Chapter 96

Ryder had never won an argument against his wife. At last, they came to

an agreement to gift Shawn the supplements to offset eighty thousand

from her poker debt.

Shawn was not even thinking about collecting the debt, so he thought he

had no reason to turn her away when she delivered to him herself.

Out of curiosity, he asked Abellyn quietly, “Are you related to Ms. Quillen,

who was in your uncle’s house the other day?”

Ryder was Emmanuel’s elder cousin, but Emmanuel’s father was older

than Ryder’s. Even more bizarre, Ryder was younger than Benny.

Ryder’s father had fathered him when the former was seventeen. Thus,

the difference in age between the two generations of the Lowe family had

always been a distinct oddity.

“She’s the wife of my cousin–in–law, Emmanuel. What about her? You don’t

have a crush on her, do you? You men are pigs!”

As she chided, Abellyn pinched Shawn on the waist.

Though she feared him, she was also trying to seduce him; she thought it

would be more worth her time to be with Shawn, the son of a rich man,

than to be with a pauper like Ryder.

did not! Don’t say that. I

afraid that the

some sort

a rich man’s son like Shawn did not dare

with somebody

the sight of his panic. “You were joking,

you not

keeping the gifts, and

debt written off. You’d better get going!”

her husband away, still reeling from the

of Terence Group had become a

going on?

Verkade

long–standing business relationship with

lost no opportunity to curry favor

himself.

Hubert coveted Mackenzie, having heard

had been relentlessly pursuing

gotten married?

of the matter, Shawn hurriedly sought an

pretense of

Verkade. Ms. Quillen

would spread such vile

his feet propped on the table, Hubert

impassively denied the veracity of those

not believe it.

a woman I play poker with,” Shawn

gossip that gets passed

for her misandry. Even I could

her. Do you think I wouldn’t find out if she

married?”

You have a point. That woman

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