Chapter 704

Marilla couldn’t even bring herself to look at the man before her, let alone respond to his words.

She hunched her shoulders, wishing she could just vanish into thin air

Jareth’s eyes were icy daggers, silently targeting the jovial face of Alston.

But Alston, seemingly oblivious to the hostility, reached out with a friendly hand to Marilla. “Hey Marilla, it’s me, Alston, remember? We were in the same class in junior high. Do you

With a slap!

Jareth’s gaze somber as he swatted the man’s hand

The atmosphere was tensed to extreme.

member me?”

away. “I believe my wife does not remember you”

Yet, hidden within, Edith couldn’t help but anicker to herself.

It seemed that messing with Jareth and teasing the idiot had become the sole joy in her life.

Alston nursed his stung fingertips, a flash of anger in his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure, staring intently at Marilla. “Marilla, you’re married to Mr. Fairhaven? How come I never saw any news about it?”

Before Jareth could speak, Edith Interjected, “Alston, you’ve just returned from abroad, there are a lot of things you don’t know. He and Marilla have been living together for quite a while now. Even if they are not married, they might as well be.”

She raised her voice for the last sentence deliberately.

All the surrounding and guests could hear her loud and clear!

“What? Marilla Abernathy, the precious daughter of the Abernathy Group, living with a man without being married? Even if she has lost her mother, isn’t her father Mr. Frederic still around? How could he stand for it?”

“Hey, that’s no ordinary man–that’s Jareth Fairhaven, heir to the Fairhaven Group!”

the field with all the power and wealth at his disposal, even if he were to divorce eight times, there’ll be women lining up.

too inexperienced, too naive, and too

gossip spreading was like a series of explosions by Marilla’s ears, drenching her

fierce gaze sweeping

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realization, “Oh,

do you

and the invites have been sent. Is your memory that short, or did a donkey kick your head? Marilla is my fiancée, the future matriarch of the Fairhaven

crowd murmured

face flushed with shame and anger, turning red and then pale.

stepping in, “Mr. Fairhaven, don’t you think you’re being a bit harsh? Edith is still

all.”

own damn business!” Jareth’s eyes blazed red with fury!

Alston, he had wanted to punch him.

half a word more, he didn’t care if

throw him down!

face turned an angry shade of purple as

lineage, with a long history of government officials. He was indeed

Alston was a man of stature and held back from retaliating against Jareth–for

Chapter 704

a mental note of the slight. There would be a

“Marilla, let’s go.”

around Marilla’s tense

“Marilla!”

“I’ve just gotten back from Aetheria not long ago, and I’m planning

trying to push away those unbearable memories from

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veins throbbing as he

much higher circle than yours. You’re not worthy of her attention.” Edith and Alston were frozen in place, their expressions so grim they could hardly look like a married couple.

Evadne and Thaddeus made their entrance, they instantly became

intention to overshadow everyone else, but

at Evadne, the women at Thaddeus. Such breathtaking individuals, rarely seen together in public, were like a pair

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