Embrace Love's
CH 59'S. Engagement party part 3

Vincent looked at Claude with laughter in his eyes as Claude deliberately shifted his seat closer to Catalina's chair, covering the girl's body from the stage in front of them, he said that he could see more freely on stage.

"Claude .. You look forward, but your back covers my view" Catalina said, loosening her head over Claude's shoulder.

Everyone applauded when the host announced the couple who would be engaged that night would exchange rings accompanied by their parents.

When the music accompanied the ring pinned by doctor Luigi to Natalia's finger, encouraging the whole audience to stand pat, Natalia pinned the ring back to Luigi's finger.

"Claude .. I want to see." Catalina. He felt Claude deliberately blocking his view. Eventually Claude shifted, giving Catalina access to look at the stage.

Natalia Ambroz has finished pinning the ring. Everyone clapped their hands. Catalina also clapped, she looked at Luigi's face which forced a smile on her face. Catalina knew it was not the usual smile of doctor Luigi, who was sincere and carefree. The smile was very forced and looked full of weight.

Then the wide back view closed his eyes again. Catalina exhaled an annoyed breath.

"Claude ...," he lamented.

Claude turned around, looking at him.

"What!?" it was as if it was without sin. Joanna looked at her sister's behavior.

Before descending from the stage, Luigi who had been lazy to look at the invitees spread his gaze towards the table from the left to the right. He caught the figures of Claude Bernard and Yoana Bernard at the front desk almost at the right end. His eyes widened when he saw Catalina half-covered by Claude's broad shoulders.

Luigi was about to approach when Natalia's arm wrapped around her arm and stretched out her steps.

"Don't try to go out on my own and humiliate me by leaving me alone" Natalia said. Luigi paused his steps and followed Natalia who led him to follow the footsteps of their parents who began to meet his colleagues.

Claude held onto Catalina's elbow, took the girl away and looked for a drink.

"You're the one who left. Bring it here or ask the waiter for help" Catalina said.

"No, Catty. Wherever I go at this party, you have to come." Then Claude pulled him so he could only step following.

"Claude .. I feel like the couple there keeps seeing us. The woman in the red dress wasn't that the woman who met us in the park at the time?"

Claude stared at Catalina's gaze. Tania Sweyn and a man in her arms stared at them. Claude immediately turned his gaze, lazy to look at his former fiancee.

"That's my ex-fiance, you remind me, in the hunting lodge I told you."

"Oh .. did he leave because of the man next to him?"

Claude shrugged his shoulders answering Catalina's question.

"But it is only natural that he leaves if such a handsome man approaches and seduces him ...."

Claude immediately turned his head, looking at Catty who was tilting her head with an index finger on the cheek, staring at the judging figure of the man next to Miss Sweyn. He moved in front of Catty, closing the girl's eyes from the couple at the end of the room.

Catalina looked up as her eyes were covered in Claude's chest. He was shocked when he realized Claude's face was very close in front of his face.

"Catalina Seymor .. You won't answer when I ask if I'm handsome. But you easily praised the man as handsome."

"Claude .. keep your face, everyone is looking at us" Catalina said, pushing her palm against Claude's chest which she said stood too close to his face. Catalina turned her head slightly, glancing at the spies of the invitations who looked interested in them.

"Tell me I'm better looking than that guy" Claude said, deliberately bringing his face closer. Those blue eyes widened, after gulping down Catalina's saliva finally succumbing.

"Yes" he said slowly.

"Yes what? Catty?"

"Yes ..you are more handsome than he is" Catalina said softly, bowing. He hoped Claude would stay away soon, he was so ashamed that he felt like a spectacle to people.

At the long table where the food and drinks were served, Vincent and Joanna stood looking at Claude, Vincent smiled amusedly.

"He was on purpose ...," sizzled Vincent.

Yoana grinning. "You see the embers on Miss Sweyn's eyes? If it can kill, Claude and Lina have been burned from earlier" said Yiana.

"Looking at the growl in the eyes of doctor Luigi and his fiancee, I guess if it was just them here, the doctor had already pulled and pushed Claude away."

Then Joanna laughed with Vincent. Joanna's hand took a glass of drink, looking at Vincent who was looking around with watchful eyes, assessing the situation if anything was suspicious. Joanna realizes that Vincent has touched her more since the kidnapping. Without being forced, he would either hold Joanna's arm or sigh at her shoulder. Joanna knew Vincent was doing it because he wanted to take care of her, but her heart cheered happily without her being able to bear it.

Claude takes Catalina to a long table, where Joanna and Vincent were already there. The two are seen in the presence of two girls whom Claude knows as models in their company.

Claude stood at the other end of the long table giving Catalina a glass of drink.

"This is for you. There was no alcohol" he said.

Catalina greeted him, she took a slight sip. The red drink tasted like fruit extract on his tongue.

Claude glanced when in the distance, doctors Luigi and Natalia seemed to step slowly, some guests congratulated so that their steps seemed obstructed. Claude guessed the two would head towards them. Either with the intention of taking something at the table or to talk to him and Catalina.

Claude turned to the table and looked at the small cake provided there, he turned his back on Catalina and took a whipped cream that decorated the cake. Claude lifted the little cake and put it in his mouth while applying the cream on his fingertips to his own nose.

At the other end of the table, Vincent raises his eyebrows to see Claude. Joanna did not notice because she was chatting with two girls nearby.

Claude turned again towards Catalina with bulging cheeks.

"Catty ... You should try this, delicious .. soft," he said as he held out a cake towards Catalina.

Catalina glared then laughed amusedly. "Claude .. You're a cream straw" he said.

"really?" Claude held her cheek.

"Not .. not there. Right here! I clean it up." Catalina approached the table, pulled a tissue and began to clear Claude's nose from the cream. Claude deliberately lowered his head slightly so Catty wouldn't have to look up when cleaning her nose.

Doctor Luigi's footsteps stopped in the middle of the road. Natalia who took him had to brake suddenly when his fiancee stopped.

Natalia stared at the eyes of her fiance. Up ahead, very friendly, the first girl Claude took to a crowded event after four years seemed to be wiping Claude's face with a piece of tissue. Claude slightly lowered his head, appearing to be smiling very fondly at the girl.

Natalia moved her molars holding back her growl. Unaware that the man in the arm had just hissed angrily and stared at Claude and Catalina.

Luigi's chest was swollen with a whirling rage, since the show began he had tried to restrain himself, save his reluctance, keep his irritation, then he found out Bernard's family was present with Catalina. Lina had seen him engaged, the girl already knew there was a ring that had tied her to a girl, then she was faced with Claude's friendly scene that was continuously clinging to Catalina.

Luigi was angry. He was angry because there was nothing he could do. Only anger was in his heart now. Anger that asks to be immediately ventured.

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