My Yandere Online Boyfriend Slept Next Door Chapter 12

My Yandere Online Boyfriend Slept Next Door Chapter 12

Three months later, I topped the exam and received an invitation to the Global Finance Gala.

I was also asked to speak on stage.

Knox received an invitation too.

We flew overseas together and checked into the hotel where the event was being held.

That afternoon, I stood in front of the mirror, trying on the dress I’d prepared.

A white gown I’d spent eight hundred dollars on.

It fit perfectly-looked beautiful too.

The girl in the mirror had taken off her glasses.

Pale, slender, but with a quiet strength in her eyes.

Still-the dress was too basic for an event this grand.

The doorbell rang. I opened it.

Knox stood there.

When his eyes landed on me, something flickered across his face-

brief, but real.

He was holding a box.

“I had a gown custom-made for you. Want to try it?”

He pulled out a black dress-simple, elegant, clearly expensive.

| I put it on.

It was like looking at a different person.

The shy, quiet girl was gone.

In her place was someone who owned the room.

Knox knew about Chloe’s finance course months ago.

He ordered this dress back then.

It’s CURIEL-expensive and understated.

For my first high-profile event, I needed the confidence this dress gave me.

I walked out of the bathroom.

Knox’s gaze held. “Beautiful.”

I meant it. “Thank you, Knox.”

He’s undressing her with his eyes.

I live for this pre-relationship tension.

That evening, Knox and I arrived at the gala.

He moved through the crowd like he owned it.

People who knew his father came up to greet him.

“Go ahead,” I said. “I’ll look around.”

He nodded. “I’ll find you later.”

Serena walked in on her father’s arm.

She spotted me and murmured something to him before heading over.

“Chloe? I’m not seeing things, am I?”

“What are you doing here?”

She didn’t know I’d passed the exam. She’d been dropped from the program.

She smirked.

“Let me guess-you came with Knox? Are you his plus-one?”

Each invited guest could bring a partner or family member.

Serena must have come with her father-

otherwise, she wouldn’t have had a spot.

She assumed I was the same way.

“I received an invitation,” I said coolly. “Didn’t you?”

Her face tightened.

“Impossible. How could you?”

Before she could say more, a classmate approached.

“You’re Chloe? The one who ranked first? Pleasure to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you,” I said smoothly. “I remember you from class.”

Across the room, Knox’s eyes tracked my hand in that brief handshake.

Something in his gaze sharpened-possessive, quick, then gone.

Serena’s composure cracked.

“Wait-first place? You’re speaking on stage too?”

I nodded.

She sneered, trying to save face.

“A small-town hick like you, at an event like this?”

“I can’t wait to see you embarrass yourself up there.”