A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 399

Noel was attending the charity ball too, but as board chairwoman of Sachs

Enterprises.

Sachs Enterprises would never make the list of the Stuarts’ grandest annual charity

ball, and it was Jessica who personally extended an invitation to Noel. Jessica said

that since they were partners, she should give Noel more opportunities if it was within

her abilities.

Noel was beside herself with joy, and went out of her way to brag in front of her family.

After all, she was no longer staying at the family’s mansion, having bought herself

another that was much grander than theirs.

Still, Sue met her in private. She appeared to be happy for Noel, saying that she and

Noel could finally hold their own in the Sachs family. She also added that Plum had

been kept miserably in house arrest at the mansion by Simon himself.

Despite all her fawning, it was clear Sue wanted to win Noel over and take a cut of the

Sachs’s family estate. However, Noel was no pushover. She grew up watching Sue,

and knew very well what Sue was scheming-once Sue earned Noel’s favor, she would

slowly siphon off the shares on

returned

Sue, and had the latter thrown

disguises, screaming and

would take even a single percentage

hard on her

of the Stuarts’ charity ball, intent on

in

was that none of the journalists were calling out

looking at her, for that

an uproar in business when she took

but since then, she hadn’t received not even one

she had already thought about what to say when she made the

to, no one

very slowly, even posing a

summarily refusing to interview

if Rocktown’s journalists were

end were suddenly

to find Patrick and Cordy alighting from a black Rolls

red carpet as everyone turned towards them. In

journalists were all so eager that Noel thought she was

considerably, but she assured herself that the

being enthusiastic about

were simply different-and

Noel owed them

And yet, that was when she heard countless journalists

which