were both familiar with.

"Mother" Devon called out and let go of Alan's collar. Alan on the other hand did not acknowledge her, he was still locked up in his disbeliy and surprise. He adjusted his outfit and directly and walked away, still with a look of daze on his face.

Not a believer, he had one object at heart_ to find out the truth from the horses mouth.

After series of failed attempts to know what had caused the two of them to forsake their reputation and have a headlock in such a public place, Claudia finally gave up and decided to let the matter go.

"Come with me, I want to introduce you to someone" She requested stopping the young man from running off to go confront his wife at home. Devon was unhappy with his mother's request but could only wordlessly follow her.

With a gentle smile, Claudia led him away under the eyes of multitudes. She had spent hours looking for Gisele and when she finally saw the girl, she insisted on leaving. She could only plead for her to wait for a few minutes so that she could introduce her son to her, who knew she would meet her son— technically her Son's almost beating up themselves in public. It would be a lie if she said she wasn't curious to know what happened but her son was being tight-lipped and she couldn't go asking her stepson because she still resented him a little bit.

Surely she could only wait to go back home and speak to grandfather about it. Didn't Gisele ask her to trust the Old man? She would trust him to bring justice to whatever the problem was.

"Claudia you're back!" Madison greeted as Claudia rejoined the group. Claudia eyes helplessly scanned the group of people seated, expecting to see that beautiful face and innocent eyes but it was nowhere to be found.

Madison seemed to notice her searching gaze "Are you looking for Xiao G? Well she got a call and had to leave urgently, so I asked Harold to drop her off. She also asked me to relay her apologies" It seems this Mrs Vice President had also been robed in treating Gisele fondly, she had already changed her mode of address, plus asking her Noble son to be a chauffeur to a random girl is surely not something Madam Vice president would have done.

Claudia immediately became dispirited, the girl had gone without being introduced to Devon and she had really looked up to seeing them interact for the first time.

"It must have really been an emergency, I'll give her a call later" She sighed and took her seat.

Seeing that the young bachelor had joined the sitting, the elderly Ladies were excited. They each began bombarding Devon with different conversation topics but the young man was not interested even in the slightest.

"Bro Devon!" A certain energetic voice broke into their direction. Vera was skipping happily from a distance to where they were unannounced.

"Bro Devon long time no see! How are you?" She asked excitedly, coquettishly twirling the helm of her top between her fingers. Her presence was uninvited to that sitting but she didn't seem to mind, her whole concentration on Devon. If she could fully get this young man's attention then who would dare not give her face. Even these people giving her strange looks would be forced to speak cautiously and offer smiles.

Stacy hurried to meet her daughter with a flustered expression "please pardon my daughter's intrusion, she's merely overexcited to see her dearest brother. These young ones can be a bit out of line sometimes"

Dearest brother?

Who didn't know what she was hinting at? Her explanation to elaborate the relationship between the two couldn't be any more obvious than it already was. She might also had sounded apologetic but she made no love to take her daughter away, Instead she stood there and continued to watch the discussion go on.

"I was just asking Aunty of you, did she tell you? Is that why you're here?" the girl asked gleefully, Half leaning on the young man's arm. Truly with Devon's silence and her infectious smile, they looked like a pair of lovely childhood sweethearts. If only they knew that Devon hadn't even heard a thing from all this girl had been saying.

His thin fingers flew across the screen of his phone rapidly as he gave out incessant orders to the search group he had initially sent to look for his daring wife. He needed her back home and behind door, so till they said she was in their custody, he would not be able to quell his anger he was feeling inside. Eventually he saw that four words he was waiting for.

'She is with us'

He heaved a sigh of relief then looked up, Everyone seemed to be looking at him for with peculiar gaze for reasons he could not say. A puff of hot breath also fell on his arm. He looked sideways and a young lady was practically almost leaning into his arm. A disgusting smile also pasted on her face.

How long has she been like this?