Chapter 187: The threat is in vain
As Li Wei pulled Eliana close to her, she was completely dumbfounded, slowly, a pink tinge came to her cheeks, which depicted her embarrassment.
At that moment, all she wanted was to stop the time there and run away from everyone's eyes.
Apart from her, all the others, that included Ethan, Iris, Rey, and Alex.
"What the hell is he doing?" Reyansh was the first one of them to come back to his senses, and the moment he came back to his right mind, he felt his blood boiling.
His handed balled up into fists which made the veins in his upper arm pop up, in his eyes was a fire, that wanted to rip apart those hands that touched his sister like a friend.
Within some time that he met Eliana, he had seen her development from a girl who was cheerful to a woman who was cold and cruel, and heartless like a stone. She was unmoved even by the saddest and emotional situations. But he had also seen her letting out her emotions even though those occasions were incredibly rare.
But those times made him realize that she was someone he needed to protect with all his might, though she was stronger than everyone in the cinq she was the most vulnerable amongst them.
And so he had vowed to protect her like a brother. The moment he heard that she would be getting into a marriage contract with non-other than Li Wei, he was agitated, but like Alex, he also knew that he won't be able to stop her. So, he decided to do what he always does, which was protecting her on the sidelines.
"Stop," a voice called while he felt a soft hand had stopped him from moving forward. Immediately after listening to the voice, Rey recognized who it was.
"Leave me, Iris," he said as he tried to softly set himself free from the soft grip.
"Just sit back, you can't do anything anyway," said Iris with a sarcastic smile on her face, that hit the bull's eye.
Reyansh on listening to this, could not deny it either, and so subsiding his anger inside his heart, he followed what Iris told him.
The next person who was irritated by it was Alex. The air around him turned threatening, and he showed anger towards Li Wei.
Li Wei who was observing them was not very pleased with their behavior and reaction, but it wasn't that he had not expected it. The aura around Li Wei turned cold and cruel as well.
The atmosphere had turned undeniably dangerous, with Alex and Li Wei emitting their own threatening auras.
Eliana who was the last to recover quickly got away from Li Wei's grip by pushing him.
It was partly because Li Wei had loosened his grip on her and partly because of the force she applied.
Li Wei didn't bother to pull her back, but the atmosphere had turned heavy and awkward, with no one saying a thing.
Finally, the silence was interrupted when Iris said, "Good to meet you, Mr. Li. Let's make some introductions, for now, I am Iris Johson."
After saying this, Iris looked towards Reyansh who was standing beside her and showed no signs of speaking, he looked uninterested as well.
Iris nudged him on the arm after which looking at her he questioned in a whisper that why she did so.
Iris did not answer him, rather with her eyes she silently asked him to talk. Reyansh obviously had no intention to talk, but he was helpless in front of Iris and so with an uninterested voice, "Reyansh Davis."
After Rey, it was the number of Alex, who immediately said with a cold voice, "Alexandre DeRose."
"Aiden Li, Or Li Wei," Li Wei said with an unbothered voice.
"Now that the introductions are over, let's move to the main topic, shall we? Because I need to take my wife home as well.
Listening to Li Wei's last words, Eliana had a smug smile on her face, as she killed Li Wei in her heart a thousand times.
"It hurts my heart to see you as a widow, so better not kill me," a faint whisper was heard above Eliana's head, the voice was low that it was only heard by Eliana.
Eliana, as soon as she heard this, felt agitated. She was also surprised by the fact that Li Wei could know what was going on in her mind, which seems to be dangerous.
Eliana wanted to punch him so hard but somehow restrained herself.
Seeing the interaction between the two of them, Iris coughed twice, and said, "Sure."
Iris' voice caught the attention of all the people present in the room, thus started the first-ever conversation between the cinq and Li Wei.
"We have already seen the contract, and I should say that I am very impressed by the terms and conditions of the contract, but at the same time, it bothers us a lot," Iris said as she became the representative of the people present in the room.
Iris smiled a little but didn't say a thing.
"We are not very comfortable leaving Eliana with you, you free to reason it anything you want, but that is the truth. I am also aware that I won't be able to do anything as the contract is already sighed, but we would want to warn you a little bit," Iris said and as she said the last words, her voice turned unusually cold and dangerous.
"The moment we sense that Eliana is not comfortable with you or you have done anything that has emotionally or physically hurt her, you will be made regret that you even thought of this contract," Iris completed her words with a smile on her face.
But the reaction of Li Wei was completely different from what Iris had expected.
Li Wei laughed softly, he seemed genuinely happy, after laughing for while he said, "I am truly happy to see that my wife was in hands of so many loving and caring people, but it is needless to say that I won't even think of hurting her and so I think this warning of yours will be in vain."