The Day I Kissed An Older Man

"Camille, how can you say that? She has a good mother who's ambitious. Even if Sadie wasn't born a Russell, she can still rise in the world."

The guests were quite audacious. After all, they were all from more powerful families than the Russells.

Rita had not expected things to escalate to this extent.

Camille fell silent.

"Alright, how long do we have to keep up this farce? Please, go home, all of you," said Rita.

Vince remained silent with a grim expression while Rita attended to the remaining guests. Karen, on the other hand, was too ashamed to lift her head. Even her carefully prepared tears had dried on her face. Having shared a bed with Vince for so many years, she knew that the thing he cared about the most in the world was his reputation.

passed, he

not to care. Deep down, however,

affable he tried to appear, he could not help but feel a surge of anger inside when someone exposed him like this in front of everyone in a dinner party he hosted

asked, "Do we

Even if it's an heirloom given by my late mother, it's not as important as Rita's reputation. Surely some naughty kid must ve taken it out to play and misplaced it. I't go back and have the family look for it again properly. What if it's just tucked away

misplaced your brain somewhere, too! You just had to go looking for that worthless bangle of yours in front of so many guests. Did I not buy you enough jewelry? Did I not wire you enough money? Why did you have to embarrass me in front of all of the

you're mistaken. I didn't mean to embarrass you. What if it was one of the guests' kids who

you can't just announce in front of so many guests that they should stay to help you find your stupid bangle! You've embarrassed me. Do you think

if you lost a bangle? I can buy you ten or even a hundred bangles, but what you shouldn't have done is cause a scene at the dinner