Chapter 60 He Needs to Restrain Himself
Looking at the tall and handsome Samuel, Yasmin's breath even stopped for two seconds.
A man like this was someone Yasmin would never dare to dream about, no matter when.
But thinking about how Samuel had actually protected Amelia that day, her expression turned cold.
For some reason, Samuel had taken Amelia's side.
She didn't want Samuel to notice her, in case he remembered what happened at the welcome party that day.
However, at this moment, Geraldo spoke up: "Yasmin, let me introduce you to today's host. He's a young friend of mine, maybe you two will hit it off."
Yasmin instinctively wanted to refuse.
But then she thought about how the Richardson family and the Crawford family were close.
Maybe that day Samuel wasn't trying to help Amelia specifically, but simply because of family connections, he was helping the Richardson family.
If she could change Samuel's impression of her, then the Richardson family would lose their last support.
With this thought, Yasmin didn't refuse and nodded in agreement.
Yasmin's friend also wanted to go along, but since Geraldo didn't mention her, she felt too embarrassed to follow and had to make an excuse: "Yasmin, you go ahead, I'll look around."
"Okay." Yasmin nodded and followed Geraldo's steps.
......
Samuel was currently standing in front of a painting, admiring it.
It was an oil painting titled "Winter River Moon."
The artist's name was noted in the upper left corner—Taylor Adams.
Taylor was a very mysterious oil painting master. Few people knew what he looked like, and people didn't even know if Taylor was male or female.
However, the outside world generally assumed Taylor was a man.
Because Taylor's paintings all had a very bold and grand style, people in the industry felt that a woman couldn't paint works with such powerful presence and vast scope.
Samuel had always admired Taylor.
He had even paid a high price at an auction to buy all of Taylor's works that day.
This painting for the charity auction was one he really liked.
If it weren't for charity, he wouldn't have put it up for auction.
But,
Looking at the name on this painting, Samuel inexplicably thought of the prescription Amelia had written for Roman that day at The Sullivan Manor.
The handwriting on it looked remarkably like Taylor's.
But then Samuel shook his head mockingly at himself.
He must be obsessed, to associate everything he saw with Amelia.
Counting it up, they'd known each other for less than a week.
He seemed to care about her a bit too much.
He didn't dare to think.
If after the surveillance video was restored to high definition, the woman in his heart wasn't Amelia, he didn't know what he would do.
Perhaps before the video was successfully restored, he needed to restrain his feelings.
But Samuel forgot that in this world, the things you can't control, besides sneezing, are feelings.
The human heart is beyond one's own control.
"Samuel."
Samuel was about to call and ask if Amelia had arrived when Geraldo's voice sounded behind him.
For this charity exhibition, Geraldo had contributed many of his works for free.
Samuel turned around with a smile, but the moment his gaze touched on Yasmin beside Geraldo, it instantly turned cold.
"This is?"
Geraldo didn't notice the coldness in Samuel's eyes, because Samuel always had a cool and distant manner.
He asked Samuel with a smile: "You like my teacher's painting?"
Samuel raised his eyebrows in surprise, glanced at the painting behind him, and asked: "Taylor is your teacher?"
Geraldo nodded with a smile.
"Yes, it's my honor to be her student. Back then I hit a bottleneck in my painting, and thanks to meeting her, I had a breakthrough and my painting skills improved to a whole new level."
When mentioning Taylor, Geraldo's eyes showed indescribable admiration.
But he quickly remembered his purpose and introduced to Samuel: "This is a very talented young lady I met at an oil painting competition not long ago. Today I specially invited her to come back and participate in the competition."
Yasmin quickly put on what she thought was her best smile and greeted him: "Mr. Crawford."
She thought that even if Samuel didn't like her because of what happened that day, he wouldn't disrespect Geraldo.
After all, Geraldo held a significant position in the oil painting circle.
However, she didn't expect that Samuel wouldn't even give Geraldo face.
He directly ignored Yasmin and said to Geraldo: "Mr. McGinnis, I know you cherish talent, but sometimes, we should keep our eyes open."
Yasmin's expression froze, her smile instantly stiffening on her face.
Geraldo beside her was obviously stunned too.
Before Geraldo could ask what Samuel meant by this, Samuel spoke first: "I still have some things to take care of, please enjoy yourself, Mr. McGinnis."
With that, he walked right past Yasmin and headed toward the door.
Just now, he had received a message from Amelia.
She had arrived.
Geraldo watched Samuel leave, frowning as he looked at Yasmin.
"Yasmin, do you have a grudge with Samuel?"
Although Samuel was cool and distant with everyone, he at least maintained basic courtesy.
This was the first time he'd seen Samuel treat someone with this attitude.
It seemed like he even had an opinion about him too.
This made Geraldo's attitude toward Yasmin cool down as well.
Yasmin lowered her eyes, showing an innocent expression.
"We don't have a grudge, it's just because of my sister, so Mr. Crawford doesn't like me."
"Your sister?"
Yasmin nodded pitifully and said: "You probably know something about my background. Mr. Crawford is very close to my sister. But my sister really hates me, so he probably doesn't like me because of her."
Geraldo did know about Yasmin's background, and had heard people mention that the Richardson family had kicked Yasmin out after finding their real daughter.
He frowned and said: "Why does your sister hate you?"
Yasmin wiped away tears that didn't exist and said: "Because my brothers all like me more than her, so she thinks I stole her brothers away. That's also why she forced the family to choose between her and me."
The more she spoke, the more hoarse her voice became, as if she was on the verge of breaking down.
Geraldo's frown deepened.
"This is outrageous! Being adopted wasn't your decision. You were just a child back then, and it was the Richardson family who willingly adopted you. How can she hate you for this? This is way too petty!"
Yasmin smiled bitterly.
"You don't need to be angry about this. I've already accepted it. After leaving home, I can support myself."
Geraldo felt very sorry for this strong Yasmin.
But this was ultimately a family matter, and it wasn't appropriate for him to interfere.
After a moment of silence, Geraldo made a decision.
"Yasmin, would you like to be my student?"
Yasmin's heart leaped with joy.
She hadn't expected that her attempt to cover up her behavior and smear Amelia would bring such a huge surprise!