Chapter 1027

“And that’s not all. She tried everything to seduce me before, just to claw her way into the Cole family p>

“Her background, her upbringing-she’s completely out of your league, Mr. Blackwood p>

Adrian Cole sounded utterly sincere and fiercely indignant. “Mr. Blackwood, this kind of woman is nothing but a vain gold digger. She’ll do whatever it takes to climb the social ladder. Please, don’t let her fool you p>

Adrian desperately tore Serena down.

He wanted Nicholas to see her true colors.

He wanted to rip away Serena’s ultimate shield!

In Adrian’s mind, after he dumped Serena, she was supposed to wallow in the

gutter, struggling in the dirt, her life spiraling into endless misery.

She wasn’t supposed to latch onto an elite powerhouse like Nicholas Blackwood!

As long as Nicholas was out of the picture.

Serena would fall right back into the gutter, returning to the pathetic trash she was meant to be.

She would be forced to crawl back to her biological parents in the slums!

When that time came.

She would come crying to him, begging for a second chance!

The very thought sent a rush of twisted excitement through Adrian, his gaze locking onto Nicholas with burning anticipation.

He eagerly waited to see disgust wash over Nicholas’s face.

He wanted to see Nicholas shove Serena away and walk off without looking back.

But p>

Nicholas’s expression didn’t shift in the slightest.

Instead, the look he gave Adrian was dripping with razor-sharp irony and pure mockery.

It was as if he were watching a clown stumble through a pathetic routine.

It was utterly laughable.

Nicholas even let out a soft chuckle, his voice low and lazy. “Out of my league p>

“Does Mr. Cole have some sort of misunderstanding about what that word means p>

His striking hand firmly clasped Serena’s.

He intertwined their fingers.

And held their joined hands up for him to see.

“To get Serena to agree to be my fiancée, offered up the entire Blackwood family fortune with both hands. I even put my own life on the ine as part of the proposal.

“And even then… I still have to wait in line. I have to see if she’s in a good enough mood to take on the burden of having me around content.

Nicholas lifted their intertwined hands, his lips gently brushing against the back of her hand.

“In my eyes, it was never a question of whether she was out of my league p>

“It’s me, fighting tooth and nail, just trying to be worthy of her p>

Nicholas lowered his gaze, his eyes pooling with endless devotion as he looked deeply at the girl in his arms, an intensely doting smile spreading across his lips. “Serena is so brilliant Soradiant Having her as my fiancée is the greatest honor of my life. I’m the one punching above my weight p>

Nicholas’s words turned Adrian completely to stone.

Adrian’s face cycled through shades of sickly pale, his mouth hanging open, unable

to form a single syllable.

What… what did he just hear?

The Serena he had treated like worthless dirt.

Was actually Nicholas’s most prized treasure.

The man standing at the absolute apex of society was actually claiming he wasn’t worthy of Serena?

That he was the one punching above his weight?

And that to win her over, he had offered up the entire Blackwood empire?

Was he out of his mind?

To put himself down like that, just for Serena?

“No… impossible p>

Every single word Nicholas spoke felt like a brutal slap across Adrian’s face.

It took his pride, his ego, and his pathetic sense of superiority, and ruthlessly ground them into the dirt.

Adrian stumbled back two steps.

It was only his lackey, Darius Payne, grabbing his arm that kept him from collapsing

onto the floor in total humiliation.

Nicholas couldn’t even be bothered to acknowledge a clown like him.

Lowering himself to even speak to Adrian was a stretch.

And he only did it because he refused to let some piece of trash disrespect his

Serena.