The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 1429 Is She Your Friend

For some reason, Holley felt Wood was laughable and stupid as she watched how hard he tried to act. However, she was quite patient that she carried on with her own act as well.

Thus, Wood felt that Holley must've had a thing for him. He approached her again and tried to grab her waist.

"Why the rush? You haven't even asked me my name, who I am, and where I'm from—and you just want me to be your girlfriend?" Holley said slowly. Upon hearing those words, Wood looked at her and realized she had a point.

"Alright, then. May I have your name, please?" he asked.

"My family name is Ye. Oh, I think that you asked about who my boyfriend is, right? His name is Black Hu," Holley responded. Wood was quite happy when Holley told him her name, but when he heard her boyfriend's name, he got confused.

'Black Hu? I feel like I've heard that name somewhere, 'Wood thought.

'Black Hu... Hu...' He kept thinking.

Suddenly, something occurred to him. His eyes went wide open all of a sudden as he collected his thoughts. 'Black Hu, the young master of Hu Group? His father is Rex Hu, the CEO of Hu Group, who is not only connected to gangs but also connected to the police. Oh my God, is that the Black Hu I know? It would be so unlikely that they are the same person. They're not!' he pondered.

The mere thought of Black's background made his fat body tremble with fear.

His reactions didn't go unnoticed by Holley, but she just mentally sneered.

'Yes, in this city, those people who have power and high social status are treated completely differently by everyone. They can look down upon anyone. Besides, only a name, a single name of two words, can terrify people. They wouldn't even dare to mess up with anyone related to these names, ' Holley mused.

'And I'm just a person who hides behind other people's names. I'm just using Hu Group's name to intimidate other people, so what makes me different from them?' Holley thought bitterly.

The memories from that house the other night resurfaced in her mind again. 'One day, I'll make them pay. They will pay for all the humiliation and suffering, and I'll make them pay double,' Holley resolved to herself.

"Beauty, you are not lying to me, are you?" Wood asked suspiciously. It was clear that he wasn't sure about what Holley just said.

Holley chuckled. "Lying? You really think I'm lying?"

Wood still eyed Holley dubiously. He knew that this beautiful lady wore fancy clothes and makeup, and that she wasn't an ordinary woman. She was rich and elegant. But, Wood thought that it was impossible when Holley said that she was the girlfriend of the young master of Hu Group.

'The young master of Hu Group had studied abroad, and didn't came back until recently. He went back home to take over his father's company, so it's impossible for him to have a girlfriend so quickly like this,' Wood thought.

'Impossible, it's impossible. She must be lying to me. I don't believe it,' he thought again.

With that thought in mind, he put his hand on Holley's waist without hesitation. His pungent mouth almost touched Holley's neck.

"You'd better not touch me. This is a kind warning," Holley hissed. However, Wood just laughed mockingly at her.

"I am touching you. So what? What's going to happen to me, lady of Hu family?" Once again, his filthy hand grabbed Holley's waist even tighter.

All this time, Holley had been closely observing the people walking by the gate. At that moment, she vaguely saw someone. Her face suddenly turned.

"You! Let go of me! Don't touch me! Let me go or I will call someone to come!" Holley shouted in fear. Her facial expression showed that she was afraid and something terrible was happening.

Meanwhile, Wood was surprised by Holley's sudden change. But when he saw how helpless and terrified Holley was, he was so satisfied with her reactions. He felt like he had conquered this woman and he was proud of it.

'Like I thought, she's just a normal woman. She is nothing important. She lied to me, ' he thought happily.

'There's no way that she can threaten me, ' Wood thought and was delighted with himself.

His hand gripped Holley tighter than it was as his face inched closer to hers. His lips twisted in satisfaction as they neared Holley's own.

The sound of running footsteps suddenly got louder and louder.

Pak! The sound of a fist hitting Wood's face was heard. Before he had realized what happened, he got kicked from behind and fell on the floor like a garbage bag. "Ouch!" Wood winced in pain. He tried to get up, but to no avail. Just beside him, Leila also fell on the floor. Her head hit the pavement and she felt disoriented for a minute. Holley slowly looked up in fear, to replace out Black standing angrily in front of her.

"How are you feeling? Did you get hurt?" Black rushed to Holley and asked. Holley shook her head languidly, like she had gone through something she couldn't handle. Then, she collapsed in Black's arms.

"This man...he wanted to..." Holley choked out. Sobs soon racked her body and she was unable to speak normally.

"Damn it!"

Black turned his fiery gaze at Wood, like he was going to kill and torture him in a hundred different ways.

'He dared touch my woman. He wants to die, ' Black thought.

At first, Wood was still busy complaining about his pain, but when Black looked at him, he completely forgot his sore backside.

His eyes were wide open and looked in disbelief at Black, and fear was written all over his face.

'Oh my God. It really is Black Hu, the young master of Hu Group. I saw him with his father Rex at a banquet a few days earlier. I tried to talk to him with an excuse, but he didn't mind me at all, ' Wood thought o the previous events as he looked at Black's face.

'I just wanted to hit on a girl, and I didn't expect that I would be in a trouble with the young master of Hu Group!

What am I going to do? I don't want to die. I've heard that Rex's ways of torturing are so cruel that anyone who pisses him off will be thrown into the sea to feed fishes or will be dead without a face to recognize, 'Wood kept thinking.

At once, Wood lay on his stomach with his knees on the floor. "I'm sorry, Mr. Hu. I'm sorry! I didn't recognize Miss Ye, and I didn't mean to offend you. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!" he apologized and begged profusely.

However, Black didn't say anything at all. He wanted to leave, and grabbed Holley's arm.

"That woman on the floor is my friend. Black, I want to help her," Holley tugged on his sleeve and said.

At that moment, Leila was still sprawled on the floor, drunk. She wasn't aware of anything and didn't even know what to say when she saw Holley walk towards her.

Black relented to Holley's request and helped her get Leila up. Before they went away, he gave a good, hard kick in Wood's leg again.

"Thank you, Mr. Hu! Thank you for your lesson," Wood said as he kept bowing on the floor. He didn't even dared to mention the pain, even if he looked pathetic.

To stay alive was more important than anything. At that moment, Wood wanted to do nothing but thank all the gods he'd ever prayed to.

On the other hand, Black helped Holley to get Leila in the car. "Is this woman really a friend of yours?" Black looked at Leila and asked with a frown.

Leila was such in a drunken stupor that she had been mouthing gibberish the whole time. And after all that happened, her hair and clothes were a mess. She looked like a lunatic to him.

Holley glanced at Leila and looked at her appearance in disgust. However, she turned to Black and kindly said, "She is indeed my friend, she just wasn't in a good mood. She drank a little bit too much today. I went to pick her up, but I didn't expect that..." Holley paused mid-sentence and lowered her head, like she was distressed.