Chapter 880

Indeed, the serious Gilbert, who rarely smiles, was frowning at the moment, looking displeased.

He put down his wine glass heavily and said softly, “You can argue if you want, but please don’t involve me.”

Other small investors also criticized me one after another, saying, “Exactly, you can argue among yourselves, why involve Mr. Russell?”

Kimberly acted with tears in her eyes, and said to me with a look of grievance, “Yes, Ms. Duffy, I was just trying to show concern for you. Why would you use Mr. Russell to mock me? I knew you hated me, but you could just target me, not bring up Mr. Russell…”

“You shut up!” I couldn’t bear it any longer and slammed the table. “Who was the first to bring up Mr. Russell? Everyone saw it clearly. Do you feel embarrassed to act like this?”

“Yeah, first you linked Mr. Russell with Ralda, and now you’re crying and playing the victim. It’s really disgusting, you know.” Vonnie echoed me with a look of disdain on her face as she stared at Kimberly.

Kimberly choked back two sobs and said, “Since Ms. Avila doesn’t want to act with me, I’ll have Quentin replace Ms. Avila later, so Ms. Avila won’t feel uncomfortable in the future.”

“Oh, Kimberly, I was the biggest investor in this play after all.” Esmie was still the playwright of this play. Mr. Russell was also the director. “You changed such an important role as the second female lead in front of the three of us. Isn’t that a bit disrespectful to us three?”

Johnathan rarely said a word to Vonnie, and these words directly stunned Kimberly.

She shook her head, “I didn’t mean that. It’s Ms. Avila who said she didn’t want to act with me, so I…”

“Since she said she didn’t want to act with you, why does it have to be Vonnie who replaced you?” Johnathan leaned back in his chair, smiling at Kimberly nonchalantly.

And with this sentence, he also directly clarified his relationship with Vonnie in public. Vonnie was a bit shy and quietly tugged on his arm, indicating for him to keep it low-key.

Unfortunately, Johnathan was not a low-key person. Instead, in front of everyone, he held Vonnie’s hand and laughed a little arrogantly, saying, “I just want to ask everyone, who wants to replace Vonnie?”

Everyone was silent.

Kimberly’s face looked rather unpleasant.

Johnathan smiled and said in a friendly tone, “It’s okay, whoever wants to replace Vonnie can just come forward and tell me.”

Seeing Johnathan’s arrogant and proud look, I couldn’t help but laugh. He was so blatantly protecting Vonnie, with Reynaldo’s big Buddha statue behind him, in Freybourne, their territory. Who else dares to replace Vonnie?

Vonnie blushed and shook off his hand, but didn’t shake it off completely.

Quentin suddenly glanced at Vonnie and said lightly to Johnathan, “The roles have all been cast, posters have been released, and promotions have been done. It wouldn’t be good to change now.”

“If Mr. Dunlap insisted on replacing Kimberly, then I don’t mind going back to attract investors again. As for Mr. Dunlap, we can only look forward to working together next time.”

I gave him a cold glance and sneered in my heart, “He really does protect Kimberly tightly.”

Johnathan shrugged, “It doesn’t matter, anyway we don’t lack partners.”

And Mr. Duffy had better understand that the person suggesting a change of roles was none other than Ms. Palmer beside you, not us.

Quentin looked at Kimberly, his expression complex.