Chapter 37
Rebecca soon returned to the room.
Before she even saw Sonia’s cards,
Rebecca could already guess what had transpired just by the ‘gentle’ smile on Tina’s face. Sonia must have suffered a
harsh defeat when I was away.
Rebecca went to sit next to Sonia and shot
a glance at the cards in Sonia’s hands.
Again, they were not quite useful. Then,
she asked in a low voice, “President Reed,
the woman opposite of you is not any
other woman. She’s your ex-husband’s
lover. Are you really going to be defeated
by her like this?”
“No worries. I just have to win three rounds
out of five.” Sonia smiled. Since she sai down to play poker with them, she looked
as peaceful as ever.
While she replied to Rebecca, she played
yet another card.
“Game.” Tina placed her card down with a
brighter smile on her face,
Rebecca was speechless to hear that.
“President Reed, you have already lost two
rounds to Tina. I think there’s no need to
continue,” Tina’s friend said pompously.
“Tina is not a petty person. As long as you
apologize to her, we will hire the best
tattoo artist to remove the tattoo from
your body.”
Tina raised her head slightly as she looked at Sonia. It looked as though she was waiting for Sonia to concede defeat. “Would you like to continue, Miss Reed?”
she asked in a gentle yet peaceful tone.
“Of course.” Sonia shuffled the cards again without a change in her expression. “We said that we could play five rounds.”
Tina’s friend rolled her eyes at Sonia and she rudely spoke, “We are giving you an
opportunity, yet you are not treasuring it
gun at yourself. Tina is
I think you would
win against her.”
Tina
she looked at Sonia
Reed would like to continue with
I will follow her
started a new
were only women, the spectators did not merely watch the
they chatted with
Stone. On Cynthia’s right was Sonia while Melody was seated on
as she even peeled an orange
to Melody ingratiatingly. “Melody,
going to stay in Seafield
planning to
year here?”
to Norfolk
her cards on the table
frown she added “Peter
added, “Peter Southfield wants to have a
the topic. “Back then, didn’t the Southfield Family beg your grandfather to betroth you to him? They used your family name to accomplish many things. How could he even dare to divorce
because”
remembered something and stopped
halfway through
she merely gave a cold
he can
I want to see which
to take this
listened to them in
she
not know much of the
was only aware that they were quite influential in this
only because of her powerful background and her grandfather, who
Even if she
Family that was of
to her family,
that was
enough for them.
did not encounter that tragic accident which claimed the
when
would have had to
Sonia wouldn’t have suffered such a shameful defeat
was lost in her thoughts as
past. At
will be engaged
to invite us to her place for dinner. Since you will still be in Seafield at that time, we will
Melody was quite shocked
that she was
to him. Why
again?”
irae the initial
she raised her voice. “That won’t
Valentine’s Day next year!”
on Valentine’s Day?” Melody asked Tina. “Is
in agreement
“I’ve been in a
Toby
quite
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