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.

Don’t say that. I

denied vehemently, deathly afraid that

to some

rich man’s son like Shawn did not dare indulge in

with somebody

the sight of his panic. “You were

do you not dare

keeping

off. You’d better get

and her husband away, still reeling

of Terence Group had

is going on?

father had business with Verkade

business

opportunity to curry favor with Hubert,

himself.

knew very well that Hubert

been relentlessly pursuing Mackenzie.

gotten married?

bottom of the

pretense of delivering a

Mr. Verkade. Ms. Quillen is married, it

such

on the table, Hubert was savoring his

the veracity of those words.

not believe it.

I play

you actually believe the gossip that gets

for her misandry. Even I could not approach

Do you think I wouldn’t find out if she

married?”

have a point. That woman shares

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