Chapter 598
By the time Julliard returned, the auction had already begun.
Nate spotted him and immediately rushed over, eager to share the juicy gossip he’d just picked up.
“Julliard, did you hear? The Malcolm family’s heir, Lex, is apparently a complete pervert! I overheard someone saying he harassed a woman…
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Who would’ve thought? Looking at him, you’d never guess he had that kind of fetish. Just goes to show you really can’t judge a book by its cover!
“Weren’t you in the hall just now handling something? Did you see it happen?”
Carter, Kelly, and Nate had all been in the garden earlier and missed the incident. When they returned, they were greeted by murmurs and whispers from the crowd.
Julliard hesitated for a moment, then gave a slight nod. “Yeah. I caught part of it.”
Nate’s eyes lit up at once. He lived for this kind of drama.
“Come on, Julliard, spill! How much of a pervert is he really? Oh, and what about the woman… Was she pretty?”
Julliard replied calmly, “She was surrounded by too many people. I didn’t get a good look. As for Lex…”
He deliberately trailed off, baiting Nate’s curiosity. His eyes lowered slightly, concealing the cold glint behind them.
Nate was terrible at keeping secrets. If he caught wind of something like this, it would become the centerpiece of every drunken dinner and idle conversation with his rowdy friends. And not one of them was known for discretion.
Within a month, the story would spread through every corner of high society.
But that still wasn’t enough.
As these thoughts churned in Julliard’s mind, Nate had already grown impatient and pressed for more details.
“Come on, Julliard, just how twisted is Lex? I heard he’s well into his thirties and still doesn’t have a girlfriend. There were even rumors he was chasing Victoria for years and never got anywhere. Looking back, that must’ve been a cover, right? The truth is, he’s a full-blown pervert, isn’t he?”
Gossip gleamed in Nate’s eyes like a child discovering treasure.
Julliard was speechless. He hadn’t even said much, and Nate had already filled in the rest on his own.
Julliard finally gave a vague reply. “Something like that.”
Nate wasn’t satisfied. “But how exactly is he perverted? Come on, you still haven’t told me! Wait, don’t tell me… he actually took his pants off?”
The very thought made Nate recoil with visible disgust.
“That can’t be, right? There are security cameras everywhere. Doesn’t he care about being caught?”
Suddenly, something seemed to click in his mind. He slapped his thigh in realization.
“I got it! He must have an exhibitionist kink! I’ve read about people like that-getting off on being seen!”
Julliard was once again rendered speechless.
He suddenly felt that the stories he’d originally considered spreading about Lex were far too merciful.
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Chapter 598
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When it came to inventing scandal-especially of the salacious kind-Nate was unrivaled.
After a brief pause, Julliard said, “I arrived late. I don’t know the exact details. I only heard people saying he was getting handsy.”
Which wasn’t untrue. Lex had grabbed Sharon’s hand. He’d also stepped on her foot. Technically, “handsy” wasn’t inaccurate.
Nate frowned skeptically. “Sounds like those people were afraid of offending Lex, so they softened the story and tried to paint him in a better light.”
Hearing their conversation, Carter glanced over at Julliard, a flicker of curiosity in his gaze.
Under normal circumstances, Julliard wouldn’t have entertained Nate’s gossip. He might even have warned him to keep quiet. But today, for some reason, he was actively feeding it.
Still… the idea that Lex was a pervert?
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