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.

to think clearly. However, after years had passed, he finally came to his senses. He knew that many people

not to care. Deep down, however, he cared

matter how 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 in his

asked, "Do we still need to

and she forced herself to say, "Forget it. Even if it's an heirloom given by my late mother, it's not as important as Rita's reputation. Surely some

it on the children's mischief? You must've misplaced your brain somewhere, too! You just had to go looking for that worthless bangle of yours in front of so many guests. Did

was one of the guests' kids who took my

your bangle is precious, you can't just announce in front of so many guests that they should

wealthy, and your bangle is just chump change to us! We don't want or need your money. So what if you lost a bangle? I can buy you ten or even a hundred bangles, but what you shouldn't have done is cause