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.”

was waiting for Sonia to concede defeat. “Would you

the cards again without a change in her expression. “We said that

 

treasuring it and pointing the gun at yourself. Tina is so good at poker that I

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

started a new

women, the spectators did not merely watch the game. While they snacked on the tidbits, they chatted

On Cynthia’s right

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

will return to Norfolk after the new year.” Melody threw her cards on the table loudly. With a frown, she added, “Peter Southfield wants to have a divorce. He’s back

didn’t the Southfield Family beg your grandfather to betroth you to him? They used your family name to accomplish many things. How

halfway through the sentence. Then, she merely gave a cold smile. “I’m not someone he can easily marry and

merely listened to them in the silence as she

in Seafield. She was only aware that they were quite influential in this city

to be arrogant only because of her 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

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

mention, Sonia wouldn’t have suffered such a shameful defeat

heard Cynthia saying, “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

quite shocked to hear that. “I heard that she was already engaged to

Sonia as she raised her voice. “That won’t happen again. President Fuller said that he has only invited a few friends to

Melody asked Tina. “Is that

she gave a gentle smile. “I’ve been in a coma for six years. Toby thinks that we have already delayed it for quite a long

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