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.”

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

in her expression. “We said that we could play five

 

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

vindictively. “Since Miss Reed would like to continue with the

started a

the spectators did not merely watch the game.

On Cynthia’s right was

and passed it to Melody ingratiatingly. “Melody, how long are you going to stay in Seafield this time? Are

Melody threw her cards on the table loudly. With a frown, she added, “Peter Southfield wants to have a divorce. He’s back here to

carefully skirted around the topic. “Back then, didn’t the Southfield Family beg your grandfather to betroth you to him? They used your family name to accomplish many things.

remembered something and stopped elaborating halfway through the sentence. Then, she merely gave a cold smile. “I’m not someone he can easily marry and divorce! I want to see

listened to them in the silence as she lowered her

only aware that they were quite influential in

powerful background and her grandfather, who was a minister, supporting her. Even if she was married to the Southfield Family that was of equal standing to her family, it was the Southfield Family

which claimed the lives of all its members when Sonia married Toby, Jean would have had

have suffered such a shameful defeat in her

heard Cynthia saying, “Tina will be engaged to President Fuller on New Year’s Eve and

that she was already engaged to him. Why are they doing

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

Valentine’s Day?” Melody asked Tina.

that we have already delayed it for quite

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