Wife is a Lawyer
Chapter 46 Sudden Arrival

"Chasing after you?" Peter sneered, "Adriana, don't ever try to change the subject!"

His voice sounded tough while he was grabbing her wrist, "You wanna turn a deaf ear to my warning, huh?"

Adriana still looked composed while facing his threatening look, "Mr. Alston, stop being domineering. I ain't your staff. You have no right to interfere my personal issue!"

Adriana squinted and continued in a mocking tone, "Both Alvin and I have been single. He has the right to propose to me and I have the right to say yes."

Adriana was getting so annoyed. She couldn't figure out how much Peter seemed to hate her.

He had no right to judge her relationship with Alvin.

Though starting a relationship with Alvin had never been taken into consideration by Adriana, nor had she expected herself to accept his love confession, she still found it greatly disgusting whenever Peter was pushing her into another decision.

"You can be with anybody else except for Alvin!"

Alvin had been his best friend while Adriana was the mother of his son. If Alvin married her, Peter would be rendered horribly embarrassed when facing them in the future.

Besides, he had to take Luis's feeling into consideration.

"You gotta be crazy!" Adriana pushed him away.

Suddenly, someone knocked the door.

Adriana took a look at it and walked pass Peter to open the door.

"Hey, Adriana, see what I've got." Theresa was standing at the door while holding a basket filled with lobsters, "I know lobster is your favorite."

But then she frowned, "Hey, what's going on? You don't look good."

Adriana couldn't help clenching her fists, overwhelmed with nervousness.

Peter was now right inside her apartment while Theresa suddenly showed up unexpectedly. What if Theresa noticed that Peter was just staying with her alone? It was gonna be a tricky misunderstanding.

"Hey, Theresa! Peter has just arrived before I could notice you." Adriana took a few steps backward to open the door.

Standing still, Theresa fixed her eyes on Peter while he was standing in the living room. As their eyes contacted, her face went pale with her eyes being stunned. "Peter, why are you here?"

Theresa started looking around between Peter and Adriana. Then she trailed through the door to enter. As she reached the front of Peter, she raised her head to look at him, expecting an explanation. Embarrassed as well, Adriana was overwhelmed with nervousness.

She clenched her fists, in the middle of which sweated. She found it hard to breath.

"Theresa, Alvin just confessed his love to me today... Peter was there with him. Do you still remember the case of Brenda that I took over? So I asked him to stay and showed him so files about the case." A storm seemed to be brewing at this moment.

Adriana struggled to calm down while mentioning about Alvin's confession to her so as to dissolve Theresa's suspicion.

"Is that so, Peter?" Theresa frowned while looking at him, waiting for his answer.

Obviously, she inclined to Peter's answer rather than Adriana's at this moment.

With hands in the pocket, he still looked as usual as if it had nothing to do with him.

He casually looked at Adriana and squinted at her. At this moment, he clearly captured her panic look, which somehow amused him a bit.

"Yes." He answered coldly and sat down on the couch. Then he reached out his hand to take the files Adriana was just reading, "Listen, you'd better drop the case. Though you are Theresa's best friend, I won't simply sit by if you challenge my bottom line."

Fortunately, he did as Adriana wished.

Hearing that, Adriana breathed out a sigh of relief.

"Brenda is my client! Listen up, I will keep working on it. As Theresa's best friend, I still have the right to investigate the whole thing so that I can figure out your real nature in case you did cheat on Theresa!" She sneered and continued, "You'd better pray that you have nothing to do with this case. Otherwise, the law will make you pay the price!"

Standing between them, Theresa could clearly tell that there had been a tit-for-tat fight between Peter and Adriana, which was about to blow up.

There didn't seem to be an affair at all.

As long as Theresa was sure about that, she would no longer be suspicious.

"Hey, Peter, you are my fiancé. And Adriana is my best friend. Come on, don't make me embarrassed." While speaking, she led Adriana to sit down and added, "Adriana, you know you have been responsible. But I know about Peter. I trust him."

Sitting in between, she looked at Adriana while holding her hand to say, "You have told me about the case last time when we were in the café. But Adriana, the case still appears uncertain. Besides, Peter has been well-known around the city as a privileged gentleman. Once the case is made public, it will surely damage his reputation even if he were to be proved innocent after the case being settled. Adriana, can you think it over for my sake?"

"Think it over?" Adriana looked sulky while sighing, "Theresa, you..."

She paused, not knowing what to continue.

But meanwhile, she looked at Peter, who still remained aloof.

"Theresa, how naïve you are!" Adriana shook her head.

"Come on, just sit still. I will get the lobsters to the kitchen."

"Hey, let me do it. Just continue to talk about the case with Peter."

Theresa took the lobsters to walk to the kitchen.

As she just stood up, she suddenly turned to look at Adriana, "So did you accept Alvin's confession?"

She still remembered that Peter disagreed with Alvin starting a relationship with Adriana. She wondered if Peter stopped Alvin once again.

At the thought of that, she felt a bit upset.

"Alvin did it just out of whim. As the second son of the Grant Family, he has been destined to marry the girl from the Hendersons. How can I just sit by while watching him making a wrong decision?" Peter sneered while glancing at Adriana.

Though it was just an excuse, it still sounded quite reasonable.

However, Adriana was feeling annoyed. Peter must be mocking, she supposed.

Then she smiled at Theresa, "I need some time to think about it."

"Oh, really?" Theresa looked thrilled.

Alvin's engagement with that girl had never been in her list of consideration.

All she hoped was that Alvin could marry Adriana as soon as possible so that she no longer needed to worry if there was a possible affair between Peter and Adriana.