Chapter 86

Emily couldn’t help but speak up. “Mr. Lodge, something about this doesn’t feel right.”

Ariana was acting completely out of character.

One moment, she refused to lift a finger, and the next, she was happily cooking in the kitchen. It was hard not to feel suspicious.

“What doesn’t feel right?” Brian replied dismissively. “With Ariana, all you need is money and power, and she’ll fall in line. A woman like that, hmph.

It was already 8:00 pm when Brian came downstairs.

Ariana placed the final dish on the table and removed her apron.

“Go upstairs, change your clothes, then come back down,” Brian commanded.

Ariana raised an eyebrow. “Where are the clothes?”

“Ms. Torrey, these are your clothes,” a maid replied, handing Ariana a maid’s uniform.

Ariana immediately recognized the humiliation Brian was trying to impose.

He had expected her to throw a tantrum, but to his surprise, she simply took the uniform without a word and went upstairs.

“Mr. Lodge…”

though Mrs. Lodge Senior isn’t here,

so be it,” Brian

stepping stone for the Lodge family’s connections. She’s nothing but a bankrupt heiress; what dignity does she

just as

and saw that the visitor was indeed Mr. Dalton, the overseas

William and Brian had been competing fiercely to win over Mr. Dalton.

an eyebrow.

Dalton for a dinner party on this very day, all in an effort to win the business

a variety of dishes, trying to satisfy Mr. Dalton’s discerning

meticulous efforts paid off, and Mr.

this time, things were different.

went upstairs to

hange her clothes.

the dishes set out on

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be such a connoisseur.

chef, as a gesture of our sincerity

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