The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 31 Heavyweight Drinker

Suzanna’s smile froze at Gwendolyn’s question, but she quickly composed herself and smiled even more brightly.

She pulled Gwendolyn aside and whispered, “These directors are influential figures in Grandeur Group. One word from any of them would make or break our artists‘ casting opportunities in the drama. So try not to upset them, Ms. Shalders.”

Gwendolyn nodded expressionlessly in response.

They returned to the table after their whispering.

Tom, Harry, and Peter had not stopped staring at Gwendolyn since she entered the private room. Gwendolyn wanted to throw up under their lustful stares.

Tom was the first to speak up. “Ms. Shalders, you’re really as pretty as the rumors say. You’ve got a great figure too.”

“You’re too generous. The three of you are truly exceptional and successful,” replied Gwendolyn obligingly.

Suzanna quickly invited everyone to take their seats before toasting Gwendolyn, “This is your first business meeting since joining the company, Ms. Shalders. Please allow me to toast to a successful deal.”

As she spoke, she pushed a glass of red wine into Gwendolyn’s hand.

Gwendolyn swirled the liquor around the glass and sniffed the bouquet elegantly. “Hmm, a 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild. What an excellent wine.”

She smiled and clinked glasses with Suzanna before polishing off the wine in a single gulp.

Harry jumped in to flatter Gwendolyn, praising, “Ms. Shalders, I didn’t take you for a wine aficionado. You can hold your drinks well too. How utterly charming. I hope you’ll accept my toast as well.”

“Aren’t we discussing the casting for Grandeur Group’s drama project? Why haven’t any of you brought the subject up?” asked Gwendolyn.

Calmly, one of the directors replied, “Of course, we’ll get to it, but we should have a few glasses and relax before getting down to serious business. I’m sure you understand how this works, don’t you, Ms. Shalders?”

They smiled at Gwendolyn and raised their glasses at her.

Gwendolyn did not put off their requests and downed glass after glass of wine.

Meanwhile, Noah knocked on the door to the CEO’s office at Wright Construction Group.

He entered the room and politely handed a dossier on Gwendolyn’s background to Maverick.

her three times. This

background for

the documents from his assistant and read

furrowed.

glance, Gwendolyn’s background seemed perfectly ordinary until it came to her life

other details were available, not even regarding when she was first brought to the

this world that my genius hackers can’t investigate?

sense his employer’s doubts and asked, “Do you want them

adding, “She’s deliberately hiding her true background from us. We’ll just be wasting our

strolled to the long windows in his office and lit a cigarette, his gaze

on an iPad and asked, “Boss, you have a dinner meeting tonight, which was booked a week ago.

“Yes.”

directors from Grandeur Group took turns toasting Gwendolyn at

drink during

polished off six bottles of red

flushed despite the amount of liquor she had drunk, which added to her allure. Her gaze, however,

even as she struggled

Even the directors are getting tipsy. How is she

to collapse at

wine and downed it when the others stopped pouring

her dinner companions a smile so beatific it bordered

no choice but

sight which

turned the tables on them and asked, “Why did everyone stop drinking? If that’s too much liquor to handle,

even raised her glass to toast

turned to Suzanna, signaling her to

of wine, they would

annoyance. Plying Gwendolyn with alcohol was no longer

before she came, Eloise had given her a packet of odorless, colorless powder to guarantee the success

caught her hint and

the production plan for our

spoke, he took out some documents and handed them to Gwendolyn, explaining. “This is the latest

up to receive the documents from

glass

wine glass off the

didn’t mean it, Ms. Shalders. I must be kind of tipsy. Let me

her colleague suspiciously but did not stop her

glass, which she filled with red wine before handing it