A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 161

Indeed, Lawrence didn't see his blind date because he was not interested in her at all, let alone getting married at such a young age. He was only in his early twenties. A bright future was still waiting for him. He'd rather focus on his career than wasting his time and efforts in coaxing a woman.

Hence, he found an excuse to sneak away after sending Elizabeth to the meeting place.

Ethan looked at Lawrence with admiration written all over his face. He really admired Lawrence's courage. Whether it was true or not that Lawrence and Maria were just acting, Lawrence was not afraid that James would take revenge on him.

The truth was, the message on James' phone was not sent by Maria. It was James who sent it to himself using Maria's phone when she fell asleep. He just wanted to test Lawrence and confirm his suspicion about his relationship with Maria.

But it turned out that Lawrence was also a tough nut to crack. He was on military missions all year round, and his lips were sealed.

Leaning against the back of the sofa, James decided to give his best friend a dose of his own medicine. He said, "In a word, forget about Maria. She has been living in Fairview Villa these days. With me."

Lawrence remained calm and even looked more indifferent than James. Despite what James said, he still answered, "I don't believe your crap. I will confirm it with Maria."

James was rendered speechless. For the first time, he found out how single-minded his best friend was.

A few moments later, Lawrence excused himself and went to the bathroom. He took advantage of the opportunity to send a message to Maria. "What did you tell James about us? Why did you send him a message confessing your love to him? You should have told me in advance."

"Confessing my love? I just told James that we've broken up. Nothing else," Maria replied.

When he received her response, the three of them had already drunk up two glasses of wine in the private room.

Upon reading the first sentence of her message, Lawrence couldn't help but laugh. Now he knew that James was indeed testing him.

"Lawrence, why are you laughing?" Ethan asked curiously.

Lawrence put away his phone, glanced at James sitting opposite him, and answered, "I'm just amused how adorable James is."

"Really?" Ethan asked excitedly. "How about me? Who is more adorable, James or me?"

Lawrence pretended to seriously think before he answered, "Well-"

However, before he could finish his words, James chimed in with a long face, "Don't make me hit you."

The smile in Lawrence's eyes deepened. After such a long vacation, his fists were also craving for a fight, so he said, "Let's go out and have a fight, shall we?"

James drank the last mouthful of wine in his glass and decisively stood up. He then called out to Ethan, "Let’s roll!"

Ethan was confused and a bit startled. 'Why are we leaving so soon? Besides, I don't want to go yet.’

James took the bag from the table before they went out of the private room. But as soon as he got into the car, he asked Lorenzo to throw it away, so Maria would never get it.

Lawrence also knew that since James had taken it away, Maria would definitely not get it. But he didn't care anymore.

Actually, he didn't really buy that bag for Maria. Elizabeth had asked him to buy a gift for his blind date and suggested that he buy her a bag or a pair of shoes since young women all fancied such kind of stuff.

Before his date, Elizabeth dragged him to the mall and forced him to buy a bag. It so happened that the shop they went to had a BOGO promo. Hence he got two bags for the price of one.

Since it was inappropriate to give two bags to a blind date, Elizabeth asked him to leave one of them in his car.

On his way to the club, he caught a glance of the bag on the back seat and thought of pissing James off. So he brought the bag to the private room and asked James to give it to Maria for him.

If James was willing to give it to her, it would be good. But if not, it was also okay with him.

He didn't know how to deal with women's stuff at all.

The three of them left the Leopard Club and drove to a boxing gym nearby.

But since they were drunk and couldn't drive, they all huddled up in James' car.

Lawrence sat in the passenger seat while Ethan and James sat in the back seat.

More or less, Maria could already understand what was going on.

Perhaps Ethan was scared of being beaten, so he asked for her help.

However, she couldn't help wondering if Ethan had been thinking too highly of her. Was he thinking that she could convince Lawrence or win against James?

Biting her lower lip, Maria finally decided to save Ethan.

When she arrived at the place, Maria struggled for a while before she got out of the car. She then walked towards the boxing gym.

BAOBO Boxing Gym was located on the thirty-sixth floor of JD Plaza in the city center. It had a membership, and only registered members were allowed to enter.

Before they got in, Ethan had already whispered to the receptionist that a woman named Maria Song would be looking for him later. He instructed the receptionist to just let her in.

When they were in the dressing room, he deliberately changed his clothes slowly. Then he ran to the bathroom while clutching his stomach.

James watched Ethan's receding back with a disgusted look. He decided to do a warm-up with Lawrence first.

When Maria rushed inside in a hurry, Ethan just dodged two attacks from James. On the third attack, Ethan happened to catch a glimpse of her being escorted by the gym staff.

He was so distracted by her presence that he seemed to ignore James' punch that was about to hit his face.

But Maria could clearly see what was going on, so she exclaimed, "James!'¹ She then rushed over to them in her high heels.

James' fist almost touched Ethan's face. But the moment he heard Maria's voice, he paused.

It was only then that Ethan seemed to have come back to his senses.

At the thought of what might have happened to him if James' fist landed on his face, he immediately took off his gloves, jumped off the battle ring, and ran to Maria. "Maria!" He called her name in an aggrieved tone of voice.