Chapter 148

After opening the door and walking in, Veronica waved at Xavier, who was standing across the door. “Come on in.”

Xavier glanced around the living room, which had a minimalist design. Nevertheless, because the area wasn‘t too spacious, it actually made the space look more warm and cozy with the dim, yellow light in the living room.

“It‘s pretty cozy here,” Xavier commented while walking into the living room to sit on the couch.

“Please make yourself at home.”

Veronica closed the door and took out a bottle of red wine from the wine cooler with a chuckle. “I stole this wine from Matthew‘s place. He said this is an aged wine.”

In fact, Veronica saw this aged wine on Matthew‘s wine cooler back when she was at Twilight Condominium, so she secretly kept it in her bedroom as she planned to devour it.

However, she got into an argument with Matthew later on, so she took it away together when she left the club.

Veronica shook the wine bottle in her hand and said, “Let‘s finish it.”

She loved drinking because when she was with Crayson back then, the latter loved bringing her around for drinks, so as time passed, she gradually got better at holding her liquor.

Nevertheless, Veronica did not realize that she had been drinking quite a lot in the last few months due to the pressure from various sources.

Xavier then took the red wine from Veronica‘s hand and smiled in spite of himself after checking the label. “I‘m afraid we can‘t drink this wine,” he said.

“Huh? Why? Is it because it‘s an aged wine? I can hold my drink, so that‘s not a problem.”

“This is not just any ordinary aged wine. This is a 1945 Romanée–Conti that was bought by someone at an exorbitant price of 3.9 million at New York‘s Sotheby‘s auction. I reckoned the buyer gave this to Matthew as a gift later on.”

Hearing thai, Veronica widened her eyes and was left dumbfounded. “What?! 3.9 million? What kind of wine would cost this much?!”

She knew aged wines were generally more expensive, but she did not expect this one to be so pricey.

1945. It was auctioned at an exorbitant price because it‘s made of the last portion of grapes in Domaine de la Romanée–Conti after World War II, and there were only

the background of this

to have attended the New

f*cking expensive!”

grab the wine back from Xavier. “A 1945 wine is not drinkable at all without decanting

wine discreetly out of curiosity. “How could it possibly be so expensive? No wonder

a minute... This is not the main point.

and had not expected that its value was actually sky–high. Will Matthew the jerk call the police?

jolted, she looked toward Xavier instantly and asked,

red wine

item. The minimum punishment is 10 years of imprisonment. In a more serious case, one could be sentenced to life imprisonment. Besides, the criminal‘s assets

freaked out and gulped. “Oh my goodness! Thank God we have not opened

wine cooler and said to Xavier, “It‘s getting late, so you should get going too. I also have some… I plan to head

attend to, but she did not say

Have a goodnight

With that, he was surprised to discover the truth as he did not expect it to be true

standing in front of the French window in Twilight Condominium while

a series of numbers that

did not call

cooler and opened a bottle of wine to fill his glass. Holding the wine glass between his skeletal, slender fingers, Matthew took a sip

the moment he lifted his head, he inadvertently realized the expensive red wine

his movements as his

second, it was as if he had found a

instantly disconnected

voice emerged from the other end of the line. “Hi, you have

to lodge a

wine

Romanée–Conti

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