Chapter 91

Estrella regained her composure and sat down with a smile, “Mr. Jason, you sure can hold your liquor.”

Jason followed suit, sitting down while wincing and taking a sharp breath.

Catching his expression, Estrella looked at him with a glance full of disdain, thinking to herself. “If you can’t handle your drinks, why put on a show? Who are you trying to impress?”

Her contemptuous look didn’t go unnoticed, and Jason gritted his teeth, “Not even offering me a bite to eat?”

Logan, catching the awkwardness, chimed in with a grin, “Estrella, Mr. Jason went hard on the drinks. Why don’t you serve him some veggies?”

With everyone watching, Estrella couldn’t exactly refuse, so she begrudgingly forked a few green beans onto Jason’s plate.

As the alcohol started to loosen tongues around the table, the conversation picked up again. Jason was half-listening to the chatter, his attention mostly fixed on Estrella.

Serene, seated next to Drew, hadn’t taken her eyes off Jason and Estrella the entire time. She knew Jason was into Estrella. He had intentionally downed that drink earlier, deliberately stirring up suspicion about their relationship to ward off potential suitors.

Having known Jason for years, she’d never seen him give anyone this much attention, not even Holly. Serene envied that Estrella could marry Jason, and Jason also cared about

her.

Post-dinner, Estrella nonchalantly ate the peanuts, eavesdropping on the banter, when suddenly she felt a hand on her thigh under the table.

She turned to look at the person on her right, watching him chat away as if nothing were amiss. However, his left hand was causing mischief under the table. Her face soured, and with a flick, she snapped a nut shell onto the table in front of him.

Jason looked at the shell that had flown over, his fingers deliberately brushing against her under the table as he leaned in and whispered cheekily, “Aren’t you usually quite bold and fiery?”

response, his

expressionless while eating the nuts, thought to herself, no wonder he had pulled his chair closer earlier, so he had this

beneath her skirt Estrella’s high-heeled foot came down hard on his. If she had known about tonight’s dinner and Jason’s sleazy moves, she would never have worn a skirt. Now she realized he’d taken advantage of the

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her inner thigh,

his wrist, “Then stand up and tell everyone that

wife.”

and Estrella, tired of pushing him away, grabbed him

acted as if nothing was happening. When Jason glared at her, she merely raised

watching the whole time. Although she hadn’t seen exactly what they were doing, she

expressions and smiles

Serene’s forlorn look, Estrella casually

seems upset.”

should I care about her being upset?” He then reiterated, “I’ve told you countless

“Funny how you’re always so quick to

being jealous if I didn’t?” Jason’s fair face was flushed with a hint of drunkenness, his aristocratic nose

into his mouth, “You are not

“Can’t you

At Jason’s outburst, the rest of the table turned to them to

know walnuts need

“Yeah, Mr. Jason.”

open. The lead attorney from Future Vision Law Firm arrived with two colleagues, one of whom was

Aa an old hand at social and business gatherings, she could tell at a

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