Chapter 115 Tricked
Ava glanced at Lyra across from her, raised her delicate eyebrow slightly, then looked at the wine glass in front of her, and finally fixed her gaze on Mia behind them.
She curved her lips slightly.
Some people always wrote their bad intentions all over their faces, yet naively thought others couldn't tell.
Ava smiled imperceptibly and reached for the wine glass beside her, slowly moving it toward Lyra's glass.
A gleam of triumph flashed in Lyra's eyes.
Mia watched as victory seemed within reach...
The glasses made a soft clinking sound.
Lyra's glass tilted directly, and the liquid inside spilled toward Ava's dress.
"Watch out..."
Her intention was way too obvious. Even Hayden, a man, could immediately sense something was off with these women's little tricks.
Ava smiled calmly, lifted her hand directly, and as the glasses collided, she sent all the red wine in her own glass splashing toward Lyra.
Lyra stared at Ava in shock, not yet processing what had happened.
Looking down at her dress now stained in patches of varying shades, she began trembling uncontrollably the next moment.
Lyra stammered, "You, you, ah..."
Ava casually rubbed her ear.
"Sorry, my hand slipped. I didn't mean to. Are you okay?" Ava asked with an innocent expression.
"Look at me, I'm so careless. Tell you what, I'll pay for Ms. Cole's dress. Go get cleaned up first."
Looking at Ava's smiling face, Lyra saw nothing but provocation. She was furious.
That bitch had clearly done it on purpose just now, yet had the nerve to say it was an accident. Bitch, bitch!
Lyra's anger surged up fiercely from the bottom of her heart. She gritted her teeth and glared at Ava with wide, furious eyes.
Ava coldly withdrew her gaze. She had simply used their usual tricks against them, and they already couldn't take it.
"Ava, you, you bitch, shameless, you did it on purpose, you deliberately tried to embarrass me." Lyra screamed while grabbing a glass of red wine from a waiter's tray, about to throw it at Ava.
Suddenly her wrist froze, caught in mid-air by someone's grip. Lyra looked up in alarm.
"What do you think you're doing?" Hayden's handsome face showed little emotion, but his voice was completely cold.
"...Mr. Thomas..."
Lyra's movement remained frozen in place, her eyes trembling constantly in their sockets.
Hayden had completely shed his previous playboy carelessness. His cold, gloomy appearance was truly terrifying.
Lyra's wrist trembled as she looked to Mia for help. Mia bit her lip, cursing "useless" in her mind, and stepped forward with a weak, helpless expression. "Mr. Thomas, please let go of Lyra first. It was just a small misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding?"
Hayden coldly flung Lyra's hand away.
He frowned, pulled out two tissues, and carefully wiped his long fingers.
As if he had touched something dirty.
Mia yanked the dazed Lyra and pulled her behind herself.
This idiot was more trouble than she was worth. She couldn't even handle such a small thing and got so embarrassed by Ava, and now she kept jumping right into Ava's traps.
Hayden's deep eyes glanced heavily at Mia, then turned to Ava.
"Ava, are you okay?"
"I can still see through their little tricks."
Mia stared at Ava with wide eyes.
So Ava had figured out what they were up to from the start. She had seen right through them.
And they had been jumping around in front of her like clowns, looking absolutely ridiculous.
Ava deserved to die.
If it weren't for all the people present, Mia really wanted to rush up and kill Ava.
Considering too many people were watching, Mia forced a smile. "Lyra, go get cleaned up. After all, Ms. Davis didn't mean it."
Hearing Mia's words, Lyra couldn't help but stamp her feet. What do you mean Ava didn't mean it? Easy for her to say when it didn't happen to her. "She did it on purpose! She deliberately threw wine on me. That bitch was trying to embarrass me."
Hearing this, Ava lightly raised her eyebrow, a cold smile on her lips, and said with feigned weakness, "Ms. Cole, why are you accusing me? I really didn't mean it. If you want to throw it back at me, go ahead."
Hearing Ava say this made Lyra even more furious.
What was Ava pretending for?
"Ava, you... you, I..." Lyra looked around for a wine glass. She was about to lose her mind. Why did someone like Ava exist?
"What the hell? That's too much. She didn't do it on purpose, and she apologized and even offered to pay for it. Her attitude was pretty good. She got cursed at a few times and didn't even get mad, but now she's actually looking for a glass to throw back? Does she have to be so petty?"
"Exactly, that's too much. She keeps calling her a bitch. She has no manners or class at all."
"So awful. She already apologized. Doesn't she know to forgive when you can?"
Bystanders always tend to side with the underdog.
Although Lyra was the one who got wine thrown on her, she didn't gain anyone's sympathy. Her repeated insults toward Ava made her look incredibly rude and unreasonable in others' eyes.
Meanwhile, Ava's vulnerable appearance made people think she was the one being bullied.
This was exactly the trick Lyra and Mia usually used.
Mia, finding Ava's words incredibly familiar, was furious.
She absolutely hated it.
Ava was giving them a taste of their own medicine, using their methods to make them suffer.
Ava wasn't as indifferent and harmless as she appeared on the surface. Her scheming and cunning ran deep.
That idiot Lyra could be played to death by her.
Mia didn't want to be embarrassed along with her. She yanked Lyra back with an unpleasant expression. "Enough, Lyra. Stop being so unreasonable. Ms. Davis has already apologized to you. This matter ends here."
Mia's words completely set off Lyra's suppressed anger. Lyra turned on Mia and yelled, "Easy for you to say! You wanted to mess with her yourself. You've been using me as your pawn day after day, and now you're playing the good guy here. Isn't that disgusting?"
Mia's face looked terrible. She never expected that Lyra, who had always been obedient to her, would dare speak to her like this.
The people watching nearby immediately looked like they understood.
So that's how it is!
Those gossiping voices kept reaching Mia's ears. Mia felt utterly humiliated. She closed her eyes hard and said through gritted teeth, "Shut up. What are you babbling about? You're drunk. I'm taking you downstairs to rest."
"I'm not drunk! Let go of me! You're both bitches, bitches!"
Lyra's angry, embarrassed voice was incredibly grating.
Mia was about to faint from anger.
Watching this scene, even Hayden couldn't help but laugh. These two idiots were truly entertaining.
Hayden was too lazy to watch these two fools anymore.
Dealing with these people, Hayden really felt Ava could destroy them with one hand.
So Joshua's concern about him coming early to help Ava so she wouldn't get bullied was completely unnecessary.
Since she didn't need him, he should go find something fun to cleanse his soul.
"Ava, did you bring the two kids out today?" Hayden asked expectantly, rubbing his hands together.
Ava smiled lightly. "I did."
"Where are they? Where are they?" Hayden really missed those kids.
"Don't know where they ran off to play. Do you need them for something?"
"To play! I want to play with them."
A guy in his early twenties could hang out with five-year-olds?
Ava looked up and scanned Hayden. "They're playing with mud. You want to join?"
"Why not?"
Playing with mud? He loved playing with mud!
Ava was amused by him. "Alright then. I don't know where they ran off to. You'll probably have to look for them."
"Okay."
At this moment, Finn and Cleo, who had run off somewhere to play with mud, had already taken over Veridian Heights' surveillance room...
Finn's sharp eyes stared at the monitors, his gaze locked on, the corners of his mouth curving up slightly.
Someone was about to be in trouble!