Rebecca soon returned to the room.

Before she even saw Sonia’s cards, Rebecca could already guess what had transpired just by the ‘gentle’ smile on Tina’s face. Sonia must have suffered a harsh defeat when I was away.

Rebecca went to sit next to Sonia and shot a glance at the cards in Sonia’s hands. Again, they were not quite useful. Then, she asked in a low voice, “President Reed, the woman opposite of you is not any other woman. She’s your ex-husband’s lover. Are you really going to be defeated by her like this?”

“No worries. I just have to win three rounds out of five.” Sonia smiled. Since she sat down to play poker with them, she looked as peaceful as ever.

 

While she replied to Rebecca, she played yet another card.

“Game.” Tina placed her card down with a brighter smile on her face.

Rebecca was speechless to hear that.

“President Reed, you have already lost two rounds to Tina. I think there’s no need to continue,” Tina’s friend said pompously. “Tina is not a petty person. As long as you apologize to her, we will hire the best tattoo artist to remove the tattoo from your body.”

raised her head slightly as she looked at Sonia. It looked as though she was waiting for Sonia to concede defeat. “Would you like to continue, Miss Reed?” she asked in a gentle yet peaceful

again without a change in her expression. “We said that we could

 

you an opportunity, yet you are not treasuring it and pointing the gun at yourself. Tina

enough.” Tina stopped her friend, but she looked at Sonia vindictively. “Since Miss Reed would like to continue with the game, I will follow her wishes

started a new

the room were only women, the spectators did not merely watch the game. While they snacked on

Stone. On Cynthia’s right was Sonia while Melody

an orange and passed it to Melody ingratiatingly. “Melody, how long are you going to

the new year.” Melody threw her cards on the table loudly. With a frown, she added, “Peter

beg your grandfather to betroth you to him? They used your family name

merely gave a cold smile. “I’m not someone he can easily marry and divorce! I want to see

to them in the silence as she

that they were quite influential in this city with almost as much authority as the Stryder Family in

grandfather, who was a minister, supporting her. Even if she was married to

did not encounter that tragic accident which claimed the lives of all its members when Sonia married Toby, Jean would have had

wouldn’t have suffered such a shameful defeat

“Tina will be engaged to President Fuller on New Year’s Eve and she’s planning to invite us to her place for dinner. Since you will still be in Seafield at that time, we will have a celebration

that. “I heard that she was already engaged to him. Why

plan, but someone stole Tina’s engagement necklace. What disgusting behavior!” Cynthia responded pointedly and shot a glance at Sonia as she raised her voice. “That won’t happen again. President Fuller said that he has only invited a few friends to the Fuller Residence for dinner. Apart from that,

Valentine’s Day?” Melody

been in a coma for six years. Toby thinks that we have already delayed it for

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