The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 31

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.

investigated her three times. This is the final,

for your

the documents from his assistant and read

furrowed.

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

from an orphanage. No other details were available, not even regarding when

someone in this world that my genius hackers can’t investigate?

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

in his office, adding, “She’s deliberately hiding her true background from us. We’ll just be wasting our efforts investigating her. The only thing that’s certain is that her background isn’t

office and lit a cigarette, his gaze

“Boss, you have a

“Yes.”

and the three directors from Grandeur Group took turns toasting Gwendolyn at

refused a drink during their

promptly polished off six bottles of red

of liquor she had drunk, which added to her allure.

frustrated, even as she struggled to keep a clear

heavyweight at drinking. Even the directors are getting tipsy. How is she perfectly fine?

to

red wine and

her dinner companions a smile so beatific it

no choice but to

which they

everyone stop drinking? If that’s too much

raised her glass to toast

three directors hastily turned to Suzanna,

of wine, they would surely collapse and spend their

teeth in annoyance. Plying Gwendolyn with alcohol was no longer

her a packet of odorless, colorless powder

exchanged glances with Peter, who caught her hint

the production

is the latest version.

up to receive the documents from

the sound of glass

knocked Gwendolyn’s wine glass off the

“Oh my God, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean it, Ms. Shalders. I must be kind

colleague suspiciously but did not

shortly with a new wine glass, which she

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