Chapter 18 A Toast to You

Dressed in haute couture, Gigi stood behind Jean with a few women in similar clothing.

She looked astonished as if she had seen something that shouldn’t be there.

Jean wasn’t expecting to see her there.

Other than her frenemies, Gigi was accompanied by an unexpected person.

He was Edgar’s friend, Nathan Knox.

In her two years of marriage with Edgar, Jean only met him a few times. As a result, she wasn’t familiar with him.

Nathan frowned as he looked at Jean in her slip-dress. He hesitated.

“Jean, are you… working here?”

He spoke carefully, but Jean felt a piercing pain in her heart.

It was true that Jean Eyer of the Eyer Group had lost her position and ended up in such a place.

And who should I thank for this?

Jean kept quiet. Nathan took her silence as a yes. His heart sank as he stepped between her and the man.

“Does Edgar know that you’re here?”

“Mr. Knox, I’m no longer married to him. Am I supposed to report my daily routine to my ex-husband?”

the day. Naturally, he would have heard

he could say

you need? I can lend it to you. If you work in

Reece, we do not condone unscrupulous business here. What

The manager interrupted.

job, the manager would be in trouble for spreading the word that

Jean laughed.

recommended it to me in the

reveal the fact. Her

Gigi’s friends exchanged looks.

Ms. Eyer is working here,

let the

it first come, first served? You know what’s the reasonable thing to

aren’t thinking of taking Cindy away from you. What

flitted across

from ear to ear.

all Ms. Reece’s friends!

types of people but didn’t expect them to treat Jean that

that they

when things turn out badly!” Nathan choked on his words. “Jean, you’ve let

looked at her and

had achieved her aim—to make everyone surrounding Edgar look down

her caring act and

time and

loud. He eyed Jean, eager to

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