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

off the shares on Sachs Enterprises

returned

Sue, and had the latter thrown

all disguises, screaming and

would take even a single

Noel had worked hard on her dress and makeup as

of the Stuarts’ charity ball,

in that prestigious

that none of the journalists were calling out

slow pace-or looking at her, for that matter.

headlines and caused an uproar in business when she

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

she had already thought about what

forward to, no one

slowly, even posing a little to draw attention-even so,

summarily refusing

as she wondered if Rocktown’s journalists

flocking at the other end were suddenly

turned to find Patrick and Cordy alighting from a black Rolls Royce,

the focus of the red carpet as everyone turned towards

journalists were all so eager that Noel

frustrated Noel considerably, but she assured herself that the journalists were

enthusiastic about Patrick’s

the Stuarts’ statuses were

Noel owed

when she heard countless journalists bombarding Cordy

which had