Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

The atmosphere in the grand hall of the city hall was tense and serious. The audience was comprised of important officials and business representatives from Solana City and all across the nation.

At that moment, Orlander Hodgson was delivering a keynote speech onstage. Members of Congress and business representatives sat in the front rows, while family members like Daisy were arranged to be seated in the back.

As the only daughter of the Schmidt family, Daisy was especially important in high society. Still, today's event was mostly their husbands' arena. As a spouse, she had no say in the event.

An attention-seeker, she was displeased at the treatment at the event, especially knowing that she was the reason behind Timothy's career success.

Without the support of the Schmidt Group, the guidance of Victor Schmidt, and her meticulously crafted public persona, Timothy would never have achieved success smoothly.

The more she thought over it, the happier she felt. It took her mind off the horrible feeling upon learning of Timothy's multiple affairs.

One day, she vowed to be seated in the front row as the mayor's wife. With that in mind, she straightened up in her seat with a haughty demeanor.

around her exchanged gossip. "Look at that smug expression on her face! All I could see was her

hasn't kicked off yet, but she

her

important because she's a Schmidt, but she has lost her social standing after marrying into the Clemons family. Rumors had it that she begged her family for money to finance her husband's electoral campaign. Because of that, the Schmidts are annoyed at her, but she still walks around feeling good about

have confidence in Clemons. He looks like a corrupted man. If

seriously. To her, the guests were envious of her social standing

the stage and announced, "Let's welcome Congressman Timothy Clemons, who will introduce the three-year commercial

Daisy nearly stood up to clap for him, too eager to show off

radiantly and began, "Ladies and gentlemen, next, I

screen. Concern clouded his initially cheerful face. He appeared as though he was struck by