Chapter 431 Matthew’s Schemes

The conversation fell into silence until Hendrey asked in ‘surprise’, “What… Did you say? Tiffany, she’s… she’s gone?”

Although Veronica could not see his expression right now, she could already feel the sadness in him. It was not an agonizing feeling, but he could not pretend that nothing had happened before, considering the fact that he had shared a past with Tiffany.

“Her funeral is over, though.” In other words, Veronica was wondering if he was still going to return. Yet, the man merely sighed and did not reply.

“Hendrey, are you okay?”

“I just need some time alone,” he responded before hanging up the phone without hesitation. Du… Du… Du…

Now that the call had ended, she pondered, He must be in despair to know the sudden news.

She went back to the living room and sat for a while until Caleb, Skyler and Miguel arrived with the sushi. They sat on the dining table and began to revel in the food happily. Amidst the laughter of merriment, they raised their glasses and cheers. Before they realized it, they had already finished seventeen bottles of red wine.

The light drinkers—Miguel and Caleb—had passed out with one of them lying on the couch while the other on the table. Skyler held his glass and let out a hearty laughter. “Sasha, see? Caleb and Miguel are really bad at drinking. You wouldn’t be able to build up your alcohol tolerance if it wasn’t for me.”

tipsy. With her leaning against his shoulder, she listened to their childhood stories attentively. It was probably because she liked him so much that

the dizziness, she struggled to look at

left without a word in the end. He was super sad about it.” A drunk Skyler was a mess as well. He could

sip of the wine, lost her appetite.

word and Matthew was

eyes. He could tell that she was sober from her

wine bottle

“But I still like him regardless if he was sad or not. I fell in love

Matt… Matt loves you so much…” Skyler poured himself another glass of wine and polished it off before blabbering ‘thoughtlessly’, “If he didn’t love

‘fast asleep’ while resting her head on Matthew’s shoulder. He continued, “Why do you think he would marry Tiffany? It’s because he thought she was his savior. It’s… It’s merely an act of gratitude. Then… Then, he came across Roni. Oh! You might not know who I’m talking about. Roni

go back to your place if you’re

love her. You wanna marry her because her personality resembles Sasha. You know that—hiccup—You do know that Sasha’s returning, so you hooked onto Roni to put on a show in

and added, “Sasha, the person Matt likes is you. He hates how you left without a word, so… He has found someone to replace

up!” ordered Matthew as he set down the glass on the table with a thud. He patted Veronica’s cheeks lightly. “Roni? Don’t listen to

was already on the table while she had fallen asleep for

Roni?” He gently patted her cheeks again and was sure that she was ‘sleeping’

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