CHAPTER 12 Just a Misunderstanding

　　Seeing someone touching his cousin as soon as he walked back into the reception, Gerald hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Joe back, jerking his hand away from Sophia's wrist.

　　"Do you want to die?!" Now standing in between Sophia and Joe, Gerald glared at Joe with a serious face as soon as he released Sophia's hand from his.

　　"Gerald?" Joe called out to him as he recognized the person in front of him, and a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes.

　　How could he be with Vanessa? He thought, staring at them.

　　"You know me?" A look of surprise and a bit of confusion appeared on Gerald's face. He was shocked as to how the man before him knew his name, whereas he doesn't know the man before him.

　　Gerald usually likes to hang out, and he is known as a playboy in almost all of NY City. Joe Warren, however, has always kept himself clean, never going to those boring or open parties.

　　Although the two of them are upstarts in NY City, they haven't met each other in private. This see